Product Manager | Geneious New

Our Why At Dotmatics

At Dotmatics, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive.

Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, MStar, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.

We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.

We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.

Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.

Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics

Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.

You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R\&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.

We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.

What do we need

Dotmatics is seeking an enthusiastic and hands-on Product Manager with applied molecular biology and/or bioinformatics experience to join the Geneious product team in Auckland, New Zealand. You’ll apply your scientific expertise and creative problem solving skills to translate customer insights and business objectives into product initiatives.

You will be instrumental in shaping the future product direction and growth of our Geneious software products, which are used daily by researchers around the world. By engaging with both customers and internal stakeholders, you will deliver product improvements that result in measurable user satisfaction, retention and growth.

We are open to graduates who have the relevant education, so previous product management experience may not be necessary .

This is a hybrid position based in our Auckland office, where you’ll collaborate closely with local and globally distributed development teams.

In this role you’ll get to:

Become a master of Geneious, the competitive landscape and relevant trends

Be the voice of both the customer and the business within the development team

Own product initiatives, and define project scope, milestones and timelines in collaboration with stakeholders

Identify, prioritize, and help resolve user-facing issues and functional challenges

Undertake user research and prototype tests in collaboration with designers

Leverage data analytics and user insights to inform product decisions

Define requirements and designs, in collaboration with the development team

Communicate development progress to the company and collaborate with other teams to produce documentation and collateral

Interface with other product teams, marketing, customer success and other stakeholders as necessary

We are looking for people who have a postgrad degree in Biology or Bioinformatics, ideally with 4+ years of molecular biology research experience(If you have extensive scientific experience in this area, previous product management experience may not be necessary). The ideal candidate is a flexible, pragmatic and creative problem solver with strong interpersonal skills and empathy, who can both focus in on the details and zoom out to see the big picture.

The key skills we are looking for:

Excellent written and oral communication - Help developers understand scientific workflows, dive deep with peers and talk big picture strategy with executives

Research experience - Apply your molecular biology / bioinformatics / scientific software experience to building software that enables users to efficiently and effectively perform sequence design and analysis workflows

Cross-functional collaboration - Work across design, engineering, support, marketing and directly with customers to understand needs and balance trade-offs

Data analysis - Analyse qualitative and quantitative data on product usage, limitations and feedback to inform product development and prioritisation

Customer centric - Uncover and solve real problems by proactively seeking feedback and analysing data with an open mind

Time management and organisational skills - Product management is at the confluence of customers, design, engineering, marketing and sales. There is lots to do and organise

Flexibility and Pragmatism - Expect and prepare for changing priorities based on changing understanding, technologies, or business priorities. Know when something is good enough and when you need to start from scratch

Scientific workflow decomposition - Break down complex experimental or analytical processes into logical steps to help map user workflows.

Problem framing and hypothesis driven thinking - Approach product challenges the same way a scientist approaches research: with hypotheses, constraints, and validation.

You May Also Have:

Familiarity with UX tools (e.g., Figma) and ability to partner effectively with design to support intuitive user flows

Fluency in Agile methodologies and tools (Jira, Confluence), with experience driving user stories from backlog to production

Research shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.

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