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# Scientific Product Owner, QDI

- **Company:** Qiagen Gaithersburg, Inc.
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $165,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Hospital Information Systems, Databases, Scrum Methodology, Software Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/scientific-product-owner-qdi-los-angeles-ca--a601c8ad-03d2-4856-bb24-a5dedca863ab

## About the Role

Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, Diversity, Genomics, Clinical Information Systems, Writing Skills, Acceptance Testing, Disease, Cancer, Customer Relations, * MS or PhD in genetics, molecular biology, genomics, or a related life science, with expertise in cancer and/or hereditary disease.

 * Preferred: 2+ years interpreting clinical next-generation sequencing (NGS) data in a clinical lab, research, or testing environment.
 * Working knowledge of variant classification guidelines (e.g. ACMG/AMP) and common genomic data formats and databases.
 * 1+ year in a product owner, business analyst, or requirements role on a software or bioinformatics product, or equivalent hands-on experience writing specifications for developers.
 * Familiarity with agile development (Scrum or Kanban) and tools such as Jira, Confluence, and requirements-management systems.
 * Preferred: comfort discussing APIs, data models, and system behaviour with engineers (no software engineering background required).
 * Excellent written and spoken English, including scientific and technical writing.
 * Collaborative team player who can coordinate work across functions and across US and European time zones.
 * Attentive to detail, curious, and comfortable with complex scientific, technical, and regulatory topics.

## Description

* Own the product backlog for assigned releases: write and refine user stories and acceptance criteria so work is ready for development.
 * Translate scientific needs from product managers, content scientists, key opinion leaders, and customers into clear software requirements.
 * Be the scientific voice for engineering: lead refinement sessions and resolve domain questions quickly so the team stays unblocked.
 * Shape scientific design for hereditary and somatic workflows with product management and content science teams.
 * Work with engineers on how scientific content, variant annotation, and classification logic flow through the platform.
 * Test new features from a scientific user's perspective and confirm requirements are fully covered.
 * Prioritize customer-reported issues and enhancement requests by clinical impact.
 * Assess reported issues for severity, patient safety, and usability risk in our IVD clinical decision-support product.
 * Maintain design control documentation and support release readiness, including release notes, user guides, and training for field application scientists and support teams, within an ISO 13485 quality system.
 * Act as scientific subject-matter expert and contribute to roadmap planning.