Product Manager - Software

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

With annual revenue surpassing $40 billion, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is a prominent global player in science. Our objective is to aid customers in advancing health, cleanliness, and safety on a global scale. We provide support in areas including life sciences research, analytical problem-solving, patient diagnostics and treatments, and lab efficiency improvement.

Location/Division Specific Information

We are seeking a Software Product Manager who applies their skills to our team in Madison, WI. This is an outstanding chance for the ideal candidate to become part of a global market-leading Vibrational Spectroscopy instrumentation and services team. We collaborate with customers by using our Raman, Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and Near IR instruments to expedite innovation and attain higher efficiency across various applications.

How will you make an impact?

Contribute to software development for our Vibrational Spectroscopy team as the Software Product Manager. Collaborate with engineers and product specialists to enhance our FTIR, Raman, and NIR platforms. Improve our portfolio through feature differentiation, product positioning, and lifecycle management. Balance multiple priorities, incorporate diverse perspectives, and possess expertise in software development, commercialization, and marketing.

Collaborate with the instrument product management team to understand customer needs and improve the software workflow experience.

What will you do?

• Drive the software product roadmap strategy of the Vibrational Spectroscopy product line
• Provide product-specific technical and marketing support to our field sales organizations and channel partners
• Guide the development of application-specific marketing materials, working hand-in-hand with the applications team
• Act as the champion for the customer experience; collecting and analyzing customer feedback to uncover user needs
• Be responsible for the software product lifecycle developing the argument, product launch plans, versioning strategy, pricing, value proposition, and commercialization approach
• Increase customer and business value through product differentiation

• Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Business, Chemistry, Physical Science, Life Science, Computer Science or equivalent required.

• Minimum 2+ years of software product development or product management experience required
• Strong software background required; experience with scientific instrumentation software desirable
• Strong customer facing experience required

• Strong customer focus, ownership, and drive
• Demonstrated excellent judgment and ability to see the big picture, while navigating technology and partner development decisions and tradeoffs.
• Work experience converting market intelligence into valuable features delivering one or more software products
• Strong technical acuity and understanding of emerging ground-breaking technologies, like cloud computing, IoT, complex event analysis, sophisticated analytics etc.
• Able to assess impact of projects and prioritize/allocate time accordingly
• Excellent problem-solving skills with attention to detail; ability to step back and analyze the overall business impact
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with an emphasis on communicating technical requirements and solutions to internal and external audiences.