Product Manager, Autonomous Laboratories
About The Position
The Product Manager, Autonomous Laboratories will help define and deliver solutions for customers moving toward connected, automated, and intelligent laboratory environments. The role works directly with customers to understand their scientific workflows, technology environments, unmet needs, and future direction, translating those insights into product requirements and priorities. It partners across product, software, hardware, engineering, and innovation teams to shape solutions that address customer problems. The position sits at the intersection of science, technology, customers, and product management. It calls for deep expertise in a relevant scientific or technology domain and the ability to connect that expertise to a broader autonomous-laboratory vision. The role also helps shape product strategy and roadmaps, evaluates emerging technologies, develops integrated end-to-end solutions, and represents the customer throughout product development and prioritization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in a scientific, engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in a relevant scientific, laboratory, instrumentation, automation, or technology domain.
- Demonstrated experience leading product strategy, portfolio direction, and strategic planning for complex technical products or solutions.
- Experience engaging directly with customers to identify unmet needs and translate those needs into product requirements.
- Strong understanding of how hardware, software, data, and workflows come together in complex technical environments.
- Ability to work effectively with engineering and R&D organizations and translate between customer, scientific, business, and technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and lead cross-functional initiatives in a complex global organization.
- Strong strategic thinking and ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into actionable product direction.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline.
- Experience with laboratory automation, integrated laboratory systems, scientific software, robotics, workflow automation, instrument connectivity, or data-driven laboratory environments.
- Experience developing solutions that combine physical instrumentation with software and automation.
- Experience working with highly technical customers in regulated, scientific, industrial, or R&D environments.
- Experience helping bring emerging technologies from concept or customer pilot into scalable commercial products.
- Understanding of AI-enabled scientific workflows or intelligent laboratory systems.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a product leader for autonomous laboratory solutions within a specific scientific, laboratory, or technology domain.
- Engage directly with customers to understand workflows, pain points, automation requirements, technology gaps, and emerging needs.
- Translate customer needs into product requirements, use cases, priorities, and solution concepts for product and engineering teams.
- Develop a deep understanding of customer workflows, including interactions among instrumentation, software, automation, data, and laboratory processes.
- Identify gaps in existing capabilities and opportunities for new products, integrations, or solutions that create differentiated customer value.
- Partner with software engineering, hardware engineering, R&D, product organizations, commercial teams, and innovation functions.
- Help shape product strategy and roadmaps supporting the evolution toward increasingly automated and autonomous laboratories.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and their potential application within laboratory environments.
- Work across traditionally separate product areas to create integrated, end-to-end customer solutions.
- Represent the voice of the customer throughout product development and prioritization.
- Build relationships with strategic customers and use those relationships to test assumptions and refine product direction.
- Communicate product vision, customer requirements, priorities, and trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders.
Benefits
- Eligibility for bonus and stock.
- Benefits are offered; specific benefits are not detailed in the posting.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
