About ValGenesis
ValGenesis is a leading digital validation platform provider for life sciences companies. ValGenesis suite of products are used by 30 of the top 50 global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to achieve digital transformation, total compliance and manufacturing excellence/intelligence across their product lifecycle.
Learn more about working for ValGenesis, the de facto standard for paperless validation in Life Sciences: https://www.valgenesis.com/about
About the Role:
Responsibilities:
- Own Story-Level Requirements and Sprint Readiness
- Write, refine, and maintain high-quality user stories with clear acceptance criteria
- Ensure backlog items are well-formed, testable, and unambiguous for Engineering and QA
- Lead backlog refinement to ensure stories are:
- o correctly scoped
- o dependency-aware
- o sized appropriately
- o aligned to sprint objectives
- Ensure sprint planning is efficient by bringing a ready backlog with clear tradeoffs and sequencing options
- Drive Execution Clarity During Product Delivery
- Act as the day-to-day decision partner for Engineering during sprint execution
- Resolve requirement questions quickly and prevent delivery stalls
- Make sprint-level scope tradeoffs (within agreed goals) to maintain flow and delivery momentum
- Collaborate with QA to ensure expected behavior is verifiable and aligned to regulated quality expectations
- Partner with Platform TPM + Domain PMs (CMC/CPV)
- Work closely with Platform/Technical Product Management to understand platform intent, constraints, and NFRs
- Partner with Domain Director and Domain PM(s) for CMC and CPV to ensure stories reflect real workflow needs and outcomes
- Ensure platform delivery enables domain adoption without introducing inconsistent patterns across suites
- Ensure GxP-Grade Product Quality and Readiness
- Ensure stories reflect the realities of regulated customers, including:
- o auditability and traceability
- o e-signature expectations (where applicable)
- o data integrity and compliance alignment
- o secure, permissioned behavior and controlled workflows
- Define acceptance criteria that supports inspection-ready behaviors and reduces downstream validation risk
- Backlog Health, Hygiene, and Operational Visibility
- Maintain backlog health: clear priorities, organized structure, reduced noise, and current status
- Track readiness metrics (example: % of backlog in Ready state, carryover rate, churn rate)
- Surface risks early (dependency gaps, unclear requirements, scope creep, conflicting stakeholder input)
- Communicate status, risks, and decision points clearly to Product and Engineering stakeholders
- Support Continuous Improvement of Delivery Practices
- Identify recurring execution issues (ambiguity patterns, refinement gaps, testability issues) and propose improvements
- Strengthen team habits around:
- o Definition of Ready
- o Definition of Done alignment
- o consistent story structure and quality
- Contribute to better system-level outcomes: improved predictability, reduced rework, and faster cycle time
Requirements:
- Product Ownership Excellence
- Strong command of Agile delivery mechanics (Scrum/Kanban)
- Deep capability in writing:
- o crisp user stories
- o clear acceptance criteria
- o testable requirements
- o edge cases and negative paths
- Ability to drive alignment fast without over-processing decisions
- Strong judgment on scope boundaries and sequencing
- Platform + Technical Fluency
- Comfortable working with Engineering on:
- o APIs, integrations, and shared services
- o cross-team dependencies
- o non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, security)
- o system behavior clarity across suites
- Can translate technical constraints into understandable tradeoffs and requirements
- GxP / Life Sciences Mindset
- Understands why regulated customers require:
- o traceability
- o controlled workflows
- o auditability
- o inspection readiness
- o consistent behavior across releases
- Familiarity with workflows and concepts such as:
- o CMC
- o CPV
- o QbD
- o Tech Transfer
- o process validation and lifecycle thinking
- Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years experience as a Product Owner (not currently in a BA role) delivering software in an Agile environment
- Demonstrated experience owning:
- o story quality
- o backlog readiness
- o sprint execution support
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to prioritize, manage ambiguity, and deliver in fast-moving environments
- Experience using Agile tooling such as:
- o Jira and Confluence
- o Microsoft 365 (Teams, Excel, PowerPoint)
- o Miro (or similar)
- Preferred Qualifications (any of the following)
- Experience supporting Continued Process Verification (CPV) workflows (monitoring, trending, signals/alerts, investigation context)
- Working knowledge of Quality by Design (QbD) concepts (CQAs/CPPs, control strategy thinking, linking process intent to execution evidence)
- Familiarity with Risk Management practices in regulated environments (risk assessment, scoring, mitigation, effectiveness checks)
- Understanding of CMC lifecycle processes (process development/scale-up, tech transfer, change impact assessment)
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.
