Director, Software Technical Product Management

Position: Director, Software Technical Product Management (Genomics Platform)

Location: Hybrid in San Diego, CA

Overview

We are seeking a Director of Software Technical Product Management to lead product strategy and drive adoption of a core software platform supporting scientific data management, cloud compute, workflow execution, and interactive analysis.

This leader will manage a team of 4-6 Product Managers and partner closely with Engineering and cross-functional teams. The focus is building scalable platform capabilities used across multiple applications and increasing customer usage of the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and the multi-quarter roadmap for core platform capabilities.
• Drive platform adoption by identifying customer needs and prioritizing product improvements.
• Lead products across cloud compute, data storage, databases, workflows/pipelines, notebooks, APIs, and platform UX.
• Partner with Engineering on architecture, scalability, performance, reliability, and technical debt.
• Define requirements across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Support strategic customer conversations related to product needs, platform architecture, roadmap, and reliability.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 4-6 Product Managers.
• Partner across Engineering, UX/Design, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and other Product teams.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven success driving user adoption and growing software products.
• 12+ years of progressive Product Management or relevant technical experience.
• Experience owning a B2B or B2C software platform used across multiple applications.
• Experience with cloud compute, storage/data services, databases, workflows, notebooks, interactive compute, or APIs.
• Strong technical understanding of software development, architecture, APIs, and Engineering tradeoffs.
• Experience leading Product Managers or a small product team.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, Life Sciences, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Experience

• Life sciences, health tech, genomics, biotech, scientific, or regulated software experience.
• AWS, Azure, or GCP experience.
• Cloud, hybrid, on-prem, or customer-cloud deployment experience
• Software Engineering background prior to Product Management
• SDLC, design controls, or ISO 13485 experience

Compensation & Benefits

• $205-256k base salary
• 17% VCP annual incentive opportunity
• Equity eligibility through RSUs
• Relocation assistance available for eligible candidates, including relocation allowance and additional relocation benefits.
• Comprehensive health and medical coverage
• Mental health resources and EAP
• Retirement savings plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Generous PTO, paid holidays, and two company-wide paid shutdown weeks
• Paid parental and family leave
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Education assistance and paid volunteer time
• Additional family-building and wellbeing benefits