Senior Product Manager, Digital Laboratory Platforms
Thermo Fisher
Summary
Translate portfolio strategy and direction into platform priorities, roadmap recommendations, and scalable shared capabilities that enable multiple digital products and customer experiences.
Job description
Role Overview
- Lead product strategy execution for digital platform capabilities that serve multiple software products, workflows, and customer experiences across TDX.
- Translate portfolio vision and strategic priorities based on customer needs, business goals, technology trends, and the needs of product teams consuming the platform.
- Create leverage through reusable capabilities spanning data, analytics, AI, APIs, integrations, interoperability, and other shared digital services.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, architecture, data/AI, UX, security, commercial, regulatory, and business stakeholders to translate platform strategy into measurable outcomes.
- Operate with enterprise-level product judgment, balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health, adoption, extensibility, and business value.
Platform Product Planning & Lifecycle
- Develop and maintain platform product positioning, roadmap recommendations, and lifecycle plans aligned with portfolio strategy and priorities.
- Identify opportunities where common platform capabilities improve customer experience, reduce duplication, accelerate product delivery, or create new business value.
- Evaluate and recommend platform priorities using customer and product-team value, strategic fit, adoption potential, reuse, feasibility, risk, and platform sustainability.
- Develop platform opportunity assessments, business cases, and investment recommendations to inform portfolio prioritization.
- Establish platform success measures, including adoption, reuse, time-to-value, product-team enablement, and customer/business impact.
Platform Discovery & Ecosystem
- Lead discovery with external customers, internal product teams, commercial stakeholders, and technical partners to identify shared needs and ecosystem opportunities.
- Understand dependencies across products and identify opportunities for reusable capabilities, interoperability, and consistent customer experiences.
- Develop ecosystem and integration recommendations spanning APIs, partner capabilities, data exchange, and digital interoperability.
- Represent platform customer needs in enterprise product and technology discussions while maintaining clear product accountability.
AI, Data & Digital Capabilities
- Translate portfolio and product direction into requirements and recommendations for scalable AI-, analytics-, and data-enabled platform capabilities that can be leveraged across multiple products and customer journeys.
- Evaluate emerging AI and data technologies based on customer value, strategic relevance, feasibility, responsible-use considerations, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner with AI team to shape product opportunities and adoption strategies.
- Ensure recommendations and product decisions appropriately consider portfolio strategic direction.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Align senior stakeholders across product, engineering, UX, regulatory, quality, and business functions around platform priorities and trade-offs.
- Influence without direct authority across multiple product teams and organizational boundaries.
- Communicate complex platform direction and recommendations in a clear, outcome-oriented manner to senior leadership and technical/non-technical audiences.
Product Development & Delivery Partnership
- Partner with engineering to translate product strategy into coherent platform capabilities and delivery plans.
- Lead execution of approved platform roadmap priorities while maintaining focus on outcomes and enabling engineering teams to own detailed technical design and implementation.
- Identify and manage product-level dependencies, risks, sequencing, and trade-offs across teams and platform capabilities.
- Measure delivered capabilities against intended outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
- 8+ years of software product management experience, including demonstrated ownership of platform, enterprise, data, AI, or other complex multi-product capabilities
- Demonstrated experience defining complex software products or platforms
- Experience partnering with engineering and other technical teams on products involving APIs, integrations, data, analytics, or shared services
- Strong experience using customer, product, business, and operational data to make product decisions and measure outcomes
- Strong communication, prioritization, and cross-functional skills in a matrixed organization
- Experience in healthcare, diagnostics, life sciences, scientific, laboratory, clinical, or other regulated industries
- Experience building or scaling enterprise platforms, digital ecosystems, data products, analytics products, or AI-enabled products
- Experience with responsible AI, data governance, interoperability, privacy, security, or related enterprise considerations
- Familiarity with laboratory informatics, LIMS, LMS, ELN, or healthcare IT
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Health Incentive Programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- Family Support Programs
- Commuter Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Accident Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) Matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Company overview
Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software, and services for research, analysis, discovery, and diagnostics. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, and increasing laboratory productivity. Thermo Fisher serves pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions, and government agencies worldwide. The company operates through four business segments: Life Sciences Solutions, Analytical Instruments, Specialty Diagnostics, and Laboratory Products and Services.