Sr. Manager, Clinical Data Product Owner

Current Need:

Ontada is advancing the future of oncology data and realworld evidence and were looking for a Senior Technical Data Product Owner to help shape how clinical data fuels our research this role you will lead a team of product owners and oversee endtoend clinical data management workflows across Ontadas core Data Platform.

You will be responsible for transforming complex business needs into scalable data solutionsfrom requirements gathering to ingestion integration reconciliation validation and final delivery of researchgrade datasets. This position calls for a leader with strong technical acumen exceptional crossfunctional collaboration skills and a passion for building highquality reliable data products.

If you thrive in structured fastmoving environments and enjoy orchestrating complex workflows this is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on cancer research and evidence generation.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and mentor product owners across four pods; foster a culture of ownership operational excellence and accountability.

• Ensure consistent standardized data management practices and execution approaches across all pod teams.

Data Management & Execution

• Drive endtoend clinical data management workflows that power Ontadas research data products.

• Translate business requirements into clear data and technical specifications that align with Ontadas data strategy.

• Align the data management roadmap with organizational priorities; define pod-level plans milestones dependencies and required resources.

Operational Excellence

• Proactively identify risks blockers and crossteam dependencies; develop and execute mitigation strategies.

• Own data management prioritization across pods balancing speed completeness accuracy and data quality.

• Partner with PMO and pod product owners to maintain accurate JIRA backlogs including epics user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Build and maintain operational dashboards to provide visibility into progress forecasting resource allocation risks and timelines.

Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure rigorous QA and validation processes to deliver researchgrade highintegrity data.

• Continuously refine and improve data processes using quality metrics operational insights and customer feedback.

• Define and monitor pod-level KPIs that measure throughput delivery performance data quality and operational stability.

CrossFunctional Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure data workflows and technical processes are scalable reusable and efficient.

• Apply deep understanding of data models data processing pipelines and clinical data workflows to guide decisionmaking.

Minimum Experience:

• Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 9 years of professional experience and 1 years of supervisory and/or management experience.

Critical Skills:

• 9 years in data management data product management or technical product managementpreferably in healthcare life sciences or health tech.

• Proven experience leading product owners or managing multiple complex workstreams.

• Expertise with JIRA Confluence and Agile practices; strong capability in writing/refining user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Strong experience translating business needs into data management requirements and actionable technical tasks.

• Familiarity with data ingestion ETL integration and reconciliation of multimodal healthcare datasets.

• Demonstrated success collaborating across engineering data science and business stakeholders in highly matrixed environments.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and partner at all levels.

• Strategic thinker with the ability to drive nearterm delivery while shaping longterm platform evolution.

• Operates with strong ownership accountability and a mindset of automation simplification and continuous improvement.

• Deep understanding of healthcare data standards (ICD10 SNOMED CT LOINC RxNorm) and data models (FHIR OMOP mCODE) highly preferred.

• Up to 10% travel nationwide.