Product Owner

Product Owner at Norstella

About Norstella

Norstella is a premier and critical global life sciences data and AI solutions provider dedicated to improving patient access to life-saving therapies. Norstella supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the full drug development lifecycle — from pipeline to patient. Our mission is simple: to help our clients bring therapies to market faster and more efficiently, ultimately impacting patient lives.

Norstella unites market-leading brands - Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, Skipta, and The Dedham Group - and delivers must-have answers and insights, leveraging AI, for critical strategic, clinical, and commercial decision-making. We help our clients:

• Accelerate the drug development cycle
• Assess competition and bring the right drugs to market
• Make data driven commercial and financial decisions
• Match and recruit patients for clinical trials
• Identify and address barriers to therapies

Norstella serves most pharmaceutical and biotech companies around the world, along with regulators like the FDA, and payers. By providing critical proprietary data supporting AI-driven workflows, Norstella helps clients make decisions faster and with greater confidence. Norstella’s investments in AI are transforming how data is consumed and decisions are made, disrupting inefficient legacy workflows and helping the industry become more efficient, innovative, and responsive to patient needs.

The Role: Product Owner

Norstella is seeking a skilled and collaborative Product Owner to join the Biomedtracker team. In this role, you will support the ongoing development of products in the life sciences space, working closely with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and clients. The position calls for strong product ownership skills, comfort working with data-driven and AI-enabled capabilities, and the ability to navigate a range of use cases within a complex product environment. The successful candidate will bring clear communication, sound judgment, and a pragmatic approach to delivering high-quality solutions that meet both user and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Manage the product backlog and prioritize features based on business value, customer needs, and market trends.
• Define, refine, and communicate product vision, goals, and user stories to the development team and stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with the development team to translate requirements into actionable tasks and ensure timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and gather customer feedback to identify market needs and drive product enhancements.
• Work closely with stakeholders, including clients and internal teams, to gather requirements, address concerns, and ensure alignment on product strategy and roadmap.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for product-related questions, issues, and updates from stakeholders and clients.
• Maintain a deep understanding of customer personas and workflows, market challenges, competitors, industry regulations, and available technology to inform product decision-making.
• Collaborate with the UX/UI design team to create intuitive, accessible, secure, innovative, and user-friendly product interfaces.
• Ensure effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ad hoc duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a product owner, product manager, data scientist, data analyst, or business analyst.
• Proven experience in managing product backlogs, defining user stories, and prioritizing features.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and ability to apply agile principles in a fast-paced development environment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Proficient in using project management and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Lucid, Figma, Monday) to manage product development processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in data science and artificial intelligence technologies within the life sciences, pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare industry.
• Experience using SQL or other data access tools to enable self-discovery of data.
• Experience working with diverse stakeholders, including healthcare providers, payers, and regulatory bodies.
• Experience translating complex clinical, regulatory, or commercial data into actionable product requirements, including the ability to balance scientific accuracy with user-centric design.

Location: Remote US

Our Guiding Principles For Success At Norstella

• 01: Bold, Passionate, and Mission-First
• 02: Integrity, Truth, and Reality
• 03: Kindness, Empathy, and Grace
• 04: Resilience, Mettle, and Perseverance
• 05: Humility, Gratitude, and Learning

Benefits

• Medical and Prescription Drug Benefits
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Dental & Vision Benefits
• Basic Life and AD&D Benefits
• 401k Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Company Paid Short & Long-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off & Company Holidays

The expected base salary for this position ranges from $90,000 to $95,000. It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, licensure or certifications obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to base salary and a competitive benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law.

Sometimes the best opportunities are hidden by self-doubt. We disqualify ourselves before we have the opportunity to be considered. Regardless of where you came from, how you identify, or the path that led you here- you are welcome. If you read this job description and feel passion and excitement, we’re just as excited about you.

All legitimate roles with Norstella will be posted on Norstella’s job board which is located at norstella.com/careers. If a role is not posted on this job board, a candidate should assume the role is not a legitimate role with Norstella. Norstella is not responsible for an application that may be submitted by or through a third-party and candidates should proceed with extreme caution if a third-party approaches them about an open role with Norstella. Norstella will never ask for anything of value or any type of payment during or as part of any recruitment, interview, or pre-hire onboarding process. If you are aware of or have reason to believe a job posting purportedly for a role with Norstella is fraudulent or otherwise not authorized by Norstella, please contact the Company using the following email address: ApplicationHelp@norstella.com.

Key skills/competency

• Product Ownership
• Agile Methodologies
• Stakeholder Management
• Product Backlog
• User Stories
• Market Research
• Data-Driven Decisions
• Life Sciences
• AI/Data Capabilities
• JIRA/Confluence