Product Manager, CE Software

Mykelly; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 171,924,000 - 257,887,000; Part time

Job summary

Kelly Science & Clinical is seeking a Product Manager, Capillary Electrophoresis Software, for a 6-month onsite contract in Pleasanton, CA. Lead strategy, development, and lifecycle of CE software, partnering with R&D, marketing, and services to deliver high‑value capabilities.

The role focuses on translating customer needs into robust software, driving AI and automation, and ensuring cybersecurity and data integrity in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, computer science, bioinformatics, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of product management/software product management experience in life sciences or related field.
• Experience translating customer needs into software requirements.
• Experience partnering with software engineering or R&D teams.
• Strong analytical, strategic, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle plans for CE software products.
• Develop deep understanding of customer workflows, lab environments, pain points, and unmet needs.
• Translate insights into clear requirements, priorities, and investment recommendations.
• Manage products across the full software lifecycle including releases, maintenance, and security considerations.
• Build business cases and prioritize initiatives based on customer value and feasibility.
• Define and monitor KPIs for adoption, engagement, usability, and commercial performance.
• Collaborate with instrument, consumables, applications, and services teams for a connected customer experience.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI/ML to CE data analysis and workflows.
• Work with R&D and data science teams to evaluate feasibility and value of new technologies.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Customer engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in life sciences/engineering/CS/bioinformatics

Job description

Kelly® Science & Clinical is seeking a Product Manager, Capillary Electrophoresis for a 6-month contract opportunity with a global life sciences company in Pleasanton, CA. If you are driven by the prospect of translating cutting‑edge scientific discoveries into tangible advancements and are poised to advance your career, join us as we pioneer progress in the biotechnology realm.

Workplace: Onsite in Pleasanton, CA

Position Title: Product Manager, Capillary Electrophoresis Software

Position Type: 6-month contract

Pay rate: $60-90 per hour

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the strategy, development, and lifecycle management of a software portfolio supporting capillary electrophoresis (CE) and genetic analysis workflows. This is an opportunity to influence how scientists, laboratory professionals, and technical users generate, analyze, interpret, and act on complex data. You will help transform customer needs into intuitive, high‑value software capabilities that improve usability, strengthen the value of an established instrument installed base, and enable the next generation of intelligent scientific workflows. A major focus of this role will be identifying and delivering appropriate applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and advanced data analysis. The successful candidate will balance innovation with scientific rigor, customer trust, cybersecurity, data integrity, and the requirements of quality‑controlled or regulated environments. Based in Pleasanton, California, you will work closely with a local Software R&D organization and collaborate across product management, engineering, applications, marketing, commercial, service, quality, regulatory, and other functions.

What You’ll Do

Define Product Strategy and Roadmap

• Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle plans for CE software products.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer workflows, laboratory environments, pain points, and unmet needs.
• Translate customer, market, and business insights into clear product requirements, priorities, and investment recommendations.
• Manage products across the full software lifecycle, including new releases, enhancements, maintenance, compatibility, cybersecurity, technical debt, and end‑of‑life planning.
• Build business cases and prioritize initiatives based on customer value, market opportunity, technical feasibility, strategic alignment, and business impact.
• Define and monitor performance indicators related to adoption, engagement, usability, customer satisfaction, and commercial performance.
• Partner with product leaders responsible for instruments, consumables, applications, and services to create a connected end‑to‑‑end customer experience.

Advance AI and Software Innovation

• Identify opportunities to apply AI and machine learning to CE data analysis and laboratory workflows.
• Develop product concepts, requirements, and business cases for capabilities such as:
  • Automated data analysis and interpretation
  • Workflow automation
  • Intelligent troubleshooting
  • Decision support
  • Pattern recognition and anomaly detection
  • Personalized guidance and improved user experiences
• Work with Software R&D, data science, informatics, and subject‑matter experts to evaluate the feasibility, usability, and scientific value of emerging technologies.
• Help establish a responsible approach to AI‑enabled product development, addressing data quality, scientific validity, explainability, privacy, security, customer trust, and applicable regulatory or quality expectations.
• Monitor developments in AI, bioinformatics, scientific software, digital laboratories, and adjacent markets to identify opportunities for the CE portfolio.

Partner with Software R&D

• Serve as the primary product management partner to the Software R&D team.
• Convert customer and market needs into well‑defined use cases, requirements, priorities, and acceptance criteria.
• Participate in planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and prioritization activities.
• Balance innovation with product quality, reliability, cybersecurity, compatibility, maintainability, and technical‑debt reduction.
• Make informed product trade‑offs with engineering and cross‑functional partners to deliver meaningful capabilities on appropriate timelines.
• Support verification, validation, beta programs, usability studies, and customer evaluations.
• Maintain strong alignment between R&D, commercial, service, marketing, quality, and regulatory stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle.

Bring the Customer and Market Perspective

• Build expertise in CE customers, applications, laboratory workflows, competitive products, and market dynamics.
• Engage directly with customers, key opinion leaders, field teams, applications specialists, and other stakeholders.
• Validate product concepts through customer discovery, workflow observation, interviews, feedback sessions, and structured evaluations.
• Conduct competitive analysis across scientific software, informatics platforms, analytical technologies, and emerging digital solutions.
• Represent the voice of the customer in roadmap, investment, prioritization, and lifecycle decisions.
• Partner with marketing and commercial teams on positioning, value propositions, launch plans, enablement, and customer‑facing messaging.

What You’ll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, computer science, bioinformatics, or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of experience in product management, software product management, R&D, applications, or a related function within life sciences, diagnostics, biotechnology, scientific instrumentation, or a comparable industry.
• Demonstrated success translating customer needs and scientific workflows into software product requirements.
• Experience partnering effectively with software engineering or R&D teams.
• Strong analytical, strategic, and problem‑solving skills, including the ability to prioritize across competing technical, customer, and business needs.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Strong cross‑functional leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization with both technical and non‑technical partners.
• Willingness and ability to engage directly with customers and understand how scientific work is performed in real‑world laboratory environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with capillary electrophoresis, genetic analysis, DNA sequencing, fragment analysis, molecular biology, or related technologies.
• Experience managing scientific, analytical, informatics