# Product Owner (SRA Bioinformatics Team)

**Company:** [Black Canyon Consulting](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/blackcanyonconsulting)
**Location:** Bethesda, MD
**Role:** Product Management
**Skills:** Bioinformatics, Genomics, Computational Biology, Agile, AWS, GCP, SQL, Scripting Languages, CI/CD, Fair Data Principles
**Posted:** 2026-05-13

> Leads bioinformatics product lifecycle for NCBI's SRA team, from discovery to delivery, developing vision/roadmaps, prioritizing Agile work, and collaborating with stakeholders to enhance genomic data usability. Requires doctorate in relevant field and expertise in bioinformatics tools/sequencing data.

## Job Description

## Job Responsibilities
- Lead team through a complete product lifecycle of discovery to delivery
- Lead data analysis and user research efforts and utilize findings in the development of product requirements and to inform objective decision making
- Develop product vision, goals, and strategic roadmaps and lead the execution
- Prioritize product team actions and provide clear guidance to create incremental value in an Agile environment
- Develop partnerships and collaborations with internal and external stakeholders to improve data usability and impact

## Required Skills/Experience
- Doctorate level degree in bioinformatics, molecular biology, computational biology, data science, computer science, information technology, or a similar field
- Conceptual knowledge of genomics, molecular biology, and computational biology
- Practical knowledge of bioinformatics, bioinformatic tools, and the application of genomic sequencing data to biomedical and other scientific use cases
- Experience leading teams, setting team goals, prioritizing work based on available information and stakeholder needs, and utilizing metrics to measure success
- Experience providing an effective work environment
- The ability to troubleshoot technical and staffing roadblocks and mitigate risks
- Experience in diplomatically resolving conflicting priorities from multiple user groups, technical stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Strong interpersonal engagement, networking, and collaboration skills

## Desired Skills/Experience
- Experience working with SRA or similar sequence databases and applying next generation sequencing data to biological problems
- Experience serving in the capacity of post-doctorate Investigator, Product Owner or Product Manager experience
- Familiarity and commitment to FAIR data practices
- Familiarity or experience working in an Agile environment
- Familiarity with data storage and/or processing in commercial cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
- Working familiarity with one or more scripting languages
- Working familiarity with large SQL databases
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, unit tests, integration, and regression testing

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