Director, Software Technical Product Management

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Position Summary Illumina's Bio Insight Platform Core is the software foundation on which customers connect instruments, manage samples and projects, store and move data, run analysis workflows, and explore results — across cloud and on-prem deployments. As Director of Software Technical Product Management, Bio Insight Platform Core Product, you own the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery partnership for Platform Core: the application-facing capabilities historically delivered as Illumina Connected Analytics (ICA) and related platform surfaces.

You own instrument connectivity, data storage and data movement, workflow / pipeline execution, sample and project management, notebooks and interactive analysis, platform user experience, and APIs / developer experience — the product capabilities that make Bio Insight Platform the durable home for Illumina software applications. You partner tightly with other software product leaders, as well as stakeholders across Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Finance, and Legal.

Scope of Responsibilities Own Bio Insight Platform Core product end-to-end: vision, multi-release roadmap, requirements quality, and release readiness for core platform capabilities

Lead a team of software technical product managers; hire, coach, and set the bar for platform product excellence

Serve as the primary product partner to platform engineering leadership on architecture bets, technical debt, reliability, performance, and security of core capabilities

Define outcome metrics for platform success: availability, time-to-first-analysis, workflow success rate, storage and data-movement reliability, notebook / interactive-analysis adoption, API adoption, and support burden

Ensure Platform Core meets enterprise and regulated-customer expectations for the capabilities it owns (security, privacy, auditability, quality-system interfaces where applicable)
Navigate ambiguity across a platform that serves many applications; create a coherent product narrative and prioritization framework

Represent Bio Insight Platform Core in Bio Insight leadership forums; escalate tradeoffs with clear recommendations

Responsibilities

Establish a multi-year roadmap for Bio Insight Platform Core with clear problem statements and success metrics

Own product requirements for core platform capabilities, including:
Instrument connectivity — sequencer and lab instrument connection, run data ingress, status, and operational reliability Data storage and data movement — customer data stores, import/export, retention/lifecycle behaviors that affect product experience (commercial storage packaging partners with Commercialization) Workflow and pipeline execution — defining, launching, monitoring, and operating analysis workflows at scale Sample and project management — organizing biological and analysis context that applications and workflows depend on Notebooks and interactive analysis — exploratory / interactive compute experiences on platform data Platform UX and APIs — console experience, developer surfaces, and integration…