Product Manager, NGS

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

Requirements:

• 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