Senior Staff IT Product Lead (Digital Applications)

Location: Alameda, California, United States; occasional travel to company sites, conferences, or vendor locations may be required.

Base salary: $190,000–$239,500 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops innovative medicines and supports digital capabilities across drug discovery, development, commercialization, and market access.

What you will do

• Lead the strategy, roadmaps, architecture, and lifecycle delivery of two or more digital products.
• Gather user needs, define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product priorities.
• Lead agile collaboration with engineering, architecture, QA, IT operations, business stakeholders, vendors, and service providers.
• Improve user experience through usability testing and end-user research while monitoring product KPIs.
• Maintain application stability, performance, security, quality, data reliability, and compliance.
• Support data management, AI, intelligent automation, and third-party software practices across digital products.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with 9 years of related experience, or a master’s degree in mathematics, statistics, or engineering with 7 years of related experience, or a PhD in a related discipline with 5 years of related experience; equivalent combinations may be considered.
• At least 5 years supporting enterprise IT business functions and 7+ years of progressive IT experience focused on digital applications or product management in life sciences or pharmaceuticals.
• Experience leading product development teams in an agile or product-centric operating model.
• Strong understanding of drug discovery, clinical development, or commercialization within a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company.
• Experience defining and delivering complex digital products with significant business value.
• Experience with relevant SaaS or cloud platforms, such as Veeva, Salesforce, AWS, or Azure, or pharma systems such as LIMS, SAP ERP, EDC, CTMS, or CRM.
• Experience with GxP regulatory frameworks and compliance, plus knowledge of Patient Assistance Programs, GPO rebates, government pricing programs, and commercial contracting.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT, data lakes, data warehousing, dbt or other data orchestration, CRM, business intelligence, master data management, AI, and intelligent automation.
• Exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, problem-solving, communication, presentation, collaboration, product management, technical architecture, and prioritization skills.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of industry data providers such as IQVIA, Symphony Health, Komodo, MMIT, Definitive Healthcare, or similar ecosystems.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-based work in a collaborative environment with equipment including dual monitors and ergonomic chairs.
• Comprehensive employee benefits including 401(k) contributions, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and flexible spending coverage.
• Annual discretionary bonus or sales-based incentive eligibility, company stock purchase opportunities, and long-term incentives.
• Fifteen accrued vacation days in the first year, 17 paid holidays including a company-wide winter shutdown, and up to 10 sick days annually.
• Occasional travel of approximately 5–10% may be required.