At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.
The PositionAs a business product owner, you will work within an agile team, contributing to the creation and delivery of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products and solutions that fulfill customer needs. This role requires close collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals and user requirements throughout the product development lifecycle.
What You Bring to the TableYou aren’t just a backlog manager; you are the strategic bridge between digital learning innovation and business value. You understand that a great learning experience isn't just about pushing content—it’s about engagement, seamless architecture, and driving a clear return on investment.
To thrive in this role, you should bring a mix of the following skills, mindsets, and experiences:
The Digital Learning Acumen- EdTech Ecosystem Savvy: Solid grasp of modern learning ecosystems (LMS/LXP, content authoring, resource management) and how to integrate them.
Vendor Fluency
B2B / External Mindset: Understands the high level of polish, security, and value required when building platforms for external customers vs. internal training.
Business & Product Strategy
- ROI & Value-Driven: Translates feature requests into hard metrics and business cases, ruthlessly prioritizing the backlog based on data and clear ROI.
Data & Architecture Thinking: Partners with IT architects to ensure seamless, scalable, and simple end-to-end learning data flows.
Collaboration & Agile Leadership
Agile Execution: Collaborates closely with Dev, UX, and QA teams to translate a broad business vision into crisp, actionable user stories.
Stakeholder Diplomacy: A master communicator who aligns senior leadership, business process owners, and diverse teams with clarity and empathy.
Continuous Improvement: Monitors support data, user feedback, and SLAs to ensure the platform constantly evolves post-launch.
Additional Tasks:
- Demonstrate the We@RD dimensions and help evolve the function's cultural beliefs and bring We@Roche Diagnostics to life as part of the TransformD journey. The dimensions are:
- We are passionate about our customers and patients
- We radically simplify
- We trust, collaborate & have fun
- We ALL lead
- We experiment & learn
Who are you?
Experience: 3-5+ years as an Agile Product Owner or Product Manager.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, or a related field; Agile certifications (CSPO/PSPO) preferred.
Ecosystems: Strong grasp of learning ecosystems (LMS/LXP).
B2B / External Focus: Proven track record managing digital platforms for
external clients or commercial customers (not just internal HR training).Business Acumen: Ability to build data-driven business cases, define KPIs, and ruthlessly prioritize backlogs based on ROI.
Technical Literacy: Comfortable partnering with IT architects on data flows, platform integrations, and system scalability.
Roche Culture Fit (We@RD): Demonstrates a mindset for radical simplification, data-driven experimentation, and leading without direct authority.
Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Sant Cugat del Vallès. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- 3-5+ years of experience as an Agile Product Owner or Product Manager
- Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, or a related field
- Strong understanding of learning ecosystems, including LMS and LXP platforms
- Experience managing digital platforms for external clients or commercial customers
- Ability to build data-driven business cases, define KPIs, and prioritize backlogs based on ROI
- Technical literacy in data flows, platform integrations, and system scalability
- Ability to partner with IT architects on learning platform architecture
- Ability to translate business vision into actionable user stories
- Experience collaborating with development, UX, and QA teams in an agile environment
- Strong stakeholder communication and alignment skills
- Agile certification such as CSPO or PSPO
- Mindset focused on radical simplification, data-driven experimentation, and leading without direct authority
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
Roche Insights
What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
