About the Role:
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership & Portfolio Direction
- Define and lead the product strategy for Cleaning Validation, Analytical Method Validation, and Process Validation lifecycle within the SmartGxP platform.
- Ensure strategic alignment with platform architecture, lifecycle roadmap, and corporate objectives.
- Identify innovation opportunities, competitive differentiation, and emerging regulatory or scientific trends that should shape the product portfolio.
- Team Leadership & Organizational Development
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Product Managers and Product Owners.
- Set clear expectations, provide direction and coaching, and cultivate a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Build organizational capability by hiring top talent, developing career paths, and establishing product management standards and best practices.
- Ensure the team is equipped to deliver clear requirements, high-quality documentation, and release-ready workflows.
- Product Delivery & Operational Excellence
- Oversee the full product lifecycle from discovery and design through development, launch, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure delivery of clear, testable, engineering-ready requirements, including specifications, user stories, and process flows.
- Drive predictable execution by prioritizing work based on customer value, risk, and strategic impact.
- Maintain high product quality standards that meet scalability, usability, and regulatory expectations.
- Define KPIs and success metrics for product performance; enable data-driven decisions and course-correction.
- Cross-Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Leadership
- Partner closely with Engineering, Platform/Technical Product Management, UX, Quality, and Implementation to ensure coordinated planning and successful delivery.
- Collaborate with Product Growth, Product Ops, and customer-facing teams to support go-to-market readiness, enablement, and adoption.
- Champion strong communication and alignment across global teams to ensure clarity, consistency, and execution momentum.
- Customer, Market & Regulatory Insight
- Engage regularly with customers, industry experts, and the broader market to understand evolving validation practices and unmet needs.
- Translate insights into actionable initiatives that improve product-market fit and competitive positioning.
- Monitor global regulatory trends (FDA, EMA, ICH Q8-Q14) and ensure products support best-practice and compliant workflows.
Requirements
- 10+ years of combined experience in Process validation, cleaning validation and analytical sciences, MSAT or related pharma/biotech domains.
- Deep expertise in Cleaning Validation, Analytical Method Validation, and Process Validation.
- Proven ability to create detailed functional specifications, workflows, and validation-aligned requirements.
- Strong leadership skills with experience influencing cross-functional teams and driving delivery without direct authority.
- Advanced communication skills with the ability to present complex concepts clearly to executives, engineers, and customers.
- Strong analytical, strategic, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience delivering enterprise or regulated-industry software solutions.
- Preferred
- Master s or Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, or related scientific discipline.
- Prior experience with LIMS, QMS, MES, cleaning, analytical/validation systems.
- Familiarity with QbD, design spaces, method lifecycle management, and risk-based validation frameworks.
- Product management certifications (e.g., Pragmatic, CSPO, Scrum Master).
- Global collaboration experience; willingness to travel periodically.
We re on a Mission
In 2005, we disrupted the life sciences industry by introducing the world s first digital validation lifecycle management system. ValGenesis VLMS revolutionized compliance-based corporate validation activities and has remained the industry standard.
Today, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation enhancing and expanding our portfolio beyond validation with an end-to-end digital transformation platform. We combine our purpose-built systems with world-class consulting services to help every facet of GxP meet evolving regulations and quality expectations.
The Team You ll Join
Our customers success is our success. We keep the customer experience centered in our decisions, from product to marketing to sales to services to support. Life sciences companies exist to improve humanity s quality of life, and we honor that mission.
We work together. We communicate openly, support each other without reservation, and never hesitate to wear multiple hats to get the job done.
We think big. Innovation is the heart of ValGenesis. That spirit drives product development as well as personal growth. We never stop aiming upward.
We re in it to win it. We re on a path to becoming the number one intelligent validation platform in the market, and we won t settle for anything less than being a market leader.
How We Work
Our Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore offices are onsite, 5 days per week. We believe that in-person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, and a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company.
ValGenesis is an equal-opportunity employer that makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Our goal is to have the best-qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics protected by local law.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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