Associate Director – AI Automation Product Manager Full-time

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Are you passionate about driving innovation and efficiency through automation? We are seeking an AI Automation Product Manager to lead the charge in redefining our business processes. Join us and be at the forefront of innovative technology, where your strategic vision and leadership will shape the future of our product offerings. Apply now and propel your career to new heights with our dynamic team!

What you’ll be doing

As part of a collaborative team of versatile professionals focused on clinical development, you will lead the delivery of the strategy and roadmap for your products to deliver business results and financial objectives. You will focus on collaborating with technical, business, and financial partners to set priorities, lead new development and operations, and provide direction and oversight to product teams.

How you will succeed

• Employ deep understanding of business needs and processes to advise product priorities and improvement recommendations.
• Foster strong relationships with product stakeholders and customers.
• Strategize, plan, and lead all aspects of product development from inception to market launch.
• Monitor business, market, and technology trends to guide product strategy and proactively propose new solutions.
• Establish product roadmaps and release plans that satisfy requirements and achieve business outcomes.
• Translate business needs into detailed product specifications.
• Monitor and evaluate product performance and proactively champion product improvements.
• Develop and implement resource strategies to line up with the skill requirements of product teams, ensuring successful delivery of product roadmaps.
• Proactively identify and resolve impediments to achieve business objectives for the product, including technical and resourcing challenges.
• Uphold alignment to organizational, fiscal, and IT standards, including architecture, regulatory compliance, and security protocols.
• Increase the adoption and consumption of product capabilities.
• Employ a return-on-investment methodology to improve product value.
• Serve as product manager for multiple, related products.
• Establish and supervise key product metrics to gauge performance and align with business goals and strategic direction.

What you will bring

• Expertise in critical thinking and business area domain knowledge.
• Keen ability to understand end user and customer needs.
• Strong skills for building relationships and trust across diverse partners and customers.
• Demonstrated success in defining, building, and managing products.
• Strong collaboration and coordination skills to effectively deliver value across multiple related products simultaneously.
• Experience identifying product resource requirements (e.g., people, funding) across the lifetime of a product.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated the ability to communicate sophisticated information in a condensed manner to various team members verbally and in writing.
• Advanced knowledge of agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum).
• Familiarity with agile project management software such as JIRA and Confluence is preferred.
• Product owner certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner).

Your Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or an equivalent field.
• 5+ years of technology program leadership experience with expertise in industry standard methodologies
• 2+ years of experience in similar product leadership roles with technology, including experience with enterprise technology programs

Additional Information

• Position requires work schedule flexibility, availability outside of regular business hours as needed to support business critical activities.
• Travel Percentage: 0-10%

Organization Overview

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

Research Tech unites science with technology to accelerate the Research and Development of medicines and to deliver therapeutic innovations. The team leverages technology and platforms to streamline scientific experimentation to help Researchers follow the science, to understand the disease and identify potential therapies. They are at the forefront of advanced analytics to enable data driven drug discovery; to innovate so Scientists can rapidly analyze and accelerate the discovery of new medicines.

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