Illumina
Sr. Staff Product Manager
US - California - San Diego · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$156k-$233kDetected 30 days ago
Product StrategyLogisticsBioinformaticsNGSResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know?
- Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.
- Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.
Responsibilities
- Provide product leadership for a complex, multi-year platform program, including business case framing, customer and market analysis, requirements definition, and strategic decision support.
- Lead market input to design decisions by understanding workflow needs, application requirements, competitive trends, and ecosystem dynamics (library prep, automation, informatics).
- Partner closely with R&D teams to translate customer needs and workflow insights into clear, testable product requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Drive cross-functional execution across chemistry, hardware, software, operations, and commercial stakeholders to ensure program alignment and readiness.
- Support cross-functional teams in modeling adoption patterns, sequencing volume drivers, workflow considerations, and platform economics to inform platform and portfolio decisions.
- Collaborate with Regional Marketing, Product Management, and the Commercial Organization to align on messaging, positioning, launch plans, and customer engagement strategies.
- Develop clear materials and frameworks to support executive decision-making, including product trade-offs, opportunity assessments, and roadmap recommendations.
- Work with commercial teams to create and deliver sales tools, positioning guidance, objection handling, and customer-facing content.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external partners, key opinion leaders, and ecosystem stakeholders to stay ahead of emerging customer and technology trends.
- Represent the platform strategy across internal teams and drive clarity on product direction, customer value, and business impact.
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree
- or 12 years and a Master's degree
- or a PhD with 8 years of experience
- Strong technical knowledge of NGS platforms, workflows, and high-throughput sequencing applications.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate customer insights, technical constraints, and business drivers into clear product strategy and requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a customer-first product leader, grounding product decisions in real customer workflows, technical realities, and long-term adoption dynamics.
- Experience working in highly cross-functional, matrixed environments with R&D, Operations, Finance, and Commercial teams.
- Proven analytical strength, with the ability to interpret complex data, model businesses cases and link analysis to strategic decisions.
- Experience supporting or launching products in clinical genomics, high-throughput research, or sequencing operations is highly desirable.
- Up to 3 0% travel may be required.
Compensation
- The estimated base salary range for the Sr.
Benefits
- At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world.
Company info
- Represent the customer as a critical member of the development core team, by advocating for their needs and ens uring trade off decisions do not impact Illumina's ability to serve our customers.
- Engage directly with high-throughput customers-genome centers, clinical labs, research institutes, and service providers-to bring a deep, workflow-informed voice of customer into product strategy and development.
- Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself.
- Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference.
- We are actively seeking an experienced Senior Staff Product Manager to join our High-Throughput Platforms team.
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