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The PositionTechnical Product Owner - Legal - RDT Group Functions
We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Owner to support and drive the strategic vision, technical architecture, and end-to-end product delivery for Roche's global Legal technology ecosystem. Partnering directly with Business Product Owners, practice group leads, and senior leadership across Legal
Operations and Patents & Trademarks, you will translate complex corporate legal requirements into scalable, enterprise-grade digital products across both the Pharma and Diagnostics divisions.
Operating at an advanced level, this role moves beyond tactical backlog execution to take senior ownership of product roadmaps, cross-functional team alignment, and the day-to-day delivery of stable teams. Sitting within RDT Group Functions, you will lead the Legal stable squads, mentor both internal and external team members, and establish robust technology governance aligned with Legal and Compliance Strategic Ambitions.
About Our Team: RDT Legal Product
We partner with Legal to enable efficiency and effectiveness through domain-specific solutions, working hand-in-hand to blend IT expertise with business know-how and support their digital journey at every step.
Our Legal Product covers solutions for spend and matter management, document management, contract lifecycle management, workflows, and reporting—which we build (or buy), manage, and operate.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy, Portfolio Architecture & Roadmap Ownership
- Drive Global Product Strategy: Collaborate with Business Product Owners and IT Leadership to define multi-year technical product strategies that fulfill L&C’s strategic pillars (Compliance by Design, Unified Access, and AI Enablement).
- Data & AI Domain Integration: Spearhead the integration of legal platforms with the L&C Data Hub and Snowflake data domain, deploying AI/LLM solutions (e.g., Luminance, Harvey, Legora) while ensuring strict adherence to C4 secret data privacy and attorney-client privilege boundaries.
- Target State Architecture: Conduct comprehensive gap analyses between current-state technical architectures and target-state enterprise models to guide sustainable, high-velocity product roadmaps.
Advanced Business Requirements & Process Analysis
- Value Quantification & ROI: Develop comprehensive business cases, cost-benefit models, and impact assessments that quantify tangible outcomes (cost savings, hours released, risk mitigation) for leadership review.
- Complex Process Discovery: Lead deep-dive discovery workshops across global legal practice areas to map multi-jurisdictional workflows, identify systemic friction, and engineer automated, self-service solutions.
- Specification Standards: Translate ambiguous business demands into rigorous technical specifications, detailed process maps, and comprehensive user story backlogs.
Vendor Selection, RFP Leadership & Commercial Governance
- Lead Vendor RFP Processes: Direct technical vendor evaluations and RFPs for enterprise Legal Tech SaaS solutions, defining criteria, technical scorecards, and architectural fit-for-purpose assessments.
- Procurement & Security Due Diligence: Partner with Procurement, Information Security (SRA), and Quality teams to execute rigorous due diligence, enforcing Roche's security, privacy, and data protection standards for sensitive legal data.
- Commercial & SLA Management: Oversee vendor relationships, Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), SLA performance, cloud analytics, and license utilization checks in partnership with RDT Leadership.
Cross-Divisional Stakeholder Management & One Roche Alignment
- Reconcile Complex Requirements: Harmonize conflicting stakeholder demands across global divisions (Pharma, Diagnostics, Genentech/US, Basel HQ, APAC), utilizing data-driven prioritization frameworks to align on unified solutions.
- Executive Influence & Diplomacy: Act as a trusted thought partner to senior legal leaders, communicating complex technical trade-offs, risks, and platform limitations cleanly without jargon.
Product Delivery & Lifecycle Management
- End-to-End Solution Ownership: Own technical solution definitions from ideation through delivery, hypercare, adoption, and operational transition.
- Agile Execution & Quality Gates: Define incremental release goals, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and UAT plans that guarantee defensible, high-quality product releases.
- Technical Debt & Stack Rationalization: Proactively track and prioritize technical debt, system bugs, and minor enhancements while recommending redundant legacy systems (e.g., OnitX, SharePoint 2016) for clean sunsetting.
- Application Health & L2/L3 Escalation: Serve as the senior technical escalation point for Level 2/3 support pipelines, ensuring system uptime, performance monitoring, and seamless vendor patch/release deployments.
Team Leadership, Mentoring & Culture
- Lead & Inspire Squads: Guide multi-functional delivery teams (Engineers, BAs, Solution Architects, Scrum Masters) through clear technical vision, high standards, and psychological safety.
- Mentorship & Capability Building: Actively mentor less experienced Product Owners and Business Analysts, elevating team capabilities in scope management, vendor governance, and technical specification.
Who You Are:
Qualifications & Experience:
- Education: Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Informatics, Law & Technology, or a related field.
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in IT Product Management, Technical Business Analysis, or Engineering Leadership, with significant exposure to enterprise corporate solutions.
- Agile Leadership: Deep mastery of Scrum and Kanban frameworks, backlog prioritization models, user story mapping, dependency management, and multi-stream delivery.
- Legal Domain Knowledge: Strong familiarity with corporate legal operations, eBilling/matter management, contract lifecycle management (CLM), document management, or legal compliance workflows.
- Languages: Full professional fluency in English (written and spoken) is required.
- Work Model: Ability to work in our Warsaw office 2 days per week under Roche’s hybrid model, with flexibility to align with North American (SSF) time zones when required.
Technical & System Architecture Expertise
- Enterprise Platforms: Solid understanding of SaaS architectures, cloud hosting models, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Legal Tech Landscape: Hands-on experience or architectural knowledge of legal platforms such as Brightflag, Onit, iManage, Luminance, ServiceNow, OutSystems, or Snowflake data feeds.
- Emerging Technologies: Active enthusiasm for AI/LLM applications, automated workflow engines, and data analytics in legal contexts.
Stakeholder Engagement, Influence & Communication
- Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to build trust and influence senior business executives, translating between business objectives and engineering choices.
- Conflict Resolution: Proven diplomacy and negotiation skills to resolve cross-functional friction and achieve consensus across distributed global teams.
Problem Solving & Strategic Mindset
- Enterprise Thinking: Ability to connect immediate technical tasks to broader enterprise strategy and long-term organizational value.
- Pragmatic & Decisive: Comfortable navigating ambiguity, making tough trade-off calls, and delivering incremental value with speed and precision.
What You Get:
- Salary range 19,100-35,400 PLN gross based on the employment contract.
- Annual bonus payment based on your performance (target 20%).
- Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.
- Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter).
- Take Time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose).
- Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time).
- Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice).
- Stock share purchase additions.
- Yearly sales of company equipment and many more!
Are you ready to accelerate Roche’s vision for cutting-edge digital Legal solutions that ultimately drive better outcomes for patients? Join us as we architect the future of our Legal product domain within Group Functions.
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Skills Required
- Experience conducting business analysis, requirements elicitation, and process modeling in a Legal environment.
- Ability to develop business cases and perform cost-benefit analyses quantifying business value.
- Strong understanding of legal processes in global corporate and pharmaceutical/diagnostics contexts.
- Experience with requirements management tools, workflow mapping, and documentation methodologies.
- Understanding of IT systems, databases, and platform architectures.
- Experience with product lifecycle management and delivering solutions through implementation and adoption.
- Experience with vendor selection, developing RFPs, evaluation frameworks, and procurement collaboration.
- Experience supporting user acceptance testing (UAT), change management, and training based on business impact analysis.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, communication, and conflict resolution skills across global multifunctional teams.
- Knowledge of AI and automation applied to legal solutions.
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.
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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).
