Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Watchmaker Genomics is hiring a Product Manager, NGS to support its NGS DNA portfolio. The role drives portfolio growth through product development, application expansion, commercialization, and lifecycle management, working cross-functionally with R&D, sales, and other teams.
Responsibilities
- Serve as an organizational expert and champion for the DNA NGS portfolio, with the flexibility to support and represent adjacent portfolios as needed
- Translate market and customer needs into prioritized product requirements, partnering with R&D to evaluate technical feasibility and make informed tradeoffs across customer value, development effort, commercial potential, and strategic fit
- Partner with sales to engage with key customers and cultivate collaborations to drive innovative product solutions, penetrate key application areas, and support broader product adoption
- Translate customer, market, competitive, and technical insights into product strategy and differentiated value propositions, partnering with Product Marketing on positioning, messaging, commercialization, and sales enablement
- Manage all product management facets of product commercialization and lifecycle management, inclusive of but not limited to market assessments, global pricing strategies, documentation, sales training, and demand planning
- Manage cross-functional collaborations (R&D, Support, Sales, Quality, and Operations) to ensure successful implementation of product requirements and drive new product development to commercial launch
- Develop and execute product and application strategies for assigned portfolio areas, including market opportunity assessment, customer segmentation, competitive landscape, business case development, roadmap priorities, and lifecycle investment decisions
- Own lifecycle performance for assigned products, monitoring revenue, adoption, customer feedback, competitive dynamics, quality trends, and product performance to identify opportunities and proactively address risks
- Create and maintain competitive assessments, market trends, and product performance
- Lead portfolio communication and stakeholder alignment across the organization, including regular business reviews and leadership updates; proactively surface and escalate risks, issues, opportunities, tradeoffs, and decisions needed; and drive cross-functional accountability and resolution
Skills
- Demonstrated technical expertise in NGS workflows, including library preparation, sequencing, and data interpretation, with experience in core molecular biology techniques
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Results-oriented, with the ability to multitask, work at a high standard, perform consistently under pressure along with pre-determined deadlines, and work without supervision
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work as an effective member of a team
- Excellent communication and personal task management skills and a high level of self-motivation and initiative
- Proven ability to influence & gain consensus in cross-functional teams, and to work effectively with customers, development, and sales teams
- Experience in presenting technical information to groups with various scientific backgrounds
- Creative and critical thinking skills to anticipate customer needs and proactively solve problems
- Track record of success defining and launching products
- Experience in documenting customer/product requirements and applying risk-informed decision-making within a quality management system
- MSc degree in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, or an associated scientific field required
- Minimum of 4 years industry relevant experience, including R&D
- Experience being part of a new product development core team or project required
- Product Management experience is preferred
- Customer-facing roles considered a plus
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Flexible Time Off
- Holidays
- Employer covers 75% of base medical plan with buy-up options
- EAP (employee assistance program)
- Employer paid dental
- Employer paid vision
- Employer paid $25,000 life/AD&D policy
- Paid parental leave
- A 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% match
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