Director, Product Management

At Element Biosciences, we are passionate about our mission to empower the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate our collective impact on humanity. We have built a highly efficient product-driven organization where employees can learn, grow, and thrive in a challenging but encouraging environment. We are committed to scientific integrity, collegiality, honesty, objectivity, and openness.

We are seeking an experienced Director, Product Management who will play a pivotal role in leading activities relating to researching, designing, and marketing new products and features for new genomics products alongside your R&D partners. This is an incredible opportunity for someone who is passionate about fast-paced team-oriented environments. We are looking for candidates with solid backgrounds with genomics technologies, ideally related to next generation sequencing applications in a marketing or sales role or combination. Experience with genomics technologies is a must. This role will report to the SVP of Marketing and Product Management and will be a San Diego based role.

If you possess the following and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to explore this role.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Strong knowledge of the market trends, customer needs, competitive products and product offerings for genomic applications that use short read or long read approaches in next generation sequencing
• Monitor the revenue and market performance of each product in the range to both assess what changes in strategy or tactic might be necessary
• Identify new product and market opportunities related to the range of products and related market segments
• Act as a champion for the given range of products, both internally and externally by developing customer/product requirements, conducting independent research, bringing forward Voice of Customer, and evaluating trade-offs
• Be involved with the management of the product lifecycle. These would include Research and Applications teams, Customers to test specifications during concept and product development phases, Operations to ensure products are manufactured to both specification and forecast, and Sales and Field Support to ensure adequate pre- and post-launch support
• Communicate problems and solutions clearly to all levels and roles across the company
• Ability to manage competing priorities, balance short term and long term trade-offs, and efficiently meet timelines; focus on execution and ability to drive work to completion

Education and Experience:

• Minimum of a Bachelors Degree in a core life science discipline – biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, etc. with ten years of related work experience
• Minimum of eight years’ experience in genomics technologies, ideally related to next generation sequencing applications in a product management role
• Strong communicator with the ability to work with cross-functional teams without line management authority
• Well organized ability to help drive projects, multi-task, and prioritize projects and tasks efficiently.
• Good understanding of core principles of product management and how to best apply them to the life science market
• Solid understanding of selling process and how it is used effectively with varying product types in different segments of life science market
• Excellent computing skills, with specific knowledge of Microsoft Office tool set; Salesforce.com knowledge a plus
• Experience managing the lifecycle of a range of different product types from idea conceptualization through launch, growth, and maturity, etc

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently moves boxes weighing up to 20 pounds

Location:

• San Diego – On-Site

Travel: 

• Ability to travel up to 25% in US and internationally

Job Type:

• Full-time/Exempt

Base Compensation Pay Range:

• $156,000 - $220,000

In addition to base compensation noted above, you will be eligible for stock options, discretionary annual bonus, no cost health insurance plans, 401k with company match, and flexible paid time off. 

Please note: Base compensation will depend on multiple factors, including geographic location, qualifications, and experience. 

We foster an environment such that all people are afforded the freedom to pursue their passions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.