Staff Product Manager

About the Role:

We are seeking a Staff Product Manager, Instrumentation to lead the commercial efforts of our single cell instrumentation line. This position will report to the Director of Product Management, Single Cell, and will be responsible for a) leading the execution of product management activities for workflow automation, ensuring the right product concept, fit, requirements, and eventual launch of product(s), and b) leading instrument life cycle management efforts for the Chromium portfolio. This role will require deep collaboration with multiple stakeholders within the single cell product portfolio and marketing program management, marketing communications, sales, support, R&D, and operations teams. They will be responsible for owning the business case, financial assumptions and pricing, positioning, and portfolio fit for the single cell instrument product lines.

What you will be doing:

• Defines and maintains business plan for single cell instrumentation (benchtop and automation), including developing and integrated instrument strategy and roadmap and sustaining projects to drive improvements
• Interfaces with sales and customers regularly to characterize market needs and gaps, opportunities and trends, competitive and technology landscape for the single cell platform
• Serves as primary customer advocate during product development and sustaining projects to regularly evaluate feature requests and product enhancements; drives tradeoff decisions
• Works closely with manufacturing operations, quality, and support on product issues to ensure products meet customer expectations
• Collaborates with Regional Marketing, Global Marketing counterparts and Business Development to support marketing and sales enablement activities, as well activities related to strategic 3rd party partnerships
• Marketing lead for the instrument life cycle management team, defining prioritization, scope, and resourcing of sustaining projects for single cell instrumentation 
• Educates sales and regional marketing on the single cell product line positioning and specifications
• Designs / implements effective market and forecast models for single cell instrumentation with stakeholders to provide granularity at the regional, market, and segment level
• Sets pricing strategy and monitors key performance indicators to ensure single cell instrument portfolio delivers against product profitability goals

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in life science field – with experience in NGS methods
• 6 years of experience in product management or marketing in Life Sciences or Clinical industry.
• Strong technical knowledge of genomics, and/or next generation sequencing and molecular biology products
• Experience in hardware product management required including product launch
• Must have experience in customer interactions in either a Sales, Support, or Marketing function
• Must have experience creating financial models and business cases; strong Excel skills
• Experience conducting market research and developing detailed product requirements
• Demonstrated ability to develop long-term product strategies and go-to-market plans
• Must have proficient written, communication and presentation skills with the ability to present to diverse audiences
• Experience working in highly technical and cross-functional teams covering various internal organizations
• Ability to influence across the organization at all levels
• Exceptional time and project management skills and ability to prioritize competing requests
• Self-starter willing to work in a fast-paced environment
• Must be willing to travel up to 30%

Preferred Skills/Qualifications:

• PhD or advanced degree preferred

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