Associate Product Manager

About the Role

This position is for an Associate Product Manager in the Cancer Diagnostics Division, located in Madison, WI. The role involves partnering with product and business teams to define solutions aligned with customer needs and business objectives. The Associate Product Manager will support product teams on projects of low complexity and gain hands-on experience through design reviews and walkthroughs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with business partners.
• Collect high-level requirements and capture business needs for low-complexity requirements for specific product areas.
• Translate business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements with senior team member support, using a structured process.
• Learn to conduct experience and technical discovery with support from business partners, experience design, research, and technical teams.
• Refer to project requirements according to the requirements management plan.
• Learn about application and solution delivery by participating in design reviews and walkthroughs to communicate requirements and validate proposed solutions.
• Complete preliminary review of product design documentation to ensure requirements are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Assist in generating use cases/user stories to ensure all functional requirements are captured.
• Draft and perform activities, with oversight, including user story writing and grooming, requirements analysis, and functional specification writing.
• Mine data to inform system process flow decisions and document tactical requirements.
• Provide proactive and regular communication regarding cross-functional project status, issues, risks, and problems.
• Support user acceptance testing and user training.
• Proactively provide process improvement recommendations within a quickly evolving company.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs.
• Experience working on Agile development teams (preferred).
• Experience in life science, healthcare, bioinformatics, wellness, or digital health (preferred).
• Some knowledge of digital analytics tools (preferred).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Marketing, Business, Finance or a related field; OR High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to operate in a cross-cultural and complex matrixed environment to build consensus across functions.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.