Product Manager, Digital for Research and Tech Dev

Moderna Therapeutics; Norwood (MA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Well-being programs

Family planning benefits

Generous paid time off

Savings and investments

Location-specific perks

Job summary

Moderna Therapeutics seeks a Product Manager to bridge scientific workflows with internal software platforms (Benchling and AI-enabled tools). You’ll own end-to-end delivery from requirements discovery to rollout, aligning with data strategy and platform standards.

You will partner with scientists and developers, drive backlogs, and craft release documentation to enable scalable, reusable solutions across teams. This is a strategic role in Moderna’s Digital organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a life sciences, informatics, or related discipline.
• Hands-on experience using or administering Benchling and integrating it with secondary applications.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to lead workshops and partner effectively with scientific and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with scientific teams to understand software-related use cases and support their business needs.
• Capture and refine user requirements; translate into structured designs and user stories.
• Lead requirements gathering and design workshops; develop data models and release documentation.
• Backlog management to balance scientific needs, business value, and technical constraints.
• Define integration strategies to enable data flow across internal systems.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in life sciences / informatics

Ph.D. in life sciences / informatics (preferred)

Tools

Benchling

Job description

The Role

The Product Manager will partner closely with Moderna Research or Technical Development scientists to understand their scientific workflows and translate those needs into scalable, consistent releases of our internally developed applications and digital platforms (Benchling and AI enabled tools). You will work closely with software developers to own the end-to-end delivery of assigned projects, from requirements discovery through rollout and adoption, while ensuring solutions align with shared internal standards and long-term data strategy. This role will report to a Principal Product Manager within Moderna's Digital organization. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape how scientific data is captured, structured, and used across Moderna Research and Technical Development teams. The role balances deep engagement with scientists and disciplined system design, ensuring that solutions meet immediate team needs while supporting future reuse, reporting, and scale.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with scientific teams to understand their software-related use cases and with internal software development teams to best support their business needs.
• Capture user requirements and present them for manager review and approval, ensuring balance between team needs, shared platform standards and long-term scalability.
• Leverage knowledge of R&D scientific software systems to propose potential approaches during requirements gathering.
• Lead requirements gathering and design workshops, translating scientific workflows into data models, development-ready user stories, and release documentation.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog, balancing scientific needs, business value, and technical constraints.
• Analyze and translate end-to-end business data processes - from internal ordering & request systems to bespoke RNA/DNA production workflows.
• Partner with governance teams to establish and enforce platform standards, data models, and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and reuse across teams.
• Define and drive integration strategies across internal systems to enable seamless data flow, interoperability, and consistent user experiences across platforms.
• Collaborate with software developers to hand off requirements, review and validate delivered configurations, and drive iterative refinement through demos and user workshops.
• Develop test plans, guide UAT execution, and create documentation and training materials to support user training and onboarding.
• Provide user support during rollout and early adoption.
• Establish and track product success metrics (e.g., adoption, data quality) and drive continuous improvement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to scientific stakeholders, guiding trade-offs and promoting software development best practices.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a life sciences, informatics, or related discipline
• At least 5-7 years of experience in pharmaceutical research, biotech, informatics, or product-adjacent role
• Hands-on experience using or administering Benchling and integrating it with secondary applications.
• Demonstrated ability to gather, refine, and translate user requirements into structured system designs
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to lead workshops and partner effectively with scientific and technical stakeholders
• Experience producing high-quality requirements, design, and data model documentation to support scalable implementations and ongoing platform support

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. degree in a life sciences, informatics, or related discipline
• Familiarity with R&D lab workflows (e.g. assay development, process development, flow cytometry, next generation sequencing) and a wide variety of laboratory instrumentation.
• Experience with business process mapping and leading cross-functional requirements or design workshops
• Proven ability to develop fit-for-purpose data models and solutions rooted in strong product understanding and established industry standards.
• Experience creating user documentation, training materials, and delivering user training
• Comfortable working with external implementation partners
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver high-quality outcomes in a matrixed environment
• A collaborative, curious mindset and a desire to build systems that enable high-quality science at scale

Pay & Benefits

The salary range for this role is $121,600.00 - $194,500.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An individual’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, other incentive compensation, or equity award, subject to company plan eligibility criteria and individual performance.

• Competitive healthcare, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs
• A holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support
• Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Savings and investments to help you plan for the future
• Location-specific perks and extras

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010, we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform, the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered, and a world‑class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world. By living our mission, values, and mindsets every day, our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture. Together, we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients, our employees, the environment, and our communities. We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.

Equal Opportunities

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non‑discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. Moderna is a place where everyone can grow.

Moderna is an E‑Verify Employer in the United States.

Accommodations

We’re focused on attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best. Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations team at [e-mail].

Export Control Notice

This position may involve access to technology or data that is subject to U.S. export control laws, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such, employment is contingent upon the applicant’s ability to access export‑controlled information in accordance with U.S. law. Due to the nature of the work and regulatory requirements, only individuals who qualify as U.S. persons (citizens, permanent residents, asylees, or refugees) are eligible for this position. For this role Moderna is unable to sponsor non‑U.S. persons to apply for an export control license.

The Mission and Vision

At Moderna we are pioneering the development of a new class of drugs made of messenger RNA (mRNA). This novel drug platform builds on the discovery that modified mRNA can direct the body’s cellular machinery to produce nearly any protein of interest, from native proteins to antibodies and other entirely novel protein constructs that can have therapeutic activity inside and outside of cells. We have a clear mission to propel the field of mRNA science forward and deliver new medicines to patients and a unique vision for how to achieve this mission. Our Mission: To deliver on the promise of transformative messenger RNA (mRNA) science to bring new medicines to patients. Our Vision: To unlock the potential of mRNA by establishing an ecosystem of teams and partners that will work together to develop the broadest possible array of drugs, across diverse therapeutic areas and routes of administration, for serious diseases that are not treatable today.

Third Party Staffing Agencies

Moderna does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. For the protection of all parties involved in the recruiting process, resumes will only be accepted from recruiters/agencies if a signed agreement is in place at the inception of the recruiting effort and authorized for a specified position. Unsolicited resumes sent to Moderna from recruiters/agencies do not constitute any type of relationship between the recruiter/agency and Moderna and do not obligate Moderna to pay fees if we hire from those resumes.

Reasonable Accommodation Notice

Moderna will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. Please inform the company's personnel representative by calling 617-460-9346 or emailing [e-mail] if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.