Senior Product Manager, Autonomous Scientific Instrumentation

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a strategic Senior Product Manager to lead the development and commercialization of Autonomous Scientific Instrumentation. This role will define how core analytical and life sciences instruments evolve to become intelligent, self-optimizing, and interoperable components of integrated scientific ecosystems.

Responsibilities:

• Define long-term platform strategy for autonomous-ready scientific instrumentation aligned to corporate and business unit priorities
• Develop structured market analyses, competitive landscapes, and investment theses to support portfolio decisions
• Build multi-year roadmaps supported by data-driven prioritization and clear financial business cases
• Collaborate with technology partners to align instrument architectures with advanced computing and acceleration platforms
• Engage strategic external customers as co-innovation partners to validate autonomous instrument capabilities in real-world workflows
• Represent Thermo Fisher in ecosystem discussions shaping future standards for intelligent laboratory systems
• Lead structured voice-of-customer initiatives to identify high-impact workflow pain points and autonomy use cases
• Translate customer insights into prioritized product requirements and differentiated value propositions
• Balance near-term commercial opportunities with long-term autonomous platform strategy
• Define new go to market models for autonomous instrumentation, including hardware, software, analytics, and service
• Develop compelling customer value creation and workflow performance improvements
• Drive adoption strategies that accelerate broad ecosystem development
• Align business units on common architectural standards and shared development priorities
• Partner with R&D, engineering, regulatory, and operations teams to execute stage-gate development programs
• Define KPIs including interoperability adoption, workflow integration success, instrument intelligence utilization, and revenue growth

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field with 10+ years of experience; advanced degree (MBA, MS, or PhD) preferred
• Demonstrated experience driving cross-functional product strategies for life sciences
• Strong understanding of analytical and life sciences instrumentation architectures
• Proven ability to develop business cases, financial models, and commercialization strategies for advanced technology platforms
• Executive presence and ability to influence across global business units and external partners
• Strategic systems thinker with disciplined execution capability
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder alignment skills in matrixed organizations
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening
• Advanced degree (MBA, MS, or PhD)