The posting
At Diaceutics we believe that every patient should have access to the right treatment at the right time. We provide the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies with an end-to-end solution for the launch of precision medicine diagnostics enabled by DXRX – The Diagnostic Network®.
DXRX is the world’s first diagnostic commercialization platform for precision medicine, integrating multiple pipelines of real-world diagnostic testing data from a global network of laboratories.
Role Summary
The Head of Product leads and builds the product function across Diaceutics’ product areas, ensuring a coherent and aligned approach to product strategy, prioritization and execution across customer groups. The role is accountable for the product portfolio operating as a unified whole, with clear prioritization, effective planning cycles and strong cross-functional alignment.
This is the first hire in a new structure, responsible for building a high-performing product function that translates strategy into customer value, commercial growth and market differentiation.
You will shape the function as you build it, hiring product area teams in sequence and evolving the design as the work matures. Product roles are changing, and an AI-enabled function needs fewer and different roles, with definition and build held together in product engineering teams. You will be comfortable with ambiguity and with building while the function is being established.
Product and data work hand in hand at Diaceutics. Every product is built on the DXRX data asset, so product decisions and data decisions are made together: data feasibility is confirmed before work is prioritized, the Data function is a design partner from the earliest stage, and roadmaps are shaped jointly with data leadership.
What you will be doing
Duties and responsibilities will include:
Product Strategy
- Leading the product function as a cohesive portfolio, ensuring alignment of priorities and solutions across all customer groups.
- Building the function gradually: hiring Product Area Leads, Product Engineers and shared roles in sequence, and adjusting the design as AI tooling changes what each role needs to be.
- Working closely with the Data function: joint roadmap shaping with data leadership, data feasibility confirmed with the Data Product Lead before prioritization, and data treated as a design input from the earliest stage of every product decision.
- Owning portfolio-level planning processes, including quarterly planning cycles, ensuring they are well structured, effective and deliver clear decisions.
- Establishing consistent standards across the function, including roadmap structure, requirements definition, pricing and product packaging.
- Identifying and resolving cross-area dependencies, overlaps and conflicts, ensuring decisions are made at the appropriate level.
- Owning the product interface with the ring-fenced innovation team: the gating process, protection of the innovation ring-fence, and the routes by which innovation work graduates back into the core product and delivery pipeline.
- Supporting Product Area Leads with complex prioritization, stakeholder engagement and commercial decision-making.
- Partnering with Sales, Marketing and Customer Success to balance short-term commercial needs with long-term portfolio priorities.
- Managing shared design and product support roles, ensuring capacity is allocated effectively against priorities.
- Collaborating with Product Marketing to ensure the value proposition for each area is clear and supporting go-to-market planning in partnership with commercial teams.
- Maintaining a consistent and clear pricing framework across the portfolio and supporting pricing decisions.
- Embedding prototype-led, AI-first ways of working, including keeping product definitions structured and current enough to be machine-readable as agent-based buying and selling develops.
- Providing clear and accurate reporting on product development status, risks and decisions required, and supporting board-level and investor-facing materials where the portfolio must be clearly represented.
Senior Leadership
- Lead and develop a team of People Leaders and professionals across the Product function holding definition and building together, with accountability for outcomes end to end within each product area.
- Exemplify the One Diaceutics Leadership behaviors as a senior leader.
- Act as a trusted advisor and execution partner to the Chief Product & Technology Officer, advising on portfolio-wide investment, prioritization and resourcing decisions.
- Build strong, trusted relationships across the executive leadership team.
- Shape the evolution of the Product operating model, challenging thinking, setting direction and ensuring readiness to deliver strategic priorities.
- Cross-functional Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
- As a member of the Extended Leadership Team (ELT), bridge strategy and execution, reducing siloed thinking and driving operational excellence across Diaceutics.
- Partner closely with Sales, Client Services, Client Success, Data & Analytics, and Marketing to translate client needs and delivery insights into improvements that strengthen the company’s offering and to deliver a seamless end-to-end client experience.
