Senior Product Manager, NGS applications

Location: Pleasanton, California, USA

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION

The Senior Product Manager – NGS applications is responsible for defining and executing the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for the company's next-generation sequencing (NGS) assay and content portfolio. This role has end-to-end ownership of the portfolio, with responsibility for identifying growth opportunities, translating customer and market needs into differentiated solutions, and driving business performance across research, translational, and clinical applications.

Working across Product Development, R&D, Bioinformatics, Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Commercial, Marketing, and Business Development, this individual will provide leadership across matrixed teams to translate customer and market insights into product strategy, requirements, and execution plans that drive portfolio growth and product excellence.

This role requires a strong combination of strategic product management, NGS market and technology expertise, customer focus, commercial acumen, and the ability to lead complex initiatives across a global matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, multi-year roadmap, and lifecycle management for the NGS assay and content portfolio.
• Provide leadership across matrixed teams supporting the NGS portfolio, establishing priorities, aligning stakeholders, and driving accountability for key initiatives.
• Identify and evaluate new application areas and growth opportunities based on unmet customer needs, market trends, emerging technologies, competitive intelligence, and business strategy.
• Develop a deep understanding of NGS customer workflows and identify opportunities to deliver differentiated solutions across research, translational, and clinical applications.
• Translate Voice of Customer and market insights into product requirements, roadmap priorities, and strategic investments.
• Lead market assessments and competitive analyses to understand market dynamics, emerging applications, technology trends, and opportunities for portfolio expansion.
• Define product requirements and lead cross-functional execution of new products, assay and content expansions, workflow improvements, and lifecycle enhancements.
• Partner closely with R&D and Bioinformatics to evaluate technical feasibility, establish product requirements, and bring differentiated NGS solutions to market.
• Drive portfolio prioritization and investment recommendations by balancing customer value, market opportunity, technical feasibility, business impact, and organizational capacity.
• Partner across business units to develop integrated NGS workflow solutions spanning sample preparation, assays and content, sequencing, software, and data analysis.
• Build relationships with key customers and scientific stakeholders to understand evolving NGS workflows, unmet needs, and emerging applications and incorporate these insights into portfolio strategy.
• Partner with Commercial and Business Development teams to identify and develop strategic growth opportunities, key customer collaborations, and partnerships.
• Partner with Commercial and Marketing to develop go-to-market strategies, product positioning, pricing recommendations, and customer adoption plans.
• Support portfolio planning, business case development, revenue forecasting, demand planning, and investment prioritization.
• Monitor portfolio performance, including revenue, growth, profitability, customer adoption, and other key business metrics, and develop actions to improve business performance.
• Serve as the Product Management subject matter expert for the NGS portfolio, providing strategic guidance to Commercial and cross-functional stakeholders on product capabilities, customer requirements, market dynamics, and portfolio priorities.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap, portfolio performance, investment recommendations, and key risks to Product Management and business leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement across the portfolio and establish scalable approaches to product and content lifecycle management.

Education

Bachelor's degree required; Ph.D., M.S., MBA, or equivalent experience preferred.

Experience

• Minimum of 8 years of related industry experience, with demonstrated experience in product management, strategic marketing, or related roles within genomics, molecular diagnostics, biotechnology, or life sciences.
• Proven success managing NGS, genomics, or molecular diagnostics products or portfolios through the full product lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of NGS technologies, workflows, and applications, including sample preparation, target enrichment, sequencing, bioinformatics, and data analysis.
• Strong understanding of the NGS market, competitive landscape, customer workflows, and emerging technology and application trends.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $155,100.00–$210,000.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

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, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

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

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards

Additional Locations: Carlsbad, California, USA