(Platform Core) Director, Software Product Management

Required Skills & Experience

15+ years of progressive product management experience within scientific, data, analytics, or developer-facing platforms. 7+ years of people management experience.

2+ years owning platform capabilities used by multiple applications, such as:

Data storage/services Workflow or pipeline execution Notebooks/interactive compute APIs Strong technical understanding with the ability to discuss software development, architecture, APIs, and operational tradeoffs with Engineering. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, Life Sciences, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Experience with enterprise SaaS, data, scientific, life sciences, health tech, genomics, or regulated software platforms. Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP. Familiarity with cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and customer-cloud deployment models. Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Experience with design controls or ISO 13485 is a plus. Strong cross-functional leadership across Engineering, UX/Design, Quality, Sales, and Marketing.

Job Description

We are seeking a Director of Software Technical Product Management to lead product strategy for a core software platform supporting data management, workflow execution, interactive analysis, and application experiences.

This leader will manage a team of 4–6 Product Managers and partner closely with Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to build scalable platform capabilities used across multiple software applications.

Key Responsibilities

Own the product strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for core platform capabilities. Lead products supporting data storage and movement, workflow/pipeline execution, sample and project management, notebooks, APIs, and platform UX. Improve time-to-first-analysis, workflow reliability, data reliability, and platform adoption. Partner with Engineering on architecture, performance, reliability, scalability, and technical debt. Define product requirements for cloud and on-prem platform capabilities. Lead go-to-market strategy, product positioning, sales enablement, demos, and launches for major platform capabilities. Support strategic customer conversations related to platform architecture, roadmap, and reliability. Lead, coach, and develop a team of 4–6 technical Product Managers. Partner across product teams to ensure platform investments support broader portfolio goals.