Staff Product Manager - Genomics Workflow Orchestration Platform

Illumina•San Diego, CA

6d•Remote

About The Position

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible. About the Role Clinical genomics labs today run multiple disconnected applications, creating manual handoffs, transcription errors, and significant integration overhead per site. The future of this space is a unified orchestration layer that connects every step from sample intake to clinical insight, powered by intelligent automation and AI. We’re building that future. As a Staff Product Manager on the Orchestration team, you’ll own the vision and execution of our workflow orchestration platform. You’ll define the capabilities, core concepts, and user experiences that tie together instruments, software systems, and data across the lab and drive adoption from early validation through broad market impact. This is a multi-year, career-defining opportunity to shape how genomics labs operate. It’s not a feature role: it’s a platform leadership role with the scope to define a new category. This is a role for a modern SaaS platform PM who thrives in ambiguity, thinks in systems, and raises the bar for clarity, design quality, and execution. You are also AI-forward in how you work: you use AI daily to research, validate assumptions, prototype ideas, draft narratives, and vibe-code functional proofs of concept. You see AI not as a novelty but as a core part of your operating model as a product manager. The Team You’ll join a team of PMs focused on the orchestration portfolio, reporting to the Director of Product Management. You’ll work closely with engineering, design, and data science partners dedicated to this platform, as well as adjacent product teams across workflow automation, on-prem orchestration, LIMS, and lab automation partnerships. This is a team that takes product craft seriously, embraces AI to work smarter, and believes the best ideas win regardless of where they come from.

Requirements

8+ years building SaaS products, platforms, or automation systems
Experience shipping a product from 0→1 or early stage through market validation
Experience with workflow engines, orchestration frameworks, or cloud platform architecture
Deep comfort with ambiguity and complex systems
A tasteful product sense with a strong POV on UX, information architecture, and simplicity
Exceptional communication and narrative writing
Demonstrated success leading multi-team efforts and influencing architecture
Demonstrated fluency with AI tools in your product management practice: you use AI for research, competitive analysis, prototyping, narrative drafting, data exploration, or vibe-coding functional proofs of concept. You don’t just talk about AI, you ship with it.

Nice To Haves

Track record of building platform products that other teams build on top of (internal platforms, developer ecosystems, integration layers)
Experience defining new categories or creating markets where none existed before
Experience with outcome-based, usage-based, or value-aligned pricing models
Comfort operating in regulated, compliance-sensitive, or safety-critical environments (any industry)
Familiarity with ML and AI patterns (model lifecycle, inference, data quality) beyond using AI tools
Domain experience in life sciences, diagnostics, lab automation, or scientific workflows is a plus but not required. We value product builders who can learn a domain fast over domain experts learning to build product

Responsibilities

Own the orchestration platform vision and roadmap
Define the long-term product strategy for how labs move from fragmented tools to unified orchestration
Prioritize across dry-lab orchestration, wet-lab automation integration, and high-volume lab scaling
Translate complex domain problems into clear product direction that engineering and design can execute against
Define and validate a pricing and packaging model that aligns platform value with customer outcomes
Define intelligent workflow automation that adapts based on conditions, context, and user intent
Drive AI-assisted decisioning: optimized batching, predictive QC, anomaly detection, and run-time recommendations
Design platform primitives that allow teams to build capabilities consistently and safely
Define APIs and integration contracts that internal teams and external partners build on confidently
Ensure auditability, traceability, and compliance-ready AI behavior is embedded from day one
Work with Design to create intuitive workflows that feel human-centered, not machine-centered
Drive clarity and simplicity into complex orchestration surfaces
Obsess over the details: interaction flows, observability, error handling, and user trust signals
Influence long-term architecture across engineering, data science, UX, quality, and scientific stakeholders
Coordinate with adjacent product teams on integration contracts and cross-product dependencies
Create crisp narratives that bring order to complex technical choices
Mentor PMs in systems thinking, customer empathy, and AI-enabled product development