Product Manager, Sequencing Platforms in Oxford

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is seeking a Product Manager to support the lifecycle management and commercial success of our sequencing platforms. This role is focused on the on-market management of our sequencing platforms, ensuring they continue to deliver strong customer value, remain competitive, and evolve in line with user needs and organisational priorities. The Product Manager will work cross-functionally to translate customer, commercial, and technical insights into clear product requirements and actionable roadmaps, supporting ongoing product development and improvement.

Sitting at the interface of science, technology, and commercial teams, the role will act as a key voice of the customer, ensuring that development activities are grounded in real-world needs and that product decisions are supported by robust data and evidence.

The Role

What you will be responsible for

• Reporting to the Associate Director of Product Management, you will be responsible for on-market product management.
• Act as the voice of the customer (VoC), translating insights from customers and internal stakeholders into clear product requirements and priorities.
• Develop and deliver data-driven product roadmaps, balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, and delivery timelines.
• Coordinate with operations and supply chain to ensure product availability and lifecycle sustainability and proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks.
• Work cross-functionally with R&D, Product Marketing and Commercial to ensure aligned and timely execution of product initiatives.
• Act as a product champion, supporting commercial activities through development of sales collateral, defining supporting technical work, and assisting with complex technical queries.

What We Are Looking For...

• Experience in product management of physical devices within biotechnology, life sciences, or medical devices.
• Demonstrated ability to use data to inform decisions and influence stakeholders.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience working in matrixed environments.
• Experience managing projects or product initiatives end-to-end, from requirements through delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working next generation sequencing systems or genomics applications.
• Experience working under product development and commercialisation (PD&C) or equivalent development frameworks.
• Exposure to global markets and diverse customer segments.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.

About Us

Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.