Head of Product

About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic, hands-on Head of Product to lead the product strategy and roadmap across our entire automated manufacturing portfolio. As Head of Product, you will own the end-to-end product lifecycle, working closely with engineering, biosciences, and commercial teams to translate complex customer needs into scalable, high-impact systems. This is a critical leadership position where you will build and mentor our product and biosciences teams, steer strategic roadmaps with global pharmaceutical partners, and help make transformative, life-saving therapies more accessible to patients.

Responsibilities

• Define, communicate, and execute the long-term product strategy and roadmap for our automated advanced biologics manufacturing systems, aligning platform development with key commercial milestones.
• Partner closely with the CEO, hardware, software, bioprocess, and quality leadership to drive a cohesive product vision, architecture, and product requirements.
• Hire, mentor, and scale high-performing product and biosciences teams.
• Oversee the Biosciences team in defining biological product requirements, executing internal cell testing, and partnering directly with pharma customers to analyze pilot data and demonstrate process comparability.
• Make decisive prioritization tradeoffs balancing custom customer requirements, core platform standardization, and ongoing engineering improvements.
• Serve as the primary product partner to executive leadership and cross-functional teams at major pharmaceutical client accounts, translating customer goals and needs into actionable product requirements.
• Collaborate with Business Development, Strategic Alliance Management, Supply Chain, and Engineering to ensure product readiness for customer deployments and platform launches.
• Drive systematic customer discovery, market analysis, and user interviews across the biopharma landscape to identify unmet clinical manufacturing needs and emerging industry trends.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3+ years directly managing and scaling a team of Product Managers.
• Proven track record leading complex hardware-software products—specifically involving robotics and electromechanical systems.
• Demonstrated success taking complex, technical products from concept (0-to-1) through deployment and commercial scale.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
• Superb executive communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills; thrive in a fast-paced, high-accountability startup environment.
• Hands-on proficiency with project and product management frameworks and tools (e.g. JIRA, Asana, SmartSheets).

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience within biotech, medical devices, laboratory automation, or pharmaceutical manufacturing.
• Experience operating within regulated development environments (e.g., FDA, cGMP, ISO 13485/9001 standards).
• Track record of scaling a product organization through early commercialization at a high-growth, venture-backed company.
• Experience navigating joint development milestones, pilots, and acceptance criteria with customers and partners.

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with advanced therapy (cell and gene, antibody, etc.) manufacturing or bioprocess development.
• Experience incorporating computer vision, machine learning, or AI capabilities into products.

Physical & Working Conditions

• Occasional use of PPE (lab coat, safety glasses, gloves) for customer site visits and deployment walk-throughs.
• Standard full-time schedule, with occasional evening/weekend flexibility required around critical customer deployments.