Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Scientific Instrumentation

Thermo Fisher Scientific • South San Francisco, CA

4d • $150,000 - $190,000

About The Position

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a strategic Senior Product Manager to lead the development and commercialization of Autonomous Scientific Instrumentation designed to operate seamlessly within next-generation autonomous laboratory workflows. This role will define how core analytical and life sciences instruments evolve to become intelligent, self-optimizing, and interoperable components of integrated scientific ecosystems. The Senior Product Manager will drive product strategy in close collaboration with strategic customers and Thermo Fisher business units to ensure instruments are architected with standardized interfaces, real-time data exchange capabilities, and embedded intelligence that enable scalable integration across workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field with 10+ years of experience; advanced degree (MBA, MS, or PhD) preferred.
• Demonstrated experience driving cross-functional product strategies for life sciences
• Strong understanding of analytical and life sciences instrumentation architectures.
• Proven ability to develop business cases, financial models, and commercialization strategies for advanced technology platforms.
• Executive presence and ability to influence across global business units and external partners.
• Strategic systems thinker with disciplined execution capability.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder alignment skills in matrixed organizations.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term platform strategy for autonomous-ready scientific instrumentation aligned to corporate and business unit priorities.
• Develop structured market analyses, competitive landscapes, and investment theses to support portfolio decisions.
• Build multi-year roadmaps supported by data-driven prioritization and clear financial business cases.
• Collaborate with technology partners to align instrument architectures with advanced computing and acceleration platforms.
• Engage strategic external customers as co-innovation partners to validate autonomous instrument capabilities in real-world workflows.
• Represent Thermo Fisher in ecosystem discussions shaping future standards for intelligent laboratory systems.
• Lead structured voice-of-customer initiatives to identify high-impact workflow pain points and autonomy use cases.
• Translate customer insights into prioritized product requirements and differentiated value propositions.
• Balance near-term commercial opportunities with long-term autonomous platform strategy.
• Define new go to market models for autonomous instrumentation, including hardware, software, analytics, and service.
• Develop compelling customer value creation and workflow performance improvements.
• Drive adoption strategies that accelerate broad ecosystem development.
• Align business units on common architectural standards and shared development priorities.
• Partner with R&D, engineering, regulatory, and operations teams to execute stage-gate development programs.
• Define KPIs including interoperability adoption, workflow integration success, instrument intelligence utilization, and revenue growth.

Benefits

• We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonuses, healthcare coverage, and a comprehensive range of employee benefits.
• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level