Global Product Strategy, Autonomous Laboratories

Agilent; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Agilent is seeking a highly experienced global product strategy and innovation leader to shape the future of the laboratory and align customer, scientific, and technology developments with our product and business plans. You will translate insights into long-range priorities and advise senior leadership across regions.

You will work across functions to connect regional needs in the US, China, and Asia with global product groups, evaluating AI, automation, and workflow evolution to create

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in science, engineering, business, or related discipline.
• PhD or equivalent advanced scientific training strongly preferred.
• Typically 8+ years of relevant experience in science, product strategy, management consulting, or related roles.

Responsibilities

• Develop a global view of the Lab of the Future and identify innovations across markets.
• Lead long-range initiatives, advise senior leadership, and translate insights into priorities.
• Collaborate with regional teams in the US, China, and Asia to transfer innovation between regions.

Skills

Global product strategy

Innovation leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic advisory

Education

Bachelor's degree or Master's degree

PhD or equivalent advanced training

Job description

About Agilent

Agilent is a global leader in laboratory and clinical technologies, we are passionate about bringing great science to life. We help scientists, researchers, and clinicians address some of the world's most important challenges across life science research, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, food, environmental testing, and related markets.

Leveraging more than 50 years of expertise, we develop advanced instruments, software, consumables, and services that enable customers to generate reliable scientific results and improve scientific, economic, and operational outcomes. Our global organization combines deep technical expertise with a commitment to quality, innovation, and customer impact. We work collaboratively with our customers on their journey to make a real difference in human lives. Our culture is founded on trust, respect, and uncompromising integrity, and we pride ourselves on being a dynamic and inclusive workplace that empowers employees and fosters innovation.

The Role

Agilent is seeking a highly experienced global product strategy and innovation leader to help define the future of the laboratory and connect emerging customer, scientific, and technology developments around the world with our product and business strategies.

This individual contributor builds a five- to ten-year perspective, with particular attention to the United States, China, and broader Asian innovation ecosystems. As a recognized internal expert, you will lead high-impact, long-range initiatives, advise senior leadership, and independently address complex challenges across functions with limited support. You will translate global innovation and regional customer insight into actionable priorities for Agilent's business and product groups.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a global view of the Lab of the Future. Assess changes in scientific workflows, laboratory operations, customer expectations, competitive dynamics, and technology adoption across geographies and applications. Identify innovations emerging in one market that could reshape laboratory practices worldwide.
• Establish systematic global innovation sensing through relationships with customers, researchers, start-ups, universities, technology companies, partners, and industry experts. Maintain visibility into the United States, China, broader Asia, Europe, and other strategic regions; identify developments warranting experimentation, partnership, investment, or product action.
• Partner closely with regional Agilent teams to understand emerging needs, competitors, technologies, and scientific workflows in China and Asia. Translate differences in adoption speed, customer behavior, workflow design, and competitive conditions for global product organizations, and identify opportunities to transfer innovation between regions.
• Evaluate how AI, machine learning, automation, robotics, and autonomous workflows could change experiment design, instrument operation, data analysis, workflow orchestration, troubleshooting, and service. Assess implications for instruments, software, interfaces, consumables, and services; connect technology choices to meaningful customer and business outcomes.
• Engage customers globally at the workflow and laboratory level. Identify barriers to productivity, connectivity, and automation that cross product boundaries; distinguish explicit customer requests from emerging needs and turn these observations into clear strategic opportunity areas.
• Create mechanisms that convert global signals into business-group action. Partner with product leaders on new product concepts, roadmap changes, customer experiments, technology investments, integration priorities, and partnerships. Track strategic opportunities from initial insight through business ownership and execution.
• Evaluate product and portfolio opportunities for customer value, strategic attractiveness, competitive differentiation, technical feasibility, and global scalability. Develop business cases and recommendations to build, partner, acquire, or invest; identify broader solutions combining Agilent's instruments, software, automation, services, consumables, and data.
• Lead initiatives across regional organizations, global product teams, R&D, commercial teams, and senior leadership. Translate between cultural, geographic, and product perspectives to build alignment. Represent Agilent externally with customers, technology partners, researchers, and industry participants.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in science, engineering, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience. A PhD or equivalent advanced scientific training is strongly preferred; business, strategy, or commercial experience is highly desirable.
• Typically 8+ years of relevant combined experience across scientific research, product strategy, management consulting, product management, business development, commercialization, or related roles.
• Strong experience in life sciences, biotechnol