Senior Technical Product Manager

With over 35 nationalities and a range of backgrounds represented in our Benevolent team, we aim to build an inclusive environment where our people can bring their authentic selves to work, be respected for who they are and the exceptional work they do. We welcome and actively encourage applications from all sections of society and are committed to offering equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, disability, age, citizenship, or any other basis. We see our diversity as an asset as we tackle challenging problems that bridge the gap between drug discovery and technology.

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The Role

As Product Manager for Knowledge, you will work with the Product Area Lead contributing towards defining the BenevolentAI data pipeline, ETL, and data access strategy, identifying our informatician and engineer user needs and setting the product objectives of your team and collaborate with our ML Engineering team to develop state of the art NLP algorithms for extracting biological data from text.

We are keen to hear from technical Product Managers with experience working with data engineering and AI/ML-focussed teams with experience in multimodal data including; structured, experimental, and NLP-derived and with a proven track record building technical products that create significant impact for their users.

Challenging and meaningful, this role will give you a chance to bring your own experience, ideas, and creativity to push forward exciting projects quickly with the chance to try genuinely new ways to find medicines.

Primary Responsibilities

Leads the requirements definition of our data ingestion, quality and accessibility pipelines and APIs and captures technical (engineering and data scientist) user needs that help maximise the value and use of our data.
Leads the requirements definition of our NLP algorithms
Develops frameworks to evaluate and validate NLP algorithm output
Responds to the engineering and data science needs ensuring our products are addressing the KPIs and maximising the connections between end-users and data engineering experts.
Manages multi-disciplinary squads responsible for the creation of solutions that directly impact our knowledge graph.
Runs agile product management of squads.
Owns, prioritises and promotes the feature requests from engineers and data scientists to improve the quality and coverage of our knowledge graph
Understands working with multimodality data including
Structured ontology-based
NLP-derived
Experimentally-derived
Employs a user-driven approach to identify user needs and ensures senior stakeholders and the broader business understand the value of this approach.
Leads the measurement and validation of our data products and features.

Additional Responsibilities

Develops and maintains a solid foundation of market knowledge in the area, proactively identifies potential issues/risks.
Employs a user-driven approach to identify user needs and ensures senior stakeholders and the broader business understand the value of this approach.
As a senior member of the Product Management team, contributes to defining an effective product management process that can scale as the business continues to grow.

We are looking for someone with

A BSc in a technical field (engineering, maths, physics) or equivalent technical experience.
2+ years experience as a Technical Product Manager.
Experience leading technical teams with a strong AI/ML component.
Experience leading technical teams and a deep understanding of ETL pipelines.
Experience with both structured and NLP-derived data.
Experience capturing complex user needs and improving user experience from multidisciplinary end users.
Experience in a commercial and agile environment.
Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle,
Excellent communicator, both verbal and written, with the ability to influence at all levels inside an organisation.

Nice to haves

Pharmaceutical or biomedical experience is a plus.

We share a passion for being part of a mission that matters, and we are always looking for curious and collaborative people who share our values and want to be part of our journey. If that sounds like a fit for you, hit the apply button and join us.

About us

BenevolentAI unites AI with human expertise to discover new and more effective medicines. Our unique computational R&D platform spans every step of the drug discovery process, powering an in-house pipeline of over 25 drug programmes. We advance our mission to reinvent drug discovery by harnessing the power of a diverse team, rich with different backgrounds, experiences, opinions and personalities. In our offices in London and New York and research facility in Cambridge (UK), we work in highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams, harnessing skills across biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, machine learning, informatics, precision medicine and drug discovery.

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