Vice President, Core Product Management

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Portfolio Leadership

• Define and lead the global product strategy, vision, roadmap, and investment priorities for the assigned portfolio.
• Translate enterprise strategy, market trends, customer needs, competitive dynamics, and emerging science into clear product priorities.
• Own product lifecycle management from concept through development, launch, growth, maturity, and rationalization.
• Make disciplined portfolio trade-offs based on market opportunity, customer value, technical feasibility, regulatory requirements, financial return, and strategic fit.
• Partner with Business Units, R&D, and other Commercial leaders to ensure the product portfolio supports growth, profitability, and long-term competitive differentiation.
• Establish clear portfolio governance, decision rights, and product operating rhythms across the matrix.

Customer, Market & Scientific Insight

• Build a deep understanding of customer workflows across research, clinical, diagnostic, biopharma, translational, and applied markets.
• Ensure product decisions are grounded in voice-of-customer, market intelligence, competitive insight, and real-world customer pain points.
• Partner with Market Research, Commercial, Scientific Affairs, and regional teams to identify unmet needs, market expansion opportunities, and customer adoption barriers.
• Serve as an external-facing product leader with key customers, KOLs, strategic partners, and industry stakeholders.
• Anticipate shifts in biotechnology, genomics, diagnostics, data/AI, automation, and workflow integration that may create new product or platform opportunities.

Cross-Functional Product Execution

• Partner closely with R&D, Engineering, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Manufacturing, Commercial, Finance, and regional teams to advance product priorities.
• Drive clear product requirements, business cases, launch readiness, and lifecycle plans.
• Ensure strong alignment between product strategy, technical development, regulatory pathways, manufacturability, customer experience, and go-to-market execution.
• Create clarity in a matrixed environment by defining roles, decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability across functions.
• Remove barriers, resolve trade-offs, and ensure timely decision-making on critical product and portfolio issues.

Commercial & Financial Performance

• Own product-level business performance, including revenue growth, margin contribution, adoption, retention, portfolio health, and market share.
• Partner with Commercial, Finance, and Pricing teams on pricing strategy, segmentation, forecasting, and revenue planning.
• Support launch excellence through clear positioning, value proposition, claims strategy where applicable, customer training, sales enablement, and regional readiness.
• Partner with Commercial teams to understand field feedback, customer adoption patterns, competitive pressure, and product performance in market.
• Use data and business metrics to evaluate product success and adjust priorities as needed.

Product Organization Leadership

• Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing Product Management team.
• Build product management capability, discipline, and consistency across portfolio strategy, lifecycle management, roadmap planning, business case development, and cross-functional execution.
• Coach product leaders to operate strategically, influence across the matrix, and make enterprise-minded trade-offs.
• Create a culture of customer focus, accountability, inclusion, scientific curiosity, speed, and strong business judgment.
• Establish tools, processes, and operating mechanisms that improve product decision-making, transparency, and execution quality.

Enterprise Leadership & Matrix Effectiveness

• Serve as a senior enterprise leader who can influence across functions, regions, and business units.
• Partner effectively with senior leaders to align product priorities with broader transformation, innovation, and growth objectives.
• Model enterprise mindset by balancing functional, regional, commercial, technical, and customer priorities.
• Build trust and credibility across technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Lead through ambiguity, complexity, and change with clear communication, sound judgment, and strong follow-through.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, biotechnology, molecular biology, genomics, engineering, chemistry, bioinformatics, business, or a related field required.
• Advanced degree preferred; MBA, PhD, MD, or master’s degree in a relevant scientific or business discipline strongly valued.
• Typically requires 15–-20 years of progressive experience in product management, portfolio management, general management, commercial strategy, or related leadership roles in biotechnology, life sciences, diagnostics, medical technology, genomics, biopharma, or adjacent regulated industries.
• Typically requires 10 or more years of people leadership experience, including leadership of senior product managers or cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated success leading complex product portfolios across multiple lifecycle stages.
• Strong understanding of product development, commercialization, customer workflows, market segmentation, pricing, forecasting, and lifecycle management.
• Experience partnering with R&D, Commercial, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Finance, and regional teams in a matrixed environment.
• Track record of translating customer and market insights into differentiated product strategies and measurable business outcomes.
• Strong executive presence, communication skills, and ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in genomics, sequencing, diagnostics, proteomics, multiomics, clinical workflows, bioinformatics, life sciences instrumentation, assays, software, or integrated workflow solutions.
• Experience managing global product portfolios and regional market differences.
• Experience in both research-use-only and clinical or regulated product environments.
• Familiarity with FDA, IVDR, CLIA/CAP, ISO, or other relevant regulatory and quality environments, depending on portfolio scope.
• Experience leading product strategy through business transformation, acquisition integration, portfolio rationalization, or operating model change.
• Experience building product management operating models, talent capability, and scalable portfolio governance.