Job Description

The Research and Development Sciences (RaDS) value team in R&D IT brings together product management, engineering, and data science expertise to enable data and technology products and services that accelerate our scientists’ ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health. Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation and advance the drug discovery and development pipeline.

We are seeking an energetic and collaborative person to join the R&D IT Research and Development Sciences (RaDS) Product organization. As a Product Analyst in the Composition of Matter – Develop & Make Product, you will be part of a team tasked with delivering digital capabilities that help scientists develop laboratory-scale processes and controls for various modalities of composition of matter (small molecules, peptides, conjugates, biologics, etc). This includes creating efficient foundational platforms needed to execute both in silico and physical lab experimentation, modeling, and analytics with high quality, frictionless dataflows to enable laboratory development and scale up.

The Product Analyst works on cross-functional teams that bring together science, technologies, capabilities, and talent to create products that deliver high impact business value, insight, and a fantastic user experience to scientists throughout the life cycle of the solution.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Maintain assigned applications as technical owner throughout their lifecycles

• Maintain a high level of relevant scientific & technology domain knowledge

• Know the associated user base and their challenges as well as they do

• Understand external landscape and make comparisons to make product decisions

• Collaborate with Product Manager to establish goals and workplans

• Execute assigned work in backlog & roadmap ranging from product discovery through product delivery and testing

Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in technology product development working with scientists OR professional scientific experience related to chemistry or biochemistry is considered to be a must

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) or equivalent in a scientific discipline such as engineering, biology, or chemistry or a technical discipline such as computer science is preferred but not needed

• Strong communication and problem-solving skills, ability to work in matrixed environments, eagerness to learn, and drive for data-driven decision making

• Experience with Jira, Jira Align, OKR tools (e.g., Workboard), Confluence, and Agile methodologies (scrum, Kanban etc.) is preferred

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and other discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone, company car

• Parking in the garage for drivers or showers for bikers

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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Required Skills:

Agile Methodology, Analytical Thinking, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Biology, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Science, Data-Driven Decision Making, IT Problem Solving, IT Requirements, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Problem Analysis, Problem Solving, Product Analysis, Product Development, Product Requirements Analysis, Requirements Specification, Technology Development, Technology Product Development, User Requirements, Willingness to Learn

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

Yes

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Job Posting End Date:

02/22/2026

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