Product Support Scientist AMR West Coast
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Join a global leader in genomics and sequencing technologies as a Product Support Scientist supporting customers and internal teams across the AMR West Coast region. This role is ideal for a scientifically driven professional who combines strong technical troubleshooting capabilities with excellent customer support and cross-functional collaboration skills.
You will serve as a key escalation point for complex product issues involving sequencing platforms bioinformatics workflows software networking and genomics applications. Working closely with Product Management R&D Quality Assurance Sales and global support teams you will help drive issue resolution improve products and deliver an exceptional customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advanced second-level technical support for escalated customer issues involving hardware software sequencing workflows networking and bioinformatics analysis.
- Investigate and manage complex product complaints through resolution including troubleshooting root cause analysis risk assessment and post-resolution monitoring.
- Collaborate with Product Management R&D Quality Assurance and internal stakeholders to prioritize and resolve critical technical issues.
- Analyze support trends and recurring technical issues using CRM and reporting tools such as Salesforce (SFDC) and Tableau.
- Gather and prioritize Voice of Customer (VoC) feedback to support product improvements and future development initiatives.
- Support the full product lifecycle by contributing technical expertise during product development launches and post-market support activities.
- Review and improve technical documentation troubleshooting guides and customer-facing support materials.
- Communicate technical updates best practices and service bulletins to regional and global support teams.
- Help prepare support organizations for new product launches through process improvements training and readiness activities.
- Lead or contribute to projects aimed at improving global support operations technical workflows and customer satisfaction.
What Were Looking For
Required Qualifications
- MSc or PhD in Life Sciences Molecular Biology Genomics Bioinformatics or a related discipline or equivalent industry experience.
- 4 years of experience within the biotech biomedical or genomics industry.
- Prior experience in technical support field applications customer-facing support or similar technical roles.
- Hands-on experience with sequencing technologies including:
- Library preparation
- Sequencing workflows
- Data analysis and bioinformatics pipelines
- Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues and managing product complaints.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience with CRM systems such as Salesforce (SFDC) and analytics/reporting tools like Tableau.
- Familiarity with genomics hardware software systems networking environments and bioinformatics troubleshooting.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Business-oriented mindset with the ability to assess commercial impact and customer risk.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across global and highly matrixed organizations.
- Self-motivated customer-focused and highly driven to succeed.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a persons gender marital status race religion color age disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
The salary for this role is between $97000and $121849USD. The salary offered will reflect the skills and experience of the candidate.
Certain roles within ONT are eligible for annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance.
Employees based in the US have the option to choose healthcare benefits participate in the company 401(k) plan and company match we also offer short-term and long-term disability coverage basic life insurance and commuter benefits to name a few.
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About Company
Oxford Nanopore’s goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology enabling the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis ... View more