[Hiring] Staff Product Manager - Genomics Workflow Orchestration Platform @Illumina

Role Description

Clinical genomics labs today run multiple disconnected applications, creating manual handoffs, transcription errors, and significant integration overhead per site. The future of this space is a unified orchestration layer that connects every step from sample intake to clinical insight, powered by intelligent automation and AI. We’re building that future.

As a Staff Product Manager on the Orchestration team, you’ll own the vision and execution of our workflow orchestration platform. You’ll define the capabilities, core concepts, and user experiences that tie together instruments, software systems, and data across the lab and drive adoption from early validation through broad market impact.

This is a multi-year, career-defining opportunity to shape how genomics labs operate. It’s not a feature role: it’s a platform leadership role with the scope to define a new category.

This is a role for a modern SaaS platform PM who thrives in ambiguity, thinks in systems, and raises the bar for clarity, design quality, and execution. You are also AI-forward in how you work:

• You use AI daily to research, validate assumptions, prototype ideas, draft narratives, and vibe-code functional proofs of concept.
• You see AI not as a novelty but as a core part of your operating model as a product manager.

You’ll join a team of PMs focused on the orchestration portfolio, reporting to the Director of Product Management. You’ll work closely with engineering, design, and data science partners dedicated to this platform, as well as adjacent product teams across workflow automation, on-prem orchestration, LIMS, and lab automation partnerships.

This is a team that takes product craft seriously, embraces AI to work smarter, and believes the best ideas win regardless of where they come from.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building SaaS products, platforms, or automation systems
• Experience shipping a product from 0→1 or early stage through market validation
• Experience with workflow engines, orchestration frameworks, or cloud platform architecture
• Deep comfort with ambiguity and complex systems
• A tasteful product sense with a strong POV on UX, information architecture, and simplicity
• Exceptional communication and narrative writing
• Demonstrated success leading multi-team efforts and influencing architecture
• Demonstrated fluency with AI tools in your product management practice

Requirements

• Track record of building platform products that other teams build on top of (internal platforms, developer ecosystems, integration layers)
• Experience defining new categories or creating markets where none existed before
• Experience with outcome-based, usage-based, or value-aligned pricing models
• Comfort operating in regulated, compliance-sensitive, or safety-critical environments
• Familiarity with ML and AI patterns beyond using AI tools
• Domain experience in life sciences, diagnostics, lab automation, or scientific workflows is a plus but not required

Benefits

• Access to genomics sequencing
• Family planning
• Health/dental/vision
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off

Company Description

Illumina is a company deeply rooted in belonging, promoting an inclusive environment where employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our mission. Built on a strong foundation, Illumina has always prioritized openness, collaboration, and seeking alternative perspectives to propel innovation in genomics.

• We are proud to confirm a zero-net gap in pay, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race.
• We also have several Employee Resource Groups (ERG) that deliver career development experiences, increase cultural awareness, and offer opportunities to engage in social responsibility.
• We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.