- Represent Diaceutics externally with credibility and professionalism as a senior leader.
Measure of Success
Growth & Value Creation:
- Revenue growth, ARR, NRR, total contract value.
- Time to first value.
- Customer satisfaction and advocacy.
Delivery & Product Effectiveness:
- Product development roadmap strength and readiness.
- Product performance, adoption and utilization.
- Feedback-to-feature velocity and deployment frequency.
People & Capability:
- Team engagement and development.
- Team performance.
- Effectiveness of coaching and mentorship.
- Function built to plan: roles hired in sequence, processes running and being refined with people in post.
Who we are looking for
You are a strategic and commercially-minded product leader who thrives in environments of growth and transformation. You have a track record of building or substantially reshaping a product function, hiring and developing a team while running the day-to-day, and you hold a current view on how product roles are changing in AI-enabled organizations.
Joining at the start of a transformation, you are comfortable building from scratch and incorporating existing ways of working, implementing ideas with minimum sign-off within agreed decision frameworks. You have experience of setting clear direction, setting decision frameworks for the team, championing change and transformation and communicating with stakeholders at executive level.
Skills and competencies:
• Proven track record: You have significant experience in product management, leading product teams across multiple product lines, ideally within a SaaS or data-driven environment. You have translated product vision and technology strategy into scalable platforms and understand how product-led strategies underpin ARR growth. A background in life sciences, healthcare, diagnostics or a related field is required.
• Leadership capability: You have a history of creating an environment where people learn and grow, inspiring others to perform through coaching, feedback and transparent communication. You set ambitious goals and hold people to account for delivering results. You have led senior professionals and People Leaders across geographically dispersed teams.
• Commercial acumen: You demonstrate a strong commercial awareness and the ability to make Product decisions grounded in real customer needs and outcomes that delivering sustainable value.
• Knowledge and expertise: You have hands-on product management knowledge at an expert level, including planning, development prioritization, go-to-market planning and pricing. You will have demonstrable experience of using AI in product management practice and embedding AI adoption across a team. Experience of data products, or of working closely with data teams where the product is built on a proprietary data asset, is strongly preferred.
• Delivering with others: You are an excellent cross-functional collaborator, with a strong understanding and ability to influence the interdependencies that shape the overall client experience, bringing people together to achieve shared outcomes.
• Communication: You demonstrate excellent communication skills, across a range of written and verbal communication channels. You can confidently represent the organization with senior external stakeholders. Clear communication to drive alignment and manage stakeholder expectations is a key skill.
• Agility: You have a strong, proactive and positive approach to problem solving, making high-stakes decisions while supporting others to resolve complex issues. You role model resilience and adaptability and are comfortable managing through change in an environment of continuous improvement and ambiguity.
Life at Diaceutics
Culture is a powerful driver of Diaceutics’ success and growth. Our culture is an outcome of our ‘One Diaceutics’ Behaviors. These behaviors set out a promise and an expectation of what it means to work at – and with – Diaceutics.
We exist because we Care Deeply about our patients and customers. To Be Bold, we pioneer, we innovate, and we think big. We take responsibility, and we are driven and determined to Make an Impact. We prioritize collective success and when we win, we Succeed Together. We are excited by change and driven by progress. We Don’t Stand Still.
We are a multi-cultural, diverse team spanning 16 countries around the world. All of our employees work remotely or in a hybrid model, collaborating together as a global community.
We hire smart, fun people who care about our mission and about each other. Some interesting points about us:
- Competitive salary + bonus opportunities
- Training and development programmes
- Hybrid / flexible working (including Flex Day programme)
- Share incentive plan
- Increased annual leave with tenure
- Pension/401k
- Healthcare (including vision & dental) + additional benefits
- Life insurance
- Short & Long Term Disability
- Enhanced maternity and sick pay
- Paid Bonding Leave
- Performance and growth framework
- Staff referral scheme
- Wellbeing initiatives and positive culture
- Annual company get-together
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.
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