Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Chemistry Products | Cheminformatics

Location, Availability, Experience:

Location: Remote, UK/US/CAN/Central Europe/Poland preferred

Time Zone Availability: Must be available for UK/US East Coast hours

Experience: 8+ Years of Product Management Experience

About Xebia

With over 20 years of experience, our global network of passionate technologists and pioneering craftsmen deliver cutting-edge technology and game-changing consulting to companies on the brink of transformation. Since 2001, we have grown from a Java company into a full-service digital consulting company with 4500+ professionals working on a worldwide ambition.

We are organized in complementary chapters – teams with a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience within a particular field, such as Agile, DevOps, Data and AI, Cloud, Software Technology, Functional Programming, Low Code, and Microsoft.

We help the world’s top 250 companies and category leaders overcome digital challenges, embrace innovation, adopt new technology, and implement new business models. In addition to high-quality consulting, we also provide offshoring and nearshoring services.

For more details please visit www.xebia.com

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager specializing in Chemistry Products | Cheminformatics to lead our product transformation efforts in the life sciences domain. This senior role requires deep expertise in cheminformatics and the ability to drive strategic product initiatives while managing complex stakeholder relationships.

In this position, you'll manage software products that serve computational chemists, medicinal chemists, and drug discovery scientists. Your products may include molecular design and visualization platforms, chemical structure databases and search tools, compound property prediction systems, reaction planning and synthesis design applications, and molecular simulation and docking platforms. You'll be responsible for understanding how chemists work—from hit identification and lead optimization to ADME/Tox prediction—and translating these complex scientific workflows into product requirements that balance user needs with technical feasibility.

The ideal candidate understands the cheminformatics landscape, including molecular descriptors, fingerprints, similarity searching, and structure-activity relationships. You'll work closely with computational chemists and wet-lab scientists to ensure products deliver meaningful scientific value, while also driving the modernization of legacy chemistry applications into scalable, cloud-based platforms that integrate with broader drug discovery pipelines.

What You’ll Do:

Product Knowledge Transfer

Document existing product knowledge, including use cases, usage metrics, business processes, technical specifications, and documentation
Capture and document non-functional product knowledge

Business Analysis

Analyze current product landscape, use cases, business processes and customer needs
Propose transformation strategies for existing legacy products

Product Requirement Development

Follow existing processes to develop comprehensive product requirements
Deliver product requirement documents according to assigned priority and timeline

Business Stakeholder Management

Serve as the primary point of contact for business requests for assigned products
Map relevant stakeholders (influence, needs, communication frequency) and develop tailored engagement strategies
Execute stakeholder engagement strategies with agreed objectives
Attend planning sessions, stand-ups, and Agile ceremonies

Product Development Management

Fulfill Product Manager responsibilities during product development phases
Actively participate in planning sessions, stand-ups, and Agile ceremonies

Requirements:

Essential

Core Skills

Strong business use case analysis capabilities
Experience conducting user interviews
Proven stakeholder mapping and management abilities
Excellent requirements documentation writing skills
Working knowledge of software product development
Working knowledge of Cloud technologies
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
Proven agile development experience
Experienced user of Jira and Confluence

Specialty Focus Required

Cheminformatics expertise required
Deep understanding of chemistry software workflows and computational chemistry applications
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and scientific users in the chemistry domain

Recommended

Scientific Background & Technical Chemistry Expertise – Technical Product Management

Background in Chemistry, computational chemistry, or related scientific discipline
Expertise in chemical compounding, simulations, and computational prediction
Ability to understand and synthesize chemical characteristics
Experience collaborating with in-lab chemists and scientists for scientific readouts
Familiarity with Schrödinger products (lab design, data flow enablement, ordering process improvement)
Experience enabling data flows and improving ordering processes from external vendors

Other

Experience in pharmaceutical or regulated industry environments

Understanding of authentication systems (SSO, LDAP)
Knowledge of zero-downtime deployment strategies
Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) environments
Background in managing external vendor relationships and integration points
Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform services and architecture
Understanding of security and compliance requirements in enterprise environments
Certification in relevant cloud technologies (GCP, etc.)
Experience migrating HPC workloads to cloud environments (specifically GCP)
Knowledge of GCP's HPC-specific offerings and configurations
Familiarity with scientific or research computing applications common in pharmaceutical environments
Understanding of data movement challenges specific to large scientific datasets

While the talent scarcity within IT is at an all-time high and still growing, Xebia sticks to the mission of “aiming for thought leadership”, thus working with the best professionals in the market.

At Xebia, you will get the chance to work with passionate professionals within their field of expertise. We offer more than just a job, we offer a career. We are looking forward to working with you!

Xebia is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in North America, and to complete any required employment eligibility forms.