Senior Product Manager, Life Sciences Data Platforms

PacBio; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

PacBio is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for emerging life sciences data products. You will understand customer goals, translate them into product priorities, and work with scientific, technical, operational, and commercial teams to deliver value.

You will define how customers access data, set data-use rights, pricing, and partnerships, navigating governance and commercial considerations in a fast-evolving field.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, computer science, or related field (advanced degree a plus).
• Seven+ years in product management or related leadership for enterprise data/software products.
• Experience in genomics, biopharma, healthcare data, bioinformatics, or life sciences field.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms, analytics, data governance, privacy and data-use controls.
• Experience developing value propositions, pricing/packaging, business cases, forecasts, or product economics.
• Experience supporting business development, partnerships, enterprise sales, data licensing.
• Strong product judgment, analytical ability, and communication; ability to influence diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define vision, target customers, positioning, and roadmap based on customer needs and business objectives.
• Lead customer conversations, discovery, demonstrations, pilots, and feedback sessions.
• Translate needs into requirements, target product profiles, launch criteria, and success metrics.
• Partner with sequencing, laboratory operations, bioinformatics, data, cloud, and software teams to ensure feasibility and deliverability.
• Define supported use cases, permitted analyses, derivative-use rights, export/sharing, retention, and compliance.
• Lead product requirements, technical alignment, milestones, and acceptance criteria for partnerships.
• Define pricing and packaging models, including value attribution to PacBio and data partners.
• Guide products from concept through launch and improvement; support business cases, forecasts, agreements, and sales enablement.
• Clearly communicate priorities, decisions, progress, risks, and commercial implications.

Skills

Product management experience

Stakeholder influence

Analytical ability

Communication skills

Product judgment

Leadership experience

Life sciences domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in life sciences / engineering / CS

Job description

PacBio is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for emerging life sciences data products. You will understand customer goals, translate them into product priorities, and work with scientific, technical, operational, and commercial teams to deliver value.

You will define how customers access data, set data-use rights, pricing, and partnerships, navigating governance and commercial considerations in a fast-evolving field.