Product Lead – Digital Labs R&D
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Product Lead Digital Labs - R&D
Cambridge UK
About AstraZeneca
Now is the time to be part of accelerating AstraZenecas growth and feel your contribution. We unite our technologies tools and platforms with our collective expertise to drive our transformational journey forward. It means we are able to better interpret data and make better data decisions.
Come and join our AZ team where you will play a pivotal role in this exciting period of development!
As the Product Lead Digital Labs - R&D you will be responsible for the end-to-end vision strategy and value realisation of our Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) capability across Early Science. You will combine strong product leadership technical depth and business insight to deliver a best-in-class ELN experience that accelerates scientific discovery and ensures high-quality FAIR experimental data. Partnering closely with research scientists domain SMEs data and architecture teams and IT operations you will lead a product team to design implement and continuously improve ELN capabilities using Revvity Signals Notebook integrated within our broader Digital Lab ecosystem. Your leadership will span a global matrixed organization aligning divergent workflows and stakeholder needs into a cohesive product roadmap that delivers measurable scientific and operational outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Set product vision and strategy: Define and communicate the multi-year ELN product vision success metrics and value case linking scientific needs (e.g. experiment design data capture reuse) with enterprise data and platform strategies. Translate this into a clear outcomes-focused roadmap aligned with R&D priorities and portfolio timelines.
Lead a cross-functional product team: Build mentor and lead a high-performing team of product managers business analysts ELN configuration specialists integration engineers and validation/QA. Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement accountability and user-centric delivery in a regulated environment.
Deliver ELN capabilities at scale: Plan and implement iterative releases that simplify experiment capture templating and review/approval workflows; standardise structure and metadata for FAIR data; and improve search sharing and compliance. Drive adoption through thoughtful change management training and community of practice.
Leverage Revvity Signals Notebook: Guide the configuration and extension of Signals Notebook (or similar ELN) to meet scientific use cases across modalities and therapeutic areas. Evaluate and deploy vendor features APIs and plugins; influence the vendor roadmap based on AstraZeneca requirements; and lead version upgrades with minimal business disruption.
Integrate across the lab ecosystem: Orchestrate integrations between ELN and adjacent systems (e.g. inventory/registration LIMS SDMS/Lab Data platforms instrument connectivity workflow orchestration reporting/analytics). Ensure robust data models taxonomies and ontology alignment to enable traceability from experiment to decision.
Partner with scientists and business leaders: Engage routinely with bench scientists lab managers and R&D leadership to elicit requirements prioritise features and validate that releases solve real problems. Balance usability and scientific flexibility with standardisation and compliance.
Ensure operational excellence and compliance: Establish reliable run/operate processes (you build it you run it) including SLAs incident/problem management and performance monitoring. Support the validation lead in validation activities to meet GxP and data integrity expectations where applicable.
Drive engineering standards: Advocate modern product and DevOps practicesCI/CD for configurations and integrations automated testing environment management and infrastructure-as-code where relevant. Lead technical debt scalability and security in partnership with architecture and cyber teams.
Measure outcomes and ROI: Define and track key product indicators (e.g. adoption time-to-document data completeness retrieval success cycle time for reviews experiment-to-insight time). Use data to inform prioritisation and demonstrate impact on research productivity and decision quality.
Lead across the matrix: Navigate global and cross-functional governance aligning with platform leads for Lab Data Lab IT operations and Automation. Coordinate with procurement legal finance and vendor management to optimise licensing costs and contractual performance.
Requirements:
Bachelors degree in a scientific or engineering field (e.g. Biology Chemistry Biochemistry Computer Science IT Data/Information Science).
Experience defining multiyear product vision success metrics and outcome led roadmaps for R&D or lab informatics; ability to link scientific workflows with enterprise data/platform strategies.
Experience leading cross-functional teams (PMs BAs ELN config integrations QA/validation) and driving a user centric continuously improving culture in regulated settings.
Hands on experience with Revvity Signals Notebook (or comparable ELN) configuration extensions APIs/plugins vendor feature evaluation roadmap influence and low disruption upgrades.
Experience in life sciences particularly with Research & Development Labs and the drug discovery lifecycle
Success operating in global governance; coordination with Lab Data Lab IT Automation and vendor management for licensing cost and contract outcomes.
Experienced in leading Engineers on standard methodologies on key architectural concepts as needed and are comfortable to have trade off conversations around technical debt. You know what good looks like for a hard-working team of engineers and can lead a team there.
Demonstrable programme delivery leadership operating within a matrix governance structure balancing expectations and managing delivery commitments across IT platforms procurement legal finance and Senior scientific stakeholders.
In Office Requirement:
When we put unexpected teams in the same room we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing -person working gives us the platform we need to connect work at pace and challenge perceptions. Thats why we work on average a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesnt mean were not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Competitive salary and benefits package on offer!
The successful candidate will have access to a flexible employee benefits fund including holiday purchase and flexible time off pension contributions Share Save Plans A performance recognition scheme and a competitive generous remuneration package.
Date Posted
31-Mar-2026Closing Date
12-Apr-2026Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations please complete the section in the application form.
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