Senior Scientific Product Owner

Summary of the Role

As a Scientific Product Owner at Lhasa Limited, you will bridge scientific insight with product execution to deliver software that solves real chemical safety assessment problems. You will own outcomes across discovery, delivery, and iteration, ensuring our solutions reflect real scientific workflows in pharmaceutical and chemical domains and create measurable value for members and regulators. You will collaborate daily with scientists, software developers, application scientists, and member stakeholders to shape strategy, prioritise the backlog, and launch high quality, scientifically robust features and solutions.

Why Lhasa Limited?

We are a successful not-for-profit company and educational charity, with a great reputation for collaborative scientific development.

We develop meaningful science and software that supports the delivery of life-enhancing solutions including the development of safe chemicals to market including drugs and cosmetics as well as making a positive contribution to reducing animal testing.

Our charitable status enables us to make altruistic decisions for the public benefit and to work with some of the leading organisations in the world to really make a difference.

Our salaries are competitive dependent upon skills and experience. We also offer fantastic personal benefits including (but not limited to); 34 days holiday plus bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, healthcare cashback, PMI, free car parking at our office in Leeds City Centre and much more!

Main Responsibilities

Product strategy and vision

• Define and communicate a clear product vision grounded in scientific use cases, member needs, and Lhasa’s mission.
• Build and maintain a roadmap that aligns scientific value, regulatory reality, and technical feasibility.
• Own product outcomes after release – track impact and iterate to maximise value.

Discovery and scientific design

• Partner with application and research scientists to map end-to-end scientific workflows, data needs, and decision points across pharma and chemical safety.
• Translate scientific problems into well shaped opportunities, features, and testable hypotheses – with clear success metrics and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure designs uphold scientific integrity, traceability, and explainability, and consider validation and change control where applicable.

Delivery and backlog leadership

• Build a transparent backlog that balances scientific impact, risk, and effort – facilitate refinement, planning, and effective prioritisation.
• Act as voice of the customer and scientists to the team – provide clarity on the “what” and “why” to enable high quality delivery in increments.
• Build roadmaps and plan releases, ensuring the next increments are timely and value focused

Member and market engagement

• Embed member and stakeholder feedback loops – work with application scientists to gather insights – and translate them into prioritised improvements.
• Collaborate with colleagues on go-to-market, documentation, training, and release readiness to ensure adoption and measurable outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships with member experts and Lhasa’s scientific community.

Regulatory and domain awareness

• Understand the regulatory context that our members operate within and how it shapes product requirements, data quality, and evidence needs.
• Stay informed about industry trends in in silico assessment, data standards, and scientific software.

Ways of working

• Champion collaborative, outcome driven practices – support iterative delivery, lean documentation, and continuous discovery.
• Surface risks early, work with technology teams to plan delivery, facilitate trade-offs, and keep decisions visible.
• Contribute to product management standards and mentoring across teams.

About you

Essential

• Degree or higher in a relevant scientific field – e.g., chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, toxicology, metabolism, degradation, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated Product Owner or closely related product role experience in scientific or deeply technical software.
• Strong Agile skills – backlog management and prioritisation, user stories and acceptance criteria, facilitation of refinement and planning, and iterative delivery.
• Excellent communication across scientific and technical audiences – able to translate between problems, hypotheses, and buildable work.
• Evidence of using metrics and user insights to drive decisions

Desirable

• Professional experience in the pharmaceutical or chemical industries and familiarity with how science is performed in practice – experimental design, data interpretation, and peer review.
• Experience with regulatory concepts relevant to chemical safety and pharma workflows – e.g., how guidance like ICH M7 influences user needs and product decisions.
• Familiarity with validation, change control, and quality considerations in scientific software.
• Experience with data standards, interoperability, and FAIR principles in R&D contexts.

Our Culture

At Lhasa Limited, are committed to creating a work environment that fosters collaboration, innovation, and trust. We believe in building strong relationships within our team and with our members, working together towards our shared purpose – to enable informed decision making on chemical safety.

Lhasa Limited is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of background, and we’re happy to discuss accommodations that help you do your best work.