Technical Product Manager (Data & ML), Lausanne

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Analytical and Problem solving, Data Analysis, Drug Discovery, Effective communication skills, Machine learning techniques, Product Management, Teamwork

Job Description

Are you known for unwavering user focus, simplifying complexity, translating hard real-world problems into technology that solves them at their core? Would you like to apply your incredible skills to a product area that will improve the quality of life for millions of people around the globe?

Isomorphic Labs is a new Alphabet company that is reimagining drug discovery through a computational- and AI-first approach. 

We are on a mission to accelerate the speed, increase the efficacy and lower the cost of drug discovery. You'll be working at the cutting edge of the new era of 'digital biology' to deliver a transformative social impact for the benefit of millions of people. 

Come and be part of a multi-disciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring, collaborative and entrepreneurial culture.

Your impact 

We’re looking for a Product Manager who is passionate about the use of AI research and software development to solve complex scientific problems in the life sciences. This is a unique opportunity to apply cutting edge AI research in root-cause scientific exploration to bring huge potential impacts to the world. You will have an entrepreneurial drive, with the ability to achieve ambitious goals in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

There is some degree of flexibility around the level of seniority in these positions; this will depend on your skills and experience.

What you will do 

Product Vision

• Drive the creation of a data strategy incorporating the needs of platform users and the rapidly advancing research
• Define the datasets and the process to ingest, process and analyse data at scale to ensure models have the information they need to build rich representations of biological systems
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand requirements and build an expert understanding of users and state of the art ML models
• Work with ML researchers to bring open-ended learning paradigms into drug design and establish real-world feedback mechanisms to enable active learning
• Work entrepreneurially alongside outstanding AI researchers, scientists and engineers to identify new product opportunities, that are aligned with the company’s research and applied goals around reimagining drug discovery 
• Incubate and launch new platform capabilities in close collaboration with users and the engineering team
• Understand the needs of IsoLabs' ML scientists and work with them to define a research platform roadmap that will accelerate breakthroughs and enable experimentation at scale

Product Delivery

• Partner with chemists/biologists and ML researchers to identify the data they need and define a data regime that is effective across multiple use-cases
• Perform data analysis with experts to uncover data quality issues and build long term frameworks to guard against this
• Work closely with users to integrate their feedback into product requirements, driving prioritisation and building out the product with the technical teams 
• Partner with tech ops to provide a robust, scalable and extensible foundation for the platform
• Ensure focus on product milestones of cross-functional teams of technical, scientific and business stakeholders
• Support product related communications across teams, partners and stakeholders 
• Support the product lead to rigorously and transparently prioritise while balancing the needs of users and stakeholders

Skills and qualifications 

Essential:

• Product management experience including driving early stage product vision and cross-functional projects with advanced ML teams
• Familiarity with data lakes, ML platforms, feature stores and microservice architecture
• Passionate about using data and ML to solve impactful problems
• Familiarity with software architecture in a cloud environment
• Ability to engage and contribute in technical discussions with engineers, researchers, partners and stakeholders
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change, knowing when to leverage data and insights to make decisions
• Experience in iterative testing and building the product together with users

Nice to have:

• Demonstrated success in delivering high quality research impact
• Experience of modern machine learning and AI methods
• Experience presenting and influencing at executive level
• Experience with forcefield creation
• Experience using the latest ML methods
• Familiarity with AlphaFold
• Experience running jobs on Cloud-based infrastructure at scale