Product Manager

Sarmal, Inc. is a San Diego‑based biotechnology company developing next-generation genomics and molecular detection platforms. Our work integrates molecular biology, chemistry, and advanced systems engineering to enable faster, more precise, and more accessible genomic insights.

We are a highly collaborative, R&D-driven team operating in a fast-paced, early-stage environment. Our scientists and engineers work across disciplines to solve complex technical challenges and translate innovation into scalable, real-world applications.

At Sarmal, we value scientific rigor, curiosity, and a builder mindset. We are looking for individuals who are energized by ambiguity, motivated by impact, and excited to help bring breakthrough technologies from concept to reality.

We are seeking a Product Manager with product marketing experience to own the product strategy and commercialization of our target detection platform. This is a hybrid product-and-marketing role: you will translate customer and clinical insight into product requirements and roadmap, build the business case and competitive positioning, and drive go‑to‑market strategy, launch, and post‑launch performance.

This role is ideal for a commercially minded product leader who is equally comfortable defining a product from the inside — partnering with engineering, assay, integration, regulatory, and software teams — and bringing it to market in regulated diagnostic environments spanning our RUO, LDT, and IVD development phases.

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for Sarmal’s target detection platform, translating Voice of Customer (VOC) from clinicians, laboratory directors, and key opinion leaders into clearly prioritized, well‑defined product requirements
• Partner with engineering, assay development, integration, software, regulatory, and operation teams to balance clinical value, technical feasibility, and time‑to‑market across the platform’s RUO, LDT, and IVD development phases
• Develop product positioning, messaging, and value propositions tailored to clinical, laboratory, and economic buyers, including health‑economic and clinical‑utility narratives that differentiate against blood culture‑based and competing molecular methods
• Build business cases and financial models — including market sizing, segmentation, and ROI — to support investment, prioritization, and executive go/no‑go decisions
• Conduct competitive analyses and market landscaping across sepsis, pathogen identification, and AMR detection to identify differentiation, threats, and white‑space opportunities
• Drive go‑to‑market (GTM) strategy in partnership with commercial, sales, and marketing leadership, including pricing, channel, and launch‑readiness planning
• Lead product launches end‑to‑end — sales enablement, collateral, training, and KOL engagement— and own post‑launch activities including adoption tracking, customer feedback loops, and performance against commercial targets
• Collaborate with regulatory and quality teams to ensure product requirements and commercial materials are accurate, compliant, and appropriate for a regulated diagnostics environment
• Serve as the internal subject‑matter expert and voice of the customer for the platform, its clinical workflows, and the problems it solves
• Define and track product and commercial success metrics, using data to inform roadmap prioritization and trade‑offs

• Demonstrated product management and/or product marketing experience in diagnostics, life sciences, or medical devices, with a track record of bringing products from concept through commercialization
• Hands‑on experience developing IVD and Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs), including familiarity with the requirements they impose…