John O'Donnell

Staff Product Manager at Curebase

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

About

Product management leader with 15+ years of experience building and evolving healthcare and life sciences platforms. Proven ability to set product vision, align executive stakeholders, and guide teams from strategy through delivery across clinical research, data intelligence and AI-enabled solutions. Recognized for translating complex requirements into outcome-driven product roadmaps that deliver transformative solutions for customers and internal teams.

Experience

  • Staff Product Manager at Curebase
    Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

  • Principal Product Manager at eClinical Solutions
    Sep 2024 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

    - Oversaw product strategy for the Study Operations product area, representing elluminate platform and Operational Insights, elluminate's clinical operations analytics product - Developed product vision for Central Command, a concept to address study configuration challenges across customer environments, quantifying a 50% reduction in study rebuild effort through global library standardization and centralized study configuration. - Founded and scaled the Product Center of Excellence, implementing Scaled Agile workflows and an LMS curriculum to standardize high-performance product management practices across the company. - Established qualification framework for the product team to identify features fit for AI and advised enterprise clients on navigating AI implementation through risk-based GxP validation strategies. - Built and led a cross-functional team of Product Managers and a Senior Release Manager, focusing on career development and product ownership coaching. - Led standardization of Productboard as the enterprise roadmap tool, creating a strategic backlog hierarchy and prioritization models for portfolio visibility.

  • Staff Product Manager, Clinical Trials at Ronin
    Oct 2023 - Mar 2024 · 6 mos

    - Led product definition for an EHR-to-EDC integration developed in partnership with Oracle Life Sciences, aligning clinical, technical and commercial requirements. - Partnered with medical informaticists to evaluate and prioritize FHIR resources for transforming EHR data into trial-ready mappings. - Developed go-to-market positioning and sales enablement materials to support early customer conversations. - Conducted a strategic assessment of AI/ML opportunities in clinical research, informing executive decisions on where to invest.

  • Senior Product Manager at Elligo Health Research
    Sep 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    - Product manager for Root, an SMS-based patient recruitment and retention product supporting multi-site clinical trial campaigns. - Drove roadmap planning and delivery in close partnership with engineering, design and patient services leadership. - Delivered foundational capabilities such as global time zone support, cross-trial patient search and a centralized patient registry.

  • Senior Product Manager at WCG Trifecta
    Feb 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

    - Product lead for InvestigatorSpace, a clinical research site training and qualification management platform. - Introduced structured feature intake, prioritization criteria and roadmap governance with executive stakeholders. - Led delivery of a qualification registry and a client integration that automated account creation and training assignment, materially reducing manual onboarding effort for research site staff.