Software Product Manager – AIx (Lab Digitization and Automation )Platform

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Position Summary

The Product Manager in the Lab D&A team is responsible for the strategy roadmap and delivery of digital solutions for lab operations that drive automation data integrity and operational efficiency across labs. This role partners closely with solution architects application development leads and lab operations leadership and chairs the product governance body to ensure alignment prioritization and change management for all released products and applications.

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and communicate the product vision and multi-year roadmap for digital applications for lab operations ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and lab operational goals.
• Quantify and track product KPIs around automation data integrity cycle time and user adoption.
• Lead the transition from fragmented legacy workflows to unified scalable platforms collaborating with architects and engineering.

2. Governance & Change Management

• Chair the decision-making body for change management and project prioritization ensuring structured governance and recurring reviews of submitted product change requests
• Approve hold or cancel projects entering the change management process set priorities and maintain the health of the change request pipeline and associated metrics.
• Act as the escalation point for unresolved issues before senior management involvement.

3. Customer Discovery & Workflow Enablement

• Lead discovery with BU stakeholders LabOps GIS and other partners to design business-specific workflows and hardware/process execution capabilities
• Analyze optimize and document end-to-end processes to drive operational efficiency and support organizational goals.
• Facilitate MVP scoping governance for upgrades and new features; define clear problem statements success metrics and acceptance criteria.

4. Execution & Delivery Leadership

• Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering QA DevOps design product operations) to deliver high-quality releases on time; maintain clear release notes.
• Lead readiness with GIS AIx and BU teams including training plans and rollout communications for lab applications.

• Drive training and adoption programs across user communities; capture feedback to inform backlog prioritization and roadmap iteration.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in computer science engineering or related field.
• 10 years in product management program management enterprise systems or related fields with progressive responsibility.
• Proven experience with lab automation systems; familiarity with lab operations and process/metrology workflows.
• Expertise collaborating on cloud-native architectures (Azure/AWS/GCP) microservices and enterprise integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze optimize and document complex business processes with strong stakeholder engagement across BU GIS and LabOps.

Key Interfaces

• Solution Architect Application Development Lead Lab Operations leadership BU stakeholders GIS AIx QA DevOps Design Training/Enablement

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