Director of Product

Dotmatics; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly environment

Competitive compensation

Excellent 401(k) matching

Job summary

Dotmatics is seeking a Director of Product for LabArchives, overseeing ELN, Inventory, and Scheduler across academic and federal customers. You will own strategy, pricing, and roadmap, with a data-driven, AI-forward approach.

Lead a cross-functional team across Enterprise, Sales, Marketing, and Engineering. You will build a scalable product operating model, drive commercial outcomes, and align product delivery with business goals while engaging with customers and partners to shape the future of

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software (SaaS) product management
• 8+ years leading product managers and owning a product portfolio with commercial accountability
• Degree or higher education in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, CS, Engineering, or related field

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and results for LabArchives across ELN, Inventory, and Scheduler
• Lead a cross-functional team with Enterprise, Customer Success, Sales, Engineering and Leadership
• Own commercial outcomes including pricing, packaging, renewals, and retention
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and CS on GTM, launches, positioning, and competitive analysis
• Define KPIs and use analytics to drive decisions and value delivery
• Translate strategy into epics and stories, balancing customer needs and business goals
• Manage AI-driven features and ensure responsible, market-driven delivery
• Represent the product at conferences, user groups, and executive briefings

Skills

Product leadership

SaaS

Roadmap ownership

AI in product

Pricing & packaging

Education

Bachelor's degree

Life Sciences / STEM background

Tools

ELN / LIMS familiarity

Job description

At Dotmatics, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, MStar, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.

We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.

We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.

Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.

Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics

Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.

You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.

We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together

What We Need

We are looking for an experienced and commercially driven Director of Product to lead the product organization for LabArchives, which comprises three SaaS products primarily serving academic and federal customers: Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), Inventory, and Scheduler. You will own the product strategy, roadmap, and results for a platform that thousands of researchers and research organizations rely on every day. You are an operational leader who is AI fluent and adopts AI in the product strategy. You build a product team that delivers, a commercial owner who understands pricing, renewals, and growth, and a product thinker who earns the respect of engineering. You will work in an modified agile software development environment alongside engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, and the wider Dotmatics organization.

We want someone who treats product as a business, not just a backlog. You know how to turn customer needs, market signals, and company goals into a focused roadmap, then run the team and the process that delivers measurable customer outcomes.

In this role you will get to

• Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for LabArchives, balancing the distinct needs of academic and federal customers working with the key internal stakeholders: Enterprise and Customer Success, Sales, Engineering, and Business Leadership.
• Lead, coach, and grow the Product team setting clear expectations, building career paths, and raising the quality bar
• Own commercial outcomes for the product also including pricing and packaging
• Work with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success on go-to-market planning, launches, positioning, competitive analysis, and sales enablement
• Build and run the operating rhythm for product: planning cycles, roadmap reviews, prioritization frameworks, and status and metrics reporting to executive leadership
• Define the KPIs for the product, such as adoption, retention, net revenue retention, customer satisfaction, and release quality, and use product analytics and customer data to make decisions
• Partner closely with engineering leadership on architecture, technical debt, scalability, performance, reliability, security, upgradability, and maintainability, and make informed tradeoffs between them
• Translate strategy into iterative epics and stories that maintain fidelity to the goal, continuously adapting to customer feedback to deliver value early and often, using data to refine scope and priorities as needed.
• Guide product requirements for core ELN, Inventory, and Scheduler capabilities such as notebook authoring, data capture, collaboration, sharing and permissions, audit trails, search, and integrations
• Shape requirements specific to federal customers, including security and compliance expectations, procurement realities, data management and sharing requirements, and long-term records retention
• Evaluate where AI can create real value in the LabArchives suite of products, and bring it to market responsibly, based on market demands, while working with our internal AI strategy teams
• Manage integration partner relationships
• Speak with customers, partners, and funding or policy stakeholders, and represent the product at conferences, user groups, and executive briefings
• Be unrelenting and unremitting in maintaining a quality product.

We are looking for people who have 15+ years of experience in software (SaaS) product management, including 8+ years leading product managers and owning a product or portfolio with commercial accountability. Ideally you will have a degree or higher education in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, and experience with ELNs, LIMS, research data management, or other scientific software.

The Key Skills we are looking for:

• Product leadership of B2B enterprise SaaS products, with a track record of owning roadmap, delivery, and business results
• Leading, hiring, and developing product managers, and building a repeatable product operating model
• Commercial acumen: pricing and packaging, renewals and retention, ARR and net revenue retention, and go-to-market partnership with Sales and Marketing
• Credible, hands-on understanding of engineering: architecture, cloud infrastructure, security, scalability, release management, and technical debt tradeoffs
• Building and executing on product roadmaps and prioritization frameworks
• Working in flexible, Agile-like environments as part of a cross-functional team delivering on time and to specification
• Data-driven decision making using product analytics and customer feedback
• Senior stakeholder, executive, and client communication skills
• Fluency in collaborative documentation and backlog management tools
• Experience with integrating AI tools into daily workflows and into the product

You may also have experience in:

• Selling or supporting products in the education market, including higher education procurement, academic buying cycles, LMS integration (e.g. LTI), and accessibility requirements (WCAG, VPAT)
• U.S. federal customers, including security and compliance frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, FISMA), contract vehicles, and public sector procurement
• Familiarity with research data management practices, data sharing and retention policies, and FAIR data principles
• Identity and access standards (SSO, SAML, OAuth), audit logging, and regulated data environments
• Managing products with multiple, separate customer bases, such as administrative and end-users.
• Hands-on work building AI-powered features in production, with an understanding of AI/ML security considerations for regulated and hardened environmentsIntegrating with instruments, LIMS, data platforms, and other scientific systems through APIs
• Product led growth, self-service purchasing, or channel and reseller partnerships
• Working directly in or alongside an engineering team, or an engineering background

Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.