Product Manager — Kits and Integrated Workflows

Overview

As Product Manager for ONI’s kits and end-to-end workflows, you own the customer experience from sample to result. You’ll align automated prep, imaging, and analysis software into a coherent system, driving reliability, scalability, and adoption across sites. You’ll partner with R&D, marketing, and field teams to prioritize problems, shape the roadmap, and ensure quality improvements reach customers. This role blends technical curiosity with commercial acumen in a cross-site, cross-functional environment. You’ll lead launches and maintain coherence across software, hardware, and lab workflows to unlock broader impact.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 28 days of annual leave + holidays
• Private healthcare and dental
• Inclusive culture
• Health Assured mental health support
• Pension scheme

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for kits and workflows (Discovery Kit, EV Profiler, LNP Profiler) and future revisions
• Define MRD/PRD across workflows from sample prep to analysis
• Validate kits/workflows with acceptance criteria, performance specs, and reproducibility plans
• Drive end-to-end coherence of kits, reagents, lab automation, instruments and software
• Lead cross-functional alignment between R&D, operations, quality, service, field, and marketing
• Own pricing and packaging, balancing value, competitiveness, and margin
• Collaborate with Marketing to shape positioning and product story across the portfolio
• Lead launches/releases: readiness criteria, go/no-go, documentation and training
• Track post-launch metrics (adoption, time to first result, reproducibility, support burden) and feed insights into the roadmap
• Analyze support data to identify failure modes and prioritize fixes
• Coordinate lifecycle activities with Quality and Operations to maintain kit quality over time
• Communicate customer needs and priorities across software, hardware, bioware, support, and field

Key requirements

• Life-science background (EVs, LNPs, nanoparticle characterization, imaging, or biophysics)
• MSc/PhD or equivalent hands-on experience is a plus
• Fluency across software, instruments, lab workflows, and multidisciplinary R&D
• Experience with empowered cross-functional development teams
• Product management experience in life-science tools or instrumentation
• Experience planning and running launches with Marketing, R&D and field
• Commercial and pricing judgement
• Quality mindset with experience writing acceptance criteria and test plans (ISO 9001 or 13485 a plus)
• Comfort with data (logs, tickets, CVs, reproducibility)
• Ability to lead across software, hardware, bioware, support and field without owning any one domain
• Clear writing and organization skills

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Customer-focused thinking
• Decision-making under ambiguity
• End-to-end product management
• MRD/PRD development
• Validation planning and acceptance testing

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