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# Director, Product | Lab Archives at Dotmatics

- **Company:** Dotmatics
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $189k–$222k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://www.dotmatics.com/jobs/apply?gh_jid=4750550005

## Job description

Our Why At Dotmatics

At Dotmatics, a Siemens company,  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, 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 We Need

We are looking for an experienced and commercially driven Director of Product to lead the product organization for LabArchives, which comprises three SaaS products primarily serving academic and federal customers:  Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), Inventory, and Scheduler.. You will own the product strategy, roadmap, and results for a platform that thousands of researchers and research organizations rely on every day. You are an operational leader who is AI fluent and adopts AI in the product strategy.  You build a product team that delivers, a commercial owner who understands pricing, renewals, and growth, and a product thinker who earns the respect of engineering. You will work in an modified agile software development environment alongside engineering, sales, marketing, customer success, and the wider Dotmatics organization.

We want someone who treats product as a business, not just a backlog. You know how to turn customer needs, market signals, and company goals into a focused roadmap, then run the team and the process that delivers measurable customer outcomes.

In this role you will get to

- Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for LabArchives, balancing the distinct needs of academic and federal customers working with the key internal stakeholders:  Enterprise and Customer Success, Sales, Engineering, and Business Leadership.
- Lead, coach, and grow the Product team setting clear expectations, building career paths, and raising the quality bar
- Own commercial outcomes for the product also including pricing and packaging
- Work with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success on go-to-market planning, launches, positioning, competitive analysis, and sales enablement
- Build and run the operating rhythm for product: planning cycles, roadmap reviews, prioritization frameworks, and status and metrics reporting to executive leadership
- Define the KPIs for the product, such as adoption, retention, net revenue retention, customer satisfaction, and release quality, and use product analytics and customer data to make decisions
- Partner closely with engineering leadership on architecture, technical debt, scalability, performance, reliability, security, upgradability, and maintainability, and make informed tradeoffs between them
- Translate strategy into iterative epics and stories that maintain fidelity to the goal, continuously adapting to customer feedback to deliver value early and often, using data to refine scope and priorities as needed.
- Guide product requirements for core ELN, Inventory, and Scheduler capabilities such as notebook authoring, data capture, collaboration, sharing and permissions, audit trails, search, and integrations
- Shape requirements specