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Sr Software Technical Product Manager

Illumina
San Diego, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Jun 2025
💰 $173,800/yr($115,800/yr$173,800/yr)

About the role

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify critical customer problems, user needs, and potential solution concepts
  • Work with product marketing to define long term strategy of the product and product road map
  • Lead a multidisciplinary team in transforming an operational/customer need into a description of system parameters/requirements
  • Lead use case development, requirements elicitation and analysis sessions and produce software requirements specification artifacts in an Agile Scrum process
  • Review, validate and baseline requirements with stakeholders and the Software Development team
  • Define product development priorities and communicate product requirements with the development team, marketing, and customers
  • Provide input for marketing collateral development
  • Write software requirements specifications and software documentation for internal and external audiences, including how-to guides, cookbooks, reference material, technical overviews, architecture overviews, blog posts etc
  • Ability to create useful, high-quality diagrams, process flow and mock-ups to facilitate system design, specification, and knowledge transfer
  • Collaborate with development teams and marketing to design user friendly systems architected to meet scalability and uptime requirements
  • Work with System Architect & Software Development teams on overall system design to meet requirements
  • Assisting in the management of collaborative partnership relationships as needed
  • Assist in product-related support, feedback and inquiries from users
  • Provide holistic product leadership and facilitate cross-disciplinary communication
  • Provide technical leadership for product development through use of broad technical expertise, leadership skills, and development process knowledge
  • Collaborate with Project Management to create and track product development progress

Requirements:

  • Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.

  • Strong analytical skills required

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills required

  • Ability to present complex ideas and information clearly and succinctly in a group setting

  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience in requirements gathering, development & scrum product owner role

  • Knowledge of the full software development life cycle

  • Knowledge of genomics analysis software and pipeline creation

  • Knowledge of cloud platforms for genomics data analysis

  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and multi-disciplinary teams in a complex fast paced environment

  • Knowledge of user experience design in developing software solutions with exceptional usability

  • Prior programming experience a plus

  • Experience working in an ISO:13485 or FDA regulated (QSR) environment is a plus 

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The estimated base salary range for the Sr Software Technical Product Manager role based in the United States of America is: $115,800 - $173,800. Should the level or location of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable base pay range may be updated accordingly. Compensation decisions are dependent on several factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications, location where the role is to be performed, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Additionally, all employees are eligible for one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission) and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package. We offer a wide range of benefits as innovative as our work, including access to genomics sequencing, family planning, health/dental/vision, retirement benefits, and paid time off.


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