Product Manager, Lab Execution Oncology (Signatera)

Natera; United States; À distance; USD 128 000 - 152 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Annual bonus

Equity awards

Health benefits

401(k) match

Paid time off

Wellness benefits

Résumé du poste

Natera is seeking a Product Manager for Signatera Lab Execution to own features across the NGS lab workflow, from sample intake to sequencing. Translate lab needs into clear requirements, wireframes, and user stories, partnering with Lab Ops, R&D, and Automation to reduce errors and training time.

You will measure throughput, turnaround time, and adoption, launch new panels, and collaborate with Quality and Regulatory to ensure compliant features.

Qualifications

• Experience in product management or related role on software products in healthcare or regulated domains.
• Solid skills in writing requirements and user stories.
• UX design thinking with user-centered workflows.
• Interest in genomics workflows and quick learning of complex processes.
• Analytical mindset using data and dashboards for decisions.
• Familiarity with Agile and tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Strong written and verbal communication and multi-priority organization.

Responsabilités

• Own features for a lab workflow; write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Create flow diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes to clarify requirements.
• Prioritize backlog; balance features, bugs, and quality improvements.
• Track throughput, turnaround time, rework, and adoption post-launch.
• Collaborate with Lab Ops, R&D, and Automation to roll out features.
• Partner with Quality and Regulatory to ensure compliant lab software.

Connaissances

Product management

Business analysis

UX design thinking

Genomics workflows

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Jira

Confluence

Outils

Jira

Confluence

Description du poste

Product Manager, Lab Execution Oncology (Signatera)

About the Role

This is your chance to help build the software that runs Natera's Signatera Plasma lab, a high-throughput lab that processes helps patients achieve and stay in cancer remission. You'll own features and genomics workflows across the lab, from sample intake to sequencing. Every feature you ship makes the lab faster and more reliable, and helps patients and families get answers about their genetic health. Your customers are on the lab floor every day, so you'll see the impact of your work right away.

You’ll work closely with an engineering team, Lab Operations, R&D, and Automation to turn lab needs into clear requirements and working software. You'll learn the lab inside and out, ask lots of questions, and sweat the details that make Signatera workflows hard, like rework scenarios, process improvements, and task prioritizatioon. You'll bring curiosity, a bias for action, and a willingness to put AI to work so you can move faster and ship smarter.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership

Own features and enhancements for an NGS lab workflow, aligned with the team's roadmap and priorities. Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria that engineering can execute on. Create flow diagrams, wireframes, and simple prototypes to clarify requirements with lab and technical teams. Bring UX design thinking to everything you build, partnering with design to create intuitive workflows that reduce errors and training time on the lab floor. Groom and prioritize the backlog with your engineering team, balancing new features, bug fixes, and quality-of-life improvements. Find and close operational gaps on the lab floor, such as sample tracking, primer and control inventory, sample disposition, and instrument availability. Build robust quality documentation and release notes to enable lab verification and validation.

Delivery & Launch

Support new product, panel launches and process improvements, through requirements, UAT, lab process verification and validation, go-live, and hypercare. Work with Quality and Regulatory to make sure your features meet the requirements of a regulated clinical lab. Track success metrics such as throughput, turnaround time, failure and rework rates, manual touchpoints, workcell utilization, and adoption for the features you ship. Gather user feedback after launch and turn it into improvements.

Customer & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with Lab Operations, R&D, Automation, and Bioinformatics stakeholders to understand their needs and pain points. Host in-depth user trainings, feedback sessions, and demos to enable a seamless user experience and feature rollouts. Work with Automation to integrate software with automated workcells and instruments, including liquid handlers, sample storage, and sequencers. Spend real time on the lab floor to understand how people actually work, and build deep empathy for lab operators. Keep stakeholders informed on progress, trade-offs, and risks. Work with senior product managers and product leadership to grow your skills and contribute to the broader WH/OH strategy.

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

Experience in product management, business analysis, or a related role on software products, ideally in labs, healthcare, or another regulated domain. Solid skills in writing requirements and user stories. UX design thinking, with an eye for intuitive, user-centered workflows. Interest in genomics workflows and the ability to learn complex scientific processes quickly. Analytical mindset, comfortable using data and dashboards to inform decisions. Familiarity with Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and tools like Jira and Confluence. Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the organization to juggle multiple priorities.

Nice to Have

Based in the Bay Area (San Carlos, CA) or willingness to travel (approx. 25 to 35%). Experience working in or with a clinical or molecular lab. Familiarity with LIMS/LES or other lab software. Exposure to germline, carrier screening, or hereditary testing workflows. Experience with lab automation, integrated workcells, or instrument integration. Experience with SQL. Experience using AI tools to work more efficiently.

Compensation & Total Rewards

This range reflects a good-faith estimate of the base pay we reasonably expect to offer at the time of hire. Final compensation will vary based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity considerations. This position is also eligible for additional compensation and benefits through Natera’s robust Total Rewards program, including:

• Annual performance incentive bonus
• Long-term equity awards
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) with company match
• Generous paid time off and company holidays
• Additional wellness and work-life benefits

Compensation Range $127,500 - $151,500 USD

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Equal Opportunity

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/