About Certara
Certara accelerates the potential of bringing medicines to market and to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Our clients include more than 2,400 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 70 countries.
Our goal is to enable the life sciences industry’s use of data, modeling, and analytics to make better decisions across the various phases of discovery and drug development. Our software and scientists incorporate modern advances in scientific understanding, drug development experience, data analysis, and AI resulting in significant opportunities to decrease the cost and increase the probability of success for new drug approval and commercialization.
About Chemaxon
Chemaxon is a leading cheminformatics software company supporting early-stage drug discovery and chemical research for more than 20 years, with solutions used by top pharmaceutical, biotech, and academic organizations worldwide.
Since 2024, Chemaxon has been part of Certara, a global leader in model-informed drug development. Together, we strengthen the link between cheminformatics and downstream biological and clinical decision-making, helping research teams accelerate smarter drug discovery.
We are agile, innovative, and collaborative, working across Budapest (HQ), the UK, the US, and Switzerland in a multicultural environment.
About the Role
We are looking for a Group Product Manager to lead the Bio / Compound Management group - a team of three product teams with engineers, and dedicated product and domain specialists, all focused on making biological and chemical data management reliable, fast, and adoption-ready for top pharmaceutical and biotech organizations.
In this dual role, you will set and own the group-level product strategy and roadmap while providing line management, mentorship, and direction to the Product Managers and Product Owners in your group. You will also maintain a close cross-group with other product groups. This is a role for someone who combines strong strategic product thinking with genuine interest in people leadership and a comfort operating in a complex, multi-team environment.
Responsibilities:
- Set and own the group strategy: Define and communicate a cohesive product vision and roadmap across the three teams in the group; translate company-level 2026 goals (e.g. biologics adoption, registration quality, search effectiveness, platform reliability, etc.) into team-level priorities and outcomes.
- Market & customer engagement: Collate target market requirements; together with the PMs monitor the competitive landscape; work with key pharma and biotech customers to capture strategic needs.
- Stakeholder & partner engagement: Maintain alignment with Sales, Marketing, and other internal stakeholders.
- Product scope & backlog ownership: Own the group-level backlog at epic level; translate market and customer requirements into prioritized feature sets; use Jobs-To-Be-Done, strategy canvas, and data-informed methods to guide roadmap decisions.
- Planning & delivery: Ensure product-market fit across all three product areas; coordinate cross-team dependencies; support PMs and POs in maintaining delivery quality and pace; work effectively in a dual-track agile environment.
- Group leadership: Provide line management, coaching, and professional development for Product Managers and Product Owners in the group; contribute to hiring decisions; foster a high-performing, collaborative team culture.
- Miscellaneous: Manage product lifecycle in accordance with the Lean PLC process; review and improve team processes.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years' experience as a software Product Management.
- Proven track record of owning a product roadmap across multiple teams or product areas and delivering cross-functional outcomes on time and specifications.
- Experience in or genuine interest in people leadership: mentoring, coaching, and formal line management.
- Comfortable operating in a multi-team, cross-group environment with shared platform dependencies.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills - at ease with enterprise pharma customers, executives, and engineering teams alike.
- Data-driven mindset; ability to build and analyze product measurement systems (North Star, AARM, or pirate metrics).
- Proficiency in customer-driven prioritization methods, ability to identify and manage product risks across a diverse portfolio.
- Understanding of basic financial terminology, budgeting, and product business model design.
- Experience with Lean PLC, dual-track agile, and product discovery methods.
- Fluent English (written and spoken).
- Relevant background in a science-based field (Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, or related) or in scientific software (life sciences, pharma R&D, cheminformatics, bioinformatics) is an advantage.
What We Offer
- Hybrid work model: 8 days/month home office.
- Private health insurance (Medicover).
- Inspiring work environment with community events, innovation days, and recreational spaces.
- Everyday use of English.
- A supportive, creative, and multicultural agile team.
Location
Budapest, Váci Greens Office