Sr. Staff Product Manager (HT/NGS)

About the role

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that transform human health through early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients. This role will lead product management at the platform-level product development and launch execution, ensuring end-to-end and configurable solutions that integrate seamlessly across both on-market and in-development products. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with both commercial and technical expertise, strong cross-functional leadership skills, and the ability to drive decisions that balance R&D innovation with commercial success.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary product manager in novel product development at the system level, covering whole end-to-end workflow solutions for main use cases for the platform.
• Collaborate deeply with R&D, Operations, Commercial, and cross-functional teams to ensure end-to-end system delivery and compatibility with both on-market and future products.
• Establish product/system-level requirements as defined by customer/market and business need, leveraging best practices and data-driven decision-making, including market research, voice of customer, business analytics, and customer use cases.
• Serve as product and customer champion within a cross-functional core team, acting as a strong cross-functional partner to support product development in both early-phase and post-launch decisions.
• Develop business cases to support key decision-making for new product requirements, pricing, and initial sales forecast predictions.
• Partner with key commercial stakeholders to establish commercialization strategies and approaches to ensure product launch success.
• Serve as product expert in partnership with Product Marketing to develop product launch value proposition, messaging, product training, and launch collateral (including market development studies, presentations, publications, and general literature to support the product).
• Partner with key product management and regional marketing stakeholders to define key growth areas for application enablement and market expansion, and recommend strategies to unlock growth through product development, sales enablement tools, and market development efforts.
• Understand key business drivers based on data and analytics, market trends, and direct interaction with Commercial teams and customers.
• Build close relationships with key customers, thought leaders, partners, and industry influencers to stay abreast of emerging market trends and communicate those trends internally to adjust product placement and features as needed.
• Establish strong cross-functional partnerships with Research, Product Development, Operations, Quality, Commercial, and Global Marketing.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
• Must have experience in next-generation sequencing technologies such as SBS and others.
• Real-world experience showing customer implementation of sequencing workflows is a plus.
• Must have demonstrated product management experience throughout the product development process for a major product line—capital equipment preferred.
• Must have a demonstrated track record of effective public speaking skills and executive-level presentation experience.
• Must have demonstrated successful commercial launch of a new product (in an active role; not a support role).
• Must have experience in developing system requirements; experience with both hardware and software is desirable.
• Must have demonstrated experience working on early-development products, heavily collaborating with R&D teams to guide product-market fit and translate product requirements into design inputs.
• Must have experience in developing product strategy and product roadmaps in a collaborative environment.
• Prior experience in market development is highly desired.
• Must have strong analytical skills—ability to tie detailed analysis to larger strategy and make data-driven decisions is critical.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for the Sr. Staff Product Manager (HT/NGS) role based in the United States of America is $155,600 - $233,400. Placement depends on experience, skills, location, and internal equity. Additionally, all employees are eligible for one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission), and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package.

Benefits

• Access to genomics sequencing.
• Family planning support.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Retirement benefits.
• Paid time off.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that deliver career development experiences, increase cultural awareness, and offer opportunities to engage in social responsibility.