Technical Project​/Product Manager - Remote

Leap Analysis is a growing award-winning product company, bringing world-class tech to the area of data integration, advanced search & analytics in data rich environments. Leap Analysis enables customers to leverage all of their data assets while not disrupting IT operations through the use of patented federated data access approaches. Customers represent multiple industry verticals who are struggling with common problems in the area of data management.

Leap Analysis has recently been named to Fast Company’s list of The Most Innovative Data Science Companies In the World (#3). To further accelerate the growth of Leap Analysis we are now looking for a Technical Project/Product Manager to join our team in North America.

• Working on international IT projects with leading global pharmaceutical companies
• Bridging between customer engagements and product development priorities to ensure reliable delivery of added product value for a variety of customer scenarios
• Actively involved in the execution and delivery of features from product roadmap
• Fostering an environment of continuous improvement across geographical dispersed architecture, design and development resources
• Researching and bringing “best of breed” development and delivery approaches to Leap Analysis and its customers
• Aid in the decomposition of high level requirements and vision to actionable implementation plan
• Responsible for multi-project management and the balancing of scope/schedule/budget/quality tradeoffs
• Maintaining a multi-project risk register while establishing and executing feasible mitigation plans
• Completes operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results
• Manage technical release planning in collaboration with engineering and product management
• Develop a status and reporting structure that is consistent with agile principles that also gives insight into progress toward desired business outcomes
• Provides executive (internal) and customer (external) status reports on an established cadence
• Maintains development team job results by counseling and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in computer science, business administration or other related field
• 5 years professional experience working with product development teams
• Experience in managing product design and implementation backlogs with tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Process orientation with proven ability to manage multi-functional team workflows
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects within budget and scope, as well as to assess and manage stakeholder expectations
• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership to generate options, resolve problems, prioritize solutions, select optimal solutions and implement decisions
• Experience building products based on data, hypotheses, and MVPs by defining and aligning on clear requirements, working with a cross-disciplinary team of software engineers, product managers, designers, UX researchers.
• Ability to identify risks to timelines, elevate as necessary and propose mitigation strategies
• Good communication skills and experience working with a variety of customers
• Experience working on large diverse teams
• Ability to start work day at 7:45 a.m. EST
• Ability to travel internationally to customer and development sites in Europe, United States and India

• Experience with semantic technologies, ontologies and classification schemas
• Experience working with reasoning systems, AI tools, natural language processing (NLP) tools
• Experience in graph theory and computational applications of graphs for high-performance computing
• Experience in the Life Sciences, pharmaceutical, biotech or…