Product Management Lead

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Product Management Lead for the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), who will be based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), near Cambridge, UK. This is a varied role providing an opportunity to collaborate with a global community of leaders in genomics, computing and medicine, working toward delivering the full benefit of genomics in healthcare. GA4GH is the international standards setting organisation in human genomics IT which is run as a collaboration between a not-for-profit Canadian company and five Host Institutions: the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine at McGill University, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and EMBL-EBI.

GA4GH brings together contributors from healthcare, research, patient advocacy, life science, and information technology to create frameworks and standards to enable the responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and health-related data. GA4GH standards include file formats for largescale genomic data, services for executing analytical workflows in varied compute environments, models for phenotypic and clinical data capable of integrating with electronic health records, and methods for secure data access.

You will be part of and help manage the globally distributed GA4GH staff team, a matrix organisation of approximately 20 team members. The Product Management Lead has primary responsibility for the processes and practices, which we define to achieve the development of GA4GH products consistent with strategy defined by the GA4GH CEO and Executive Committee. You will define the technical priorities of the organisation, confirm the roadmaps defined by the GA4GH Work Streams, and guide the activities of the broader network of GA4GH volunteers and assigned experts.

As the Product Management Lead, you will be a global leader and a champion for GA4GH standards and policy frameworks, representing the organisation and helping to set the global genomics interoperability agenda. You will ensure that GA4GH is a credible standards development organisation (SDO) in the eyes of regulators, researchers, healthcare, industry, and more. Global professional experience is a priority for the position.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Your role

The key duties and responsibilities of this role include:

• Lead the development of GA4GH technical standards and work to support implementation of the standards in the context of strategic priorities and operational plans
• Liaise with security, regulatory, and ethics leadership to ensure alignment between the technical and foundational product roadmaps
• Build peer relationships with leadership in the research, biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, and related industries, as well as with other Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)
• With guidance from GA4GH senior leadership, opinion leaders, and key stakeholders; describe, maintain, and update a vision for genomic harmonisation, positioning GA4GH as the global leader in genomic standards and policy framework development
• Help guide the genomics community toward a collaborative culture that balances the needs of regulators, GA4GH community members, the clinical community, and other stakeholders so that GA4GH products are broadly accepted and utilised across geographic regions, disease areas, and ethnic groups
• Drive consensus among international colleagues, often by leveraging nuanced conflict resolution skills;
• Serve as a spokesperson and champion for GA4GH with key stakeholders, including clinical, research, and computational audiences, regularly speaking at international conferences and symposia
• Alongside the Director of Strategy and Engagement, support the CEO to ensure GA4GH delivers on its overall commitments to funders and the community
• Help ensure consistency across GA4GH products and processes
• Manage and develop a strong motivated GA4GH staff team at EMBL-EBI
• Establish and maintain critical partnerships with GA4GH’s UK-based host institutions and strategic partners, and their respective communities
• Oversee the UK-based aspects of GA4GH’s international budget
• Serve on boards, colloquia, and committees, both internally and externally representing GA4GH
• Serve as a member of the GA4GH management team, providing clear, accurate, and timely information; listening attentively; engaging with executive committee members; promoting harmony across the distributed staff team; and supporting full execution of the organisation’s Strategic Plan
• Alongside GA4GH’s senior management, oversee an internationally distributed staff team of developers, project managers, and policy analysts from diverse backgrounds who take day-to-day direction from mid-level team leads

In all activities and communications, serve as a champion of GA4GH efforts and demonstrate a lasting commitment to open genomic standards.