Director, Product Management, Population Health Products (Remote)

This position is open to remote within the US or onsite at our headquarters in South San Francisco.

Why join Freenome?

Freenome is a high-growth biotech company on a mission since 2014 to create tools that empower everyone to prevent, detect, and treat their disease. 

To achieve this mission, Freenome is developing next-generation blood tests to detect cancer in its earliest, most treatable stages using our multiomics platform and machine learning techniques. Our first blood test will detect early-stage colorectal cancer and advanced adenomas.

To fight the war on cancer, Freenome has raised more than $1.1B from leading investors including a16z, GV (formerly Google Ventures), T. Rowe Price, BainCapital, Perceptive Advisors, RA Capital Management, Roche, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and the American Cancer Society’s BrightEdge Ventures. 

Are you ready for the fight? A ‘Freenomer’ is a mission-driven employee who is fueled by the opportunity to make a positive impact on patients' lives, who thrive in a culture of respect and cross collaboration, and whose work makes a significant impact on the company and their career. Freenomers are determined, patient-centric, and outcomes-driven. We build teams around divergent expertise, allowing us to solve problems and ascertain opportunities in unique ways. We are dedicated to advancing healthcare, one breakthrough at a time.

About this opportunity:

The newly created Director, Product Management, Population Health Products position will play a critical role in defining and delivering Freenome’s support to patients throughout their early cancer detection journeys.

In this role, you will define the business strategy and product requirements for care management solutions, such as patient navigation and engagement platforms, that will support patients in need of cancer screening. These solutions will be used by patients and healthcare delivery organizations to ensure a seamless cancer screening experience and, thereby, optimal patient outcomes.

You will lead cross-functional teams consisting of technical, clinical, and business colleagues to ideate and deliver solutions. You will drive and manage external partnerships with healthcare delivery organizations and technology partners. These efforts will culminate in the deployment of novel approaches to enable earlier detection of cancer on a broad population scale.

The role reports to the Senior Director, Product Management and can be onsite at our headquarters in South San Francisco, California, hybrid, or remote.  

What you’ll do:

• Develop the product strategy and vision for Freenome’s care management platform
  • Conduct market research (secondary and primary) to analyze market dynamics and unmet needs of patients, payers, providers, and less traditional healthcare delivery channels
  • Ideate and prioritize products and services that would support patients throughout their early cancer detection journey
• Define product roadmaps and requirements for prioritized products and services, taking into account the ecosystem of customer stakeholders involved
• Lead cross-functional teams to execute on the product roadmap. Bring strategic lens to:
  • Inform and guide the team’s activities
  • Drive cross-functional coordination
  • Prioritize deliverables and resource needs
  • Problem solve challenges
• Lead external engagements with partners and customers that deliver value to our partners, customers, patients, and Freenome
  • Craft collaboration scope
  • Lead execution of collaboration
  • Grow partnerships from pilot testing to full deployment

Must haves:

• Bachelor’s degree; degree in an analytical, technical, or scientific field, and advanced degree preferred
• At least ten years of experience in a business strategy or product strategy role, with extensive customer-facing experience
• At least five years of experience working with health plans and/or health systems
• At least five years of experience in product development for digitally-enabled care management, patient navigation, and/or patient engagement products
• Demonstrated ability to design solutions that address patients’ barriers to care
• Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with ambiguity
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Solutions-oriented and bias-to-action

Benefits and additional information:

The US target range of our base salary is $178,500 - $240,000. You will also be eligible to receive pre-IPO equity, cash bonuses, and a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits dependent on the position offered.  Please note that individual total compensation for this position will be determined at the Company’s sole discretion and may vary based on several factors, including but not limited to, location, skill level, years and depth of relevant experience, and education. We invite you to check out our career page @ https://careers.freenome.com/ for additional company information.  

Freenome is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. Freenome does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws.  

• Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

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