Technical Product Manager – Product Testing & Quality

About the Role

Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Specialized’s Product Testing & Quality technology platforms, including LIMS, Field Test, and Quality Inspection systems. This role ensures testing, validation, and compliance platforms scale with R&D and NPI demands while protecting premium product quality.

You will modernize and scale lab and field-testing platforms, enable end-to-end quality traceability, reduce launch risk, and ensure testing systems accelerate—not block—innovation and time-to-market.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and scale lab and field-testing platforms to support R&D and new product introduction (NPI) demands.
• Enable end-to-end quality traceability across testing and validation systems.
• Reduce launch risk by ensuring robust, compliant testing platforms.
• Lead large-scale LIMS implementations, extensions, or replacements.
• Integrate LIMS with R&D systems, PLM, engineering platforms, test automation, lab equipment, data lakes, analytics platforms, and ERP.
• Translate business and lab needs into technical integration requirements.
• Own multi-site, multi-year platform programs, managing timelines, cross-system dependencies, vendors, budgets, and scope.
• Bridge communication between lab scientists, quality engineers, R&D leadership, IT architecture, security teams, and external vendors.
• Turn ambiguous and evolving requirements into actionable delivery plans.
• Drive adoption and behavioral change in lab modernization initiatives.
• Anticipate and mitigate organizational friction during platform transitions.
• Guide platforms through multiple stages of maturity over time.
• Apply data discipline to enable scalable reporting, analytics, automation, and future AI use cases.
• Identify opportunities to automate test data capture, result publishing, and quality reporting.
• Review architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and validation documentation.

Requirements

Core LIMS Experience (Non-Negotiable)

• 7+ years working with enterprise LIMS platforms, ideally STARLIMS.
• Hands-on experience with LIMS configuration, workflow design, sample lifecycles, test methods, and results management.
• Experience integrating lab instruments and automation with LIMS.
• Proven involvement in large-scale LIMS implementations, extensions, or replacements.
• Experience owning LIMS as a long-lived enterprise platform, not just a one-time deployment.

Systems Integration Leadership

• Direct experience integrating LIMS with R&D systems, PLM, engineering platforms, test automation, lab equipment, data lakes, analytics platforms, or ERP.
• Strong ability to translate business and lab needs into technical integration requirements.
• Comfortable partnering with enterprise architecture, integration, and data teams.

R&D / Engineering Domain Familiarity

• Experience supporting product development, validation, or testing labs.
• Strong understanding of engineering and validation test protocols.
• Familiarity with iterative R&D workflows and managing evolving test methods as designs change.
• Background in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, or high-tech hardware strongly preferred.

Program & Stakeholder Skills

• Ownership of multi-site, multi-year platform programs.
• Comfortable managing complex timelines, cross-system dependencies, vendors, system integrators, budgets, and scope.
• Strong bridge between business and technical teams, engaging lab scientists, quality engineers, R&D leadership, IT architecture, security teams, and external vendors.
• Proven ability to turn ambiguous and evolving requirements into actionable delivery plans.

Change Management & Platform Maturity

• Experience modernizing labs from manual or semi-digital processes to enterprise platforms.
• Drives adoption and behavioral change, not just system go-live.
• Anticipates organizational friction and plans for it.
• Guides platforms through multiple stages of maturity over time.

Technical, Data, AI & Automation Attributes

• Strong understanding of data models, data integrity, and end-to-end traceability.
• Familiarity with validation strategies in both regulated and non-regulated environments.
• Experience with APIs, middleware, and event-based integrations.
• Applies data discipline to enable scalable reporting, analytics, automation, and future AI use cases.
• Identifies opportunities to automate test data capture, result publishing, and quality reporting.
• Comfortable reviewing architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and validation documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Background in manufacturing or high-tech hardware strongly preferred.

Skills

• Calm under complexity and proven delivery when requirements evolve mid-flight.
• Highly structured thinker who brings order to complex testing, data, and integration environments.
• Influential without authority and able to align teams across organizations.
• Long-term mindset, designing solutions that scale as R&D and testing volume increase.

Benefits

• Competitive pay with annual performance-based reviews for continued growth and recognition.
• Comprehensive healthcare plan options, including PPO, EPO, HDHP, and HMO (acupuncture and physical therapy included).
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contributions when enrolled in the High-Deductible Healthcare Plan (HDHP).
• Dental and Vision plans.
• 401(k) Company Matching up to $5,000 annually with immediate 100% vesting and administrative fees paid by the company.
• Company-paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program providing access to individualized mental well-being care.
• Generous Vacation, Sick, Paid Holidays, and Volunteer Time Off.
• 14 weeks of 100% paid leave for birthing parents and 8 weeks of 100% paid leave for non-birthing parents, plus a Specialized bike for your new baby.
• Up to $9,000 annually in Career Development & Degree Assistance.
• Up to $250 annually in Fitness & Wellness Reimbursement.
• Industry Pro-Deal Discounts and Perks.

Pay

Below is a summary of compensation elements for this role if based in California:

• Base Pay Range: $100,000 – $140,000.

Base pay depends on work experience, skills, certification, and location.