Telefónica Alpha
Alpha
is Telefónica’s big bets innovation company. Telefónica is a telephone
company with 320 million customers which operates in Europe (UK, Spain,
Germany) and in Latin America.
alpha, with a solid backing,
and access to massive data sets is building a team to work on
groundbreaking and life changing projects and products in the health
sector.
Alpha Health
Worldwide,
healthcare costs have been increasing faster than GDP for 50 years,
whilst key indicators such as life expectancy have plateaued in many
countries. The root cause is a change in disease burden – across the
world, today’s biggest diseases and biggest killers are chronic diseases
such as cancer, heart attack, stroke, and mental health disorders. In fact, for every life saved from infections since 2000, we’ve lost two lives to chronic disease.
However,
it’s now well-established that the main cause of chronic diseases is
everyday behaviours such as poor diet, lack of exercise, using tobacco,
excessive alcohol, or lack of sleep. In 2008 the official leading
cause of death in the US became personal choices; yet healthcare systems
today are simply not designed to help people change these root causes
of chronic disease. To make tackling everyday behaviours even
harder, pioneers in neuroscience and behavioural economics have begun to
reveal that people are not even really in conscious control of their
behaviour. We’re learning that attention is such a scarce resource that
we make many decisions – big and small – using automatic (and
unconscious) processes. It appears that the best way to tackle
chronic disease is to help people optimise their happiness – using the
basic drive for happiness to steer everyday behaviours.
At
Alpha, we believe that advances in neuroscience, mobile computing, and
machine learning now mean we can help people to take control of their
own behaviour, optimise their life, and limit the effects of unhealthy
behaviour on their bodies and their minds.
We believe that
doing this will help people to manage and prevent a range of chronic
diseases and help make personal changes that will improve their
satisfaction with their life. To achieve this, we are using
cutting-edge digital insights and the smart, real-time interpretation of
data to develop targeted tools, built around each user.
Of
course, we recognize the myriad challenges involved in this work. We
are working systematically with our team of diverse minds in science,
engineering and design to build breakthrough solutions to meet these
challenges head-on. To support our work, we are partnering with the
best academics, developers, companies, and professionals around the
world.
Our offices are in an iconic building located right by
the Mediterranean Sea and close to the vibrant innovation and start-up
business area of Barcelona.
Creating a platform for impact
Partnership
is a vital part of how we work at Alpha, because it both improves our
thinking by bringing in fresh perspectives, and facilitates the scaling
of impact. For both of these reasons Alpha Health is seeking to build a
platform that will facilitate the creation of a wide range of tools and
interventions that can support a diverse global user base, across a wide
range of use-cases, to improve their happiness and health.
The
success of our platform depends on creating compelling value
propositions for researchers and developers, who can supply the wide
range of tools to our users. We believe that this requires: helping
researchers and developers undertake research and build high impact
tools as rapidly and cost effectively as possible; helping to bridge the
‘valley of death’ that currently exists between research and
development; and ensuring that our user’s needs are translated into
clear demand signals for researchers and developers.
We
are establishing a team to take forward this thinking into an exciting
and world-first product. The team will include engineers and designers,
with access to the wider talent of Alpha Health as a whole. To get us
started, we are looking for a Product Manager to lead this team in
creating the Research and Development Platform.
You will work on
Work with the user research team on understanding your customers
Testing out service and product ideas using prototypes
Test our different options using A/B testing/multivariate testing
Communicate with and manage stakeholders
Take lead of scrum teams as the Product Manager/Owner
Define and implement a KPI and analytics plan to measure impact
Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
Plan
and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
according to user feedback, analytics, business value or ROI
Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
Collaborate with data science team on integrating algorithms into products
Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
Create new platform products
As
we are starting with a blank slate, we are searching for someone
familiar with managing creating and testing new products and concepts,
in particular the creation of platforms (i.e. products that facilitate
the creation of products by third parties). You are familiar with lean
startup, concept and prototype testing, user testing and lean
analytics.
Experience with development teams
As
our products are mostly digital you will have experience developing and
launching products on mobile and web. It would be great if you launched
products for developers or in the health space.
Diverse team
Along
with data scientists, neuroscientists, user researchers, designers,
strategists and developers you will work to create new services and have
a direct impact on the success of the product. People in our team are
from diverse backgrounds as Finland, Holland, US, Russia, Serbia,
Greece, Spain and Venezuela and we normally talk in english (or
spanish). We try to keep our processes as light as possible and apply
lean startup, lean UX and a lot of prototyping.
On the beach
Our
offices are literally on the beach in Barcelona and the views across
the city and the see are great. Barcelona is known for its good food,
architecture and weather.
Visa & relocation support
As
most of us are not from Spain, we know that some help is needed with
moving and getting a Visa. We will support you with that process (and
your family).
Experience
We are
looking for people with 10+ years experience in creating customer and
business facing digital services, products, and platforms from scratch.
You have experience in working with developers and researchers and
ideally worked on creating services/products for them.
As
our products are mostly digital you will have experience developing and
launching products on mobile and web. It would be great if you launched
products for developers or in the health space.
Languages
As
we are testing (remotely) in various countries, high level of written
and spoken level of English is required, Spanish, very highly valued.
Portuguese and German are a plus.