Technical Product Manager – Product Testing & Quality

Role Overview

Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Specialized’s Product Testing & Quality technology platforms, including LIMS, Field Test, and Quality Inspection systems. This role ensures testing, validation, and compliance platforms scale with R&D and NPI demands while protecting premium product quality.

You will modernize and scale lab and field-testing platforms, enable end‑to‑end quality traceability, reduce launch risk, and ensure testing systems accelerate—not block—innovation and time‑to‑market.

Deep LIMS Experience (Non‑Negotiable)

• 7+ years working with enterprise LIMS platforms, ideally STARLIMS
• Hands‑on experience with LIMS configuration, workflow design, sample life cycles, test methods, and results management
• Experience integrating lab instruments and automation with LIMS
• Proven involvement in large‑scale LIMS implementations, extensions, or replacements
• Experience owning LIMS as a long‑lived enterprise platform, not just a one‑time deployment

• Direct experience integrating LIMS with R&D systems, PLM or engineering platforms, test automation and lab equipment, and data lakes, analytics platforms, or ERP
• Strong ability to translate business and lab needs into technical integration requirements
• Comfortable partnering with enterprise architecture, integration, and data teams

• Experience supporting product development, validation, or testing labs
• Strong understanding of engineering and validation test protocols
• Familiarity with iterative R&D workflows and managing evolving test methods as designs change
• Background in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, or high‑tech hardware strongly preferred

• Ownership of multi‑site, multi‑year platform programs
• Comfortable managing complex timelines, cross‑system dependencies, vendors, system integrators, budgets, and scope
• Acts as a strong bridge between business, engaging lab scientists, quality engineers, R&D leadership, IT architecture and security teams, and external vendors
• Known for turning ambiguous and evolving requirements into actionable delivery plans

• Experience modernizing labs from manual or semi‑digital processes to enterprise platforms
• Drives adoption and behavioural change, not just system go‑live
• Anticipates organizational friction and plans for it
• Guides platforms through multiple stages of maturity over time

• Strong understanding of data models, data integrity, and end‑to‑end traceability
• Familiarity with validation strategies in both regulated and non‑regulated environments
• Experience with APIs, middleware, and event‑based integrations
• Applies data discipline to enable scalable reporting, analytics, automation, and future AI use cases
• Identifies opportunities to automate test data capture, result publishing, and quality reporting
• Comfortable reviewing architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and validation documentation

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• Background in manufacturing or high‑tech hardware strongly preferred

• Calm under complexity and proven delivery when requirements evolve mid‑flight
• Highly structured thinker who brings order to complex testing, data, and integration environments
• Influential without authority and able to align teams across organizations
• Long‑term mindset, designing solutions that scale as R&D and testing volume increase

• Competitive pay with annual performance‑based reviews for continued growth and recognition
• Comprehensive healthcare plan options, including PPO, EPO, HDHP, and HMO (acupuncture and physical therapy included)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer HSA contributions when enrolled in the High‑Deductible Healthcare Plan (HDHP)
• Dental and Vision plans
• 401(k) Company Matching up to $5,000 annually with immediate 100% vesting and administrative fees paid for by the company
• Company‑paid Life, AD&D, Short‑Term Disability, and Long‑Term Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance…