{"id":1188424,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dana-farber-cancer-institute-senior-director-product-technology","title":"Senior Director, Product & Technology","company":{"id":1044629,"name":"Dana-Farber Cancer Institute","domain":"dana-farber.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/dana-farber","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Boston, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":157000,"max_usd":292000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1323},"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Adobe XD","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"AppDynamics","optional":false},{"name":"Asana","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Balsamiq","optional":false},{"name":"Bitbucket","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CircleCI","optional":false},{"name":"Dynatrace","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"InVision","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false},{"name":"Monday.com","optional":false},{"name":"MySQL","optional":false},{"name":"New Relic","optional":false},{"name":"Oracle","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Postman","optional":false},{"name":"Sketch","optional":false},{"name":"Swagger","optional":false},{"name":"Tableau","optional":false},{"name":"Travis CI","optional":false},{"name":"Trello","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T15:12:18Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T19:24:18Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"The Senior Director of Product and Technology leads the strategic planning, development, and implementation of advanced technology platforms and products to support Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s (DFCI) research community. Reporting to the Vice President of Research Informatics Operations (RIO), this role oversees the design, development, and continuous enhancement of systems that serve basic research labs, clinical trial informatics, research administration, and scientific computing.This role requires expertise in product management, systems integration, IT infrastructure, and data acquisition, with a demonstrated ability to align technology solutions with the operational needs of researchers and the strategic goals of the Institute. The Senior Director manages a large team of product managers, developers, and infrastructure specialists, ensuring the successful delivery of innovative, scalable, and user-centered solutions. This position also collaborates with senior executives, faculty, and research leaders to address the complex needs of the DFCI research community.\nLocated in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers,and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.\nMINIMUM JOB QUALIFICATIONS:\nMinimum Education: Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in a STEM field. Advanced degree, preferred, ideally in business administration, marketing, computer science, software development or a related field.\nMinimum Experience:\n15+ years of relevant professional experience, with 10+ in a biomedical or healthcare setting, preferred.\nundefined\n10 years of experience in product management, preferably in leadership roles, with a track record of successfully managing and launching products/software platforms in a large-scale enterprise environment.\n10 years of direct people management experience.\n10 years of exceptional planning, strategy, project management, negotiation, and organizational skills, with the demonstrated ability to drive multiple concurrent projects in a complex, deadline-driven environment.\n7 years of building and managing high-performance product management and software development teams.\nPRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nStrategic Responsibilities\nPartners with VP of RIO to develop a clear product and technology strategy and vision, aligning the product roadmap and product goals with the overall Institute goals, market trends, and various client needs.\nOversees the product planning process by leading matrixed, cross-functional teams to prioritize features, define requirements and create roadmaps for every product ensuring a successful product development lifecycle for all research systems and platforms.\nLeads a large department of directors, associate directors, product managers, developers, integration developers, quality assurance (QA) analysts, and infrastructure specialists. Ensures the department meets key Institute performance indicators (KPIs)s, identifies operational risks, and provides mitigation strategies.\nDetermines the strategic value of utilizing sponsored and outsourced staff for specific talent needs. Directly manages technical development resources located in India.\nDevelops and executes strategy for enterprise data stewardship with DFCI and I&A leadership. Acts as DFCI leader for democratization of data, tools, and analytics and enables stakeholders to embark on that journey.\nCollaborates regularly with the Senior Director of Architecture and Strategy to align the overall strategic direction for new product designs within the context of the entire research product landscape. Ensures product innovation initiatives are in harmony with the overall architectural vision and strategic goals of the organization.\nEnsures the team regularly identifies opportunities for leveraging AI technologies, including LLMs, to enhance product innovation and streamline research processes.\nLeadership Responsibilities\nResponsible for the design, development, implementation, scalability, and on-going enhancements of over 30 research systems and platforms with more than 14K users at DFCI and various internal and external research collaborating entities, including the DF/HCC.\nProvides solutions for all oncology-related work and activities for the DF/HCC.\nOversees the entire lifecycle of the full suite of the product portfolio; from ideation and development to launch and continuous improvement.\nCollaborates closely with RIO Account Services leadership, who support the Basic Research & Research Administration, Translational Research and Clinical Trials Research domains, to identify and prioritize solution delivery across the entire research enterprise including multiple departments, labs, and external collaborators. Collaborates with other I&A client-facing leads to provide platform solutions for clinical and business operations, as needed.