Staff Agentic Product Owner

About the role

The Staff Product Owner, Agentic Product Ownership sets AI-native product direction for a domain or product area, leading requirements and backlog strategy built around agentic tools and approaches. This role has the product depth and organizational influence to drive adoption of agentic product ownership practices, including agent orchestration and oversight, across teams, and serves as a senior escalation point for product and requirements decisions. Location: This position must be based in Irvine, CA and requires the employee to be located within commuting distance of the office.

Responsibilities

• Set AI-native product direction and lead requirements and backlog strategy for a domain or product area, embedding agentic tools as the primary methodology.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for product and requirements decisions across multiple teams.
• Drive adoption of agentic product ownership practices, including agent orchestration and oversight, across teams.
• Mentor senior product owners and contribute to their growth.
• Drive prioritized AI-native capability delivery with vendors, data science, and engineering across the domain.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Science, Data Science, AI/ML, or a related technical field (Master's preferred).

Work Experience: 7-10 years as Technical Product Manager, Product Owner, Systems Engineer, or Software Engineer in a regulated industry, including direction-setting across a domain or product area, and early, hands-on adoption of agentic or AI-assisted product ownership tools.

Preferred: Experience in the clinical diagnostics or life sciences industry, defining AI-enabled product capabilities and multi-omics capable systems (e.g., genomics, proteomics) within a regulated environment.

Skills

• Requirements strategy and direction-setting across a domain, including EARS syntax standards.
• Proficiency directing AI-assisted product ownership tools within the personal workflow (e.g., requirements drafting, backlog grooming), including setting standards for their use across the team.
• Cross-functional stakeholder management, coordinating priorities and trade-offs across regulatory, commercial, and technical partners.

Benefits

At Bio-Rad, we’re empowered by our purpose and recognize that our employees are as well. That’s why we offer a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Program that provides value, quality, and inclusivity while satisfying the diverse needs of our evolving workforce. Bio-Rad's robust offerings serve to enrich the overall health, wealth, and wellbeing of our employees and their families through the various stages of an employee’s work and life cycle.

• competitive medical plans for you and your family
• free HSA funds
• a new fertility offering with stipend
• group life and disability
• paid parental leave