Senior Product Manager | Microbial Sequencing

About Plasmidsaurus

Plasmidsaurus is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking a new level of productivity for scientists. Our sequencing services are used daily by thousands of innovators, including Nobel laureates, Fortune 100 pharma, and over 70,000 scientists. We began by revolutionizing plasmid sequencing, making it exponentially cheaper and faster, with innovative sequencing technologies and a global network of laboratories that turn samples into answers in hours, not weeks. Now we are expanding that same disruptive model across all of genomics.

Role Overview

As the Senior Product Manager, Microbial, you'll establish Plasmidsaurus as the leading sequencing services provider for the microbial research community. You'll define where we win, build products customers need, and expand a differentiated portfolio that drives durable revenue growth and customer satisfaction.

What You'll Do

• Define the Portfolio Strategy
  Serve as the company's expert on microbial customers, their workflows, and challenges.
  Develop and own the microbial portfolio strategy, identifying where Plasmidsaurus can create meaningful differentiation and long-term growth.
  Prioritize product investments based on customer value, scientific opportunity, technical feasibility, and business impact.

• Build Products Customers Want
  Lead customer discovery, market research, competitive analysis, and business case development for new products and services.
  Own the microbial product roadmap from concept through launch and ongoing lifecycle management.
  Partner with R&D, Engineering, Commercial and Lab teams to translate customer needs into scalable sequencing products.

• Drive Commercial Success
  Work closely with Marketing and Sales to develop product positioning, launch plans, and commercial strategy.
  Monitor portfolio performance and continuously improve adoption, customer satisfaction, and revenue.
  Use customer feedback and business performance to refine priorities and inform future product investments.

Who You Are

• You're energized by understanding your customers as deeply as you understand the science behind your products.
  You thrive when talking with researchers, uncovering unmet needs, synthesizing complex information, and turning those insights into products that solve meaningful problems.

• You understand that product management is about making decisions.
  You can prioritize competing opportunities, build alignment across stakeholders, and influence teams without relying on formal authority.

• You optimize for impact and outcomes and can select for the priorities that will matter most to the customer and the business.
  You are comfortable and adept making decisions without complete information.
  You effectively evaluate tradeoffs and make decisions that drive excellence without sacrificing speed and efficiency.

• You combine scientific credibility with commercial thinking and are equally comfortable discussing microbial workflows with researchers or business cases with company leadership.

Your Background

• PhD preferred (or other advanced degree) in molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, or a related field.
  At least 5 years of experience launching products or services that deliver clear customer value.
  Deep understanding of microbial research, customer segments, and sequencing applications.
  Direct experience researching bacteria, yeast, viruses, microbial communities, or related systems.
  Strong product management fundamentals, including customer research, market analysis, prioritization, roadmap development, pricing strategy, and business case modeling.
  Technical familiarity with long- and short-read sequencing technologies, associated library preparation methods, and downstream data analysis.
  Familiarity with microbiology laboratory methods.
  Experience spanning the sequencing workflow from sample preparation through data analysis, is preferred.

Ways of Working

• Build — You don't start with product ideas, you start with customers.
  You combine scientific insight, customer research, and first-principles thinking to identify where Plasmidsaurus can create products competitors haven't imagined or can't easily replicate.
  Own — You own the microbial portfolio end to end.
  You make thoughtful product decisions, maintain a clear point of view, and take responsibility for outcomes long after a product launches.

• Move — You balance scientific rigor with urgency.
  You efficiently gather enough information to make good decisions, keep cross-functional teams moving, and don't allow uncertainty to become an excuse for inaction.

• Participate — Great products are built through collaboration.
  You actively seek input from customers, scientists, engineers, commercial teams, and leadership, building alignment while challenging assumptions and advocating for what customers need most.

• Inspire — You help the company think bigger about microbial sequencing.
  Through your expertise, curiosity, and customer insight, you raise the quality of product thinking across the organization and help teams rally around opportunities that create lasting value for researchers.