\nOversees the integration of AI technologies into product management processes, ensuring continuous innovation and alignment with emerging technological advancements.\nEnsures the product management teams follow a standardized framework for product roadmaps, release management, security, integration, and hardware.\nCollaborates closely with the Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Operations (AIOS), Enterprise Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehouse I&A capability teams to provide comprehensive solutions delivery for products and services that require cross-functional support.\nProvides product leadership for all research-facing systems and services developed within the Bioinformatics and AIOS. Examples include: the Bioinformatics workbench platform, the AI platform for model development and deployment, and the internal DFCI ChatGPT4 platform.\nAssumes direct responsibility for the Engineering team’s efforts by overseeing product managers who are tasked with the development and management of DFCI in-house software solutions. Provides hands-on leadership to guide and support the product management team, ensuring that engineering projects align with organizational goals and deliver optimal results.\nSuccessfully leads enterprise product launches by ensuring the coordination of all key departments.\nCollaborates with Office of General Counsel (OGC) and the Belfer Office of Dana-Farber Innovation (BODFI) on creating and maintaining system use and data sharing agreements for outside collaborations.\nLeads the development of system architecture to provide rapid data findability and delivery of new data types for researchers. \nIDE&E/Social Responsibilities\nUtilizes Dana-Farber Cancer Institute values to govern decisions, actions, and behaviors.\nDemonstrates, strengthens, and embeds inclusive behaviors, and holds team and leaders accountable for the same.\nInvests in understanding diverse stakeholder cultures, motivations, and practices to enable consensus-based solutions.\nHuman Resources Management Responsibilities\nResponsible for employment decisions. Receives input from direct reports on staffing needs and builds business cases for adding FTEs where appropriate to present at position control meetings.\nFosters a collaborative and innovative work environment that attracts top talent and encourages professional growth.\nTeaches/coaches management and leadership skills to develop people managers within the team. \nFinancial Responsibilities\nActs as a responsible steward of DFCI and I&A financial resources. Consistently complies with DFCI and I&A spending and accounting policies. \nDevelops and manages a budget portfolio of $5 - 10M per year, including capital, operating, and charge back funding; ensures the efficient and effective use of team and departmental resources.\nFunctional Expertise\nEstablishes enterprise product management best practices and shares these methods with other I&A leaders of product managers providing products and services to non-research stakeholders.\nMonitors the industry to stay current on industry trends and latest technology offering to address ever-changing client needs.\nEnsures the development of consistent and reliable go-live strategies and processes to enable seamless delivery of new solutions and features to the research community.\nOversees consistent, high-quality deliverables, data assets, and documentation in alignment with group operating model and I&A principles (e.g., FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable))\nCommunications/Interpersonal Responsibilities\nCommunicates consistently and proactively with senior level stakeholders and collaborators.\nEnsures all department teams provide regular project communication updates through various means: progress reports, status updates at steering committee meetings, departmental updates, etc.\nAnticipates and addresses stakeholder concerns and teaches team members how to grow this skill.\nProvides inspiration and leadership to team, group, and collaborators.\nKNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:\nTechnical\nDemonstrates knowledge of product management lifecycle and basic software development fundamentals, such as data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.\nProficiency in primary tools and methods used in product management, software development, integration and testing; examples include:Product Management Software: Jira, Asana, Trello, Monday.com, etc.\nCustomer Feedback: UserVoice, Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, etc.\nCloud Computing Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)\nAnalytics and Data Visualization: Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Tableau, etc.\nRoad mapping: Aha!, ProductPlan, Roadmunk, etc.\nPrototyping and Wireframing: Sketch, InVision, Adobe XD, Balsamiq, etc.\nIntegrated Development Environments (IDEs): Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, etc.\nVersion Control Systems: Git, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, etc.\nAutomated Testing/Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Tools: Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI, GitLab CI, etc.\nAPI Design and Testing Tools: Postman, Swagger (OpenAPI), etc.\nDatabase Management Tools: Oracle, MySQL Workbench, pgAdmin (for PostgreSQL), MongoDB Compass\nApplication Performance Monitoring (APM) tools: New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, etc.\nProject Management and Issue Tracking: Jira, Asana, etc.\nCloud Development Platforms: AWS Cloud9, Microsoft Visual Studio Online, Google Cloud Shell, etc.\n\nClient services, collaboration, communication\nStrong client service orientation\nConsistently leads effective prioritization and re-prioritization discussions with stakeholder groups\nRoutinely establishes new projects and collaborations independently\nExpert at presenting results persuasively and accurately, verbally or in writing, and in delivering both positive and challenging news\nAble to professionally and productively say no when necessary\nWorks effectively, collaboratively, and proactively across teams and groups, and institutionally\nExcellent interpersonal skills; 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