Applications Scientist

About the role

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Pay

Pay Range $79,800.00 - $131,100.00

Responsibilities

• Design, optimize, execute, and analyze scientific studies, workflows, and experimental approaches that generate application data, validate product performance and support technology adoption.
• Develop application strategies and generate scientific evidence to address customer needs, emerging research, and market opportunities.
• Translate scientific findings into technical documentation, scientific publications, application notes, educational and promotional content.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Marketing, R&D, and Commercial teams to support product development, launch readiness, application expansion, and commercialization efforts.
• Establish and maintain relationships with scientific collaborators, customers, and external partners to advance application development and scientific understanding.
• Provide scientific expertise and technical guidance, and application support to internal stakeholders and customer-facing teams.
• Partner with Applications Marketing and Product Marketing to communicate scientific findings and ensure application-focused materials accurately reflect experimental data and customer workflows.
• Represent the organization at scientific meetings, conferences, webinars, and customer engagements, serving as a subject matter expert for assigned technologies and applications.
• Monitor scientific trends, competitive technologies, and emerging research areas to identify opportunities for application innovation and growth.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Education: Advanced scientific training in a relevant life sciences discipline or equivalent combination of education and industry experience. Preferred: PhD or Master's degree in a related field.
• Experience: Up to 5 years of relevant industry, academic, or translational research experience.
• Experimental design, data analysis, scientific communication, technical writing, collaboration, project management.

Skills And Abilities

• Presentation skills, stakeholder management, scientific literature interpretation, customer focus.
• Characteristics: Curious, collaborative, adaptable, results-oriented.

Working Conditions

• Laboratory and office-based environment.
• Frequent interaction with internal and external stakeholders.
• Travel up to 20% for customer visits, conferences, and training.
• Ability to work in laboratory and office environments.
• Ability to sit, stand, and walk for extended periods.
• Ability to operate laboratory equipment and computer systems.
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to travel as required.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.
• 401k plans, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.
• Mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs.
• Employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.
• Accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
• Culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.