Location: Barcelona - Spain (3 days working from the office and 2 days working from home)

Introduction to the role

Typical Accountabilities
- Engage business leaders to surface high-value use-cases for data products under your remit; convert those needs into clear product charters, north-star metrics, and release plans.
- Partner with architecture and engineering leads to design solution blueprints that blend structured data assets, unstructured document repositories, and advanced AI services and related tooling
- Drive agile ceremonies, backlog prioritisation, and sprint planning, ensuring every user story is testable, regulatory compliant, and traceable to business value.
- Protect and enhance data quality by embedding robust stewardship practices and metadata management across structured clinical data and document-derived entities.
- Define product KPIs (e.g., query success rate, time-to-insight, document-extraction precision) and manage benefit realisation against agreed targets.
- Lead change-management, communication, and training efforts so that clinicians, trial managers,



and data scientists rapidly adopt new features and workflows.
- Identify and mitigate risks spanning technical feasibility, ethics, regulatory constraints (ICH E6(R3), GDPR), and model-governance requirements.

Education, Qualifications,Skillsand Experience

Essential
- Fluent in product-management principles, agile and DevOps ways-of-working; skilled at gathering and documenting technical requirements, data mapping, user stories, and process flows.
- Strong technical background and familiarity with foundational data-engineering topics such as data modelling, data lakes, and APIs.
- Ability to explain transformer models, vector search, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation at a level sufficient to align with architects and data scientists.
- A bachelor’s degree in a scientific, technical, or quantitative discipline is required.
- Proficiency in English (spoken and written

📌 Associate Director, Data Products, Operational Data Strategy (Barcelona)
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📍 Barcelona