Principal Product Designer

Job Title: Principal Product Designer

Location: Bangalore, India

Job Purpose:

The GSK Terminology Management platform serves up publicly available and internally specified terminologies across Research and Development. As part of the ecosystem, the Ontology Management Platform must both provide a repository for terminologies, alongside the tools and workflows for their governance. The primary purpose of this job is to work as part of a team who are accountable to develop and promote the use of terminologies, from simple reference lists to complex ontologies, and to serve them up in a FAIR and trustworthy manner, to the whole of GSK.

The success of the Principal Product Designer role is defined by their ability to translate diverse user requirements into actionable tech enhancements. The platform under their responsibility needs to be appropriately validated, compliant, and always ready for inspection. The Person must also maintain effective operational oversight, vendor management, stakeholder engagement, and customer support. Additionally, they must successfully support and input to system strategy, ensure data quality is being enforced adequately, and provide necessary project support, demonstrating effectiveness and accountability across the entire project stack. The Person will understand the value of FAIR semantics and help design a single Terminology Platform.

Why is this job critical?

This role will actively support and drive the terminology platform team. The Principal Product Designer will work with the Product Owner to drive FAIR semantics and create an interoperable, platform and suite of tools to enable both human and machine-actionable self-service interactions with terminologies across GSK R&D

Responsibilities:

·       Strategic Focus: Support system strategy in terms of a high-level view of whether to maintain, enhance, or divest the system. Develop strategic partnerships with internal business, IT groups, and external vendors.

·       Product Design: Drive design and development of the product to meet varied stakeholder requirements.

·       Semantic coherency: Drive FAIR interoperability through the harmonization of entities and derive their context through the addition of metadata and place them into context with other entities.

·       Operational Oversight: Working with the Product Owner, ensure day-to-day system operations are in place including governance and oversight, risk management, alignment to other systems and processes, maintenance of process maps, user documentation, training, and communications.

·       Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain stakeholder listing for issue escalation, general communication, and project participation. Maintain an engagement plan for regular education, business process improvements, customer forums, and data quality exercises.

Required Skills & Qualification:

·       Overall, 10-14 years of experience in IT

·       Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering

·       In-depth knowledge of semantic technologies, ontologies, and reference data, with practical experience in applying these concepts to product design.

Desirable skills:

·       Data governance

·       Workflow design

·       Documentation of compliant products and procedures