Product Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, Business, Engineering, or related field required.
• 10+ years of product management, portfolio management, marketing, commercial, scientific, or business leadership experience within life sciences, molecular diagnostics, genomics, analytical instrumentation, or related industries.
• 5+ years of direct people management experience, including coaching, performance management, talent development, and organizational leadership.
• Demonstrated success leading product management teams and developing high-performing talent.
• Proven experience owning portfolio strategy, roadmap development, commercialization, lifecycle management, and business performance.
• Strong financial and business acumen with experience managing revenue growth, profitability, business cases, and investment decisions.
• Demonstrated success influencing executive stakeholders and driving outcomes within complex global matrix organizations.
• Deep understanding of product management principles, portfolio strategy, and lifecycle management.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and talent development capabilities.
• Excellent strategic thinking, business planning, and financial analysis skills.
• Strong executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence across organizational levels and functions.
• Experience leading global, cross-functional teams in a matrix environment.
• Customer-focused mindset with strong commercial and market orientation.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, MS, PhD, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.
• Experience with forensic DNA workflows, human identification markets, molecular biology, genomics, or related technologies strongly preferred.
• Ability to travel globally as business needs require.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global product management team responsible for the Human Identification portfolio.
• Own portfolio vision, strategy, roadmap, lifecycle management, and investment priorities across HID instruments, consumables, chemistries, assays, software, workflows, and platform solutions.
• Align portfolio strategy and roadmap priorities with division strategy, customer needs, market opportunities, and financial objectives.
• Define and prioritize portfolio investments while balancing customer value, technical feasibility, operational requirements, competitive differentiation, and business impact.
• Lead strategic trade-off discussions and portfolio prioritization decisions across assigned products, workflows, applications, software, assays, and platforms.
• Drive long-term portfolio planning, growth strategies, lifecycle sustainment, and end-of-life decisions.
• Develop business cases and investment recommendations to support innovation, market expansion, and long-term business growth.
• Establish and champion a strong voice-of-customer culture across the product management organization.
• Translate unmet customer needs, workflow pain points, market trends, and competitive insights into differentiated product requirements and roadmap priorities.
• Build executive-level relationships with forensic laboratories, government agencies, key opinion leaders (KOLs), strategic partners, and customers.
• Ensure customer and workflow insights are integrated into portfolio planning, innovation prioritization, and business strategy decisions.
• Represent customer and market perspectives in leadership discussions and portfolio governance processes.
• Monitor market dynamics, competitive activity, technology trends, and regulatory developments impacting the human identification market.
• Partner with R&D leadership to shape customer-backed new product innovation (NPI), workflow automation initiatives, software and AI-enabled solutions, and adjacent market opportunities.
• Drive innovation prioritization and investment recommendations based on customer, market, technical, and financial insights.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiency, laboratory productivity, customer experience, and portfolio differentiation.
• Support development of future platform strategies and integrated workflow solutions that strengthen market leadership and customer value.
• Ensure product management resources effectively support innovation programs from concept through commercialization.
• Lead portfolio positioning, market segmentation, pricing strategy, value proposition development, and commercialization planning.
• Partner with Commercial, Marketing, and Regional leadership teams to ensure launch readiness, customer adoption, and market success.
• Drive competitive positioning, sales enablement, customer messaging, and go-to-market execution across the portfolio.
• Maintain accountability for portfolio revenue performance and achievement of growth objectives.
• Ensure alignment between product strategy, commercial priorities, and business objectives.
• Own portfolio business performance, including revenue growth, profitability, market share, and return on investment.
• Lead annual operating planning, portfolio reviews, forecasting, and long-range strategic planning activities.
• Develop financial analyses, investment recommendations, and business cases supporting strategic portfolio decisions.
• Monitor portfolio performance metrics and implement actions to achieve financial and strategic objectives.
• Partner with Finance and Business Leadership to drive sustainable growth and profitability.
• Directly lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers supporting the HID portfolio.
• Establish clear performance expectations, development plans, and career growth opportunities for team members.
• Build strong product management capabilities across customer insight generation, strategic planning, financial acumen, commercialization, and portfolio management.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, customer focus, and continuous learning.
• Develop future product management leaders through coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Establish and reinforce product management standards, operating mechanisms, and best practices across the organization.
• Build organizational bench strength and leadership readiness to support future business needs.
• Serve as a key member of the HID business leadership team.
• Drive alignment across R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Commercial, Marketing, and Finance functions.
• Influence business strategy, investment priorities, and portfolio decisions through data-driven recommendations and stakeholder engagement.
• Partner closely with the Director of Product Management on portfolio governance, organizational planning, talent development, and business strategy.
• Demonstrate readiness for broader leadership responsibilities through strategic thinking, organizational influence, and business leadership.

Benefits

• competitive remuneration
• annual incentive plan bonus
• healthcare
• 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
• short- and long-term disability
• 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