Senior Director, Software Product Management
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Description
Role Overview
JOB DESCRIPTION
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is seeking a Senior Director of Software Product Management to define and lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of our software products across sequencing systems and applications. This role is accountable for ensuring that software platforms, tools, and experiences deliver clear customer value, scale with our technology, and enable successful adoption of our sequencing ecosystem.
The role acts as the integrative product leadership layer, taking strategic and tactical inputs from Sequencing Systems Product Managers and Applications Product Managers, and translating them into a coherent, prioritised software portfolio. The successful candidate will bring strong product leadership, technical depth, and the ability to operate across complex hardware–software–science boundaries.
Key Responsibilities
Software Product Strategy & Portfolio Ownership
JOB DESCRIPTION
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is seeking a Senior Director of Software Product Management to define and lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of our software products across sequencing systems and applications. This role is accountable for ensuring that software platforms, tools, and experiences deliver clear customer value, scale with our technology, and enable successful adoption of our sequencing ecosystem.
The role acts as the integrative product leadership layer, taking strategic and tactical inputs from Sequencing Systems Product Managers and Applications Product Managers, and translating them into a coherent, prioritised software portfolio. The successful candidate will bring strong product leadership, technical depth, and the ability to operate across complex hardware–software–science boundaries.
Key Responsibilities
Software Product Strategy & Portfolio Ownership
- Define and own the end-to-end software product strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with company objectives, platform evolution, and customer needs.
- Integrate inputs from sequencing systems and applications product teams into a cohesive, prioritised software portfolio.
- Partner closely with Sequencing Systems PMs to ensure software capabilities effectively enable system performance, usability, and differentiation.
- Work with Applications PMs to support application-specific requirements while maintaining platform coherence and reusability.
- Balance platform-level investment with application-driven needs to avoid fragmentation and technical debt.
- Provide product leadership across the software development lifecycle, from concept and requirements through delivery, launch, and ongoing evolution.
- Ensure clear, actionable product requirements and success metrics are defined and communicated to engineering and data science teams.
- Support new product introductions and major system launches with aligned, launch-ready software experiences.
- Act as the senior product voice for software at governance forums, representing customer, commercial, and technical perspectives.
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing software product management team.
- Establish best practices for software product management, including roadmap governance, prioritisation, customer insight, and lifecycle management.
- Mentor senior product leaders and support succession planning within the function.
- Extensive senior leadership experience in software product management within biotech sector.
- Proven ability to manage platform software products serving multiple product lines or applications.
- Strong experience working with engineering, data science, and systems teams on technically sophisticated products.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesise diverse inputs into clear product direction and prioritised roadmaps.
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is redefining sequencing through real-time, accessible analysis of DNA and RNA. This role offers the opportunity to shape the software foundation that underpins our sequencing systems and applications, enabling scientific discovery and real-world impact at global scale.
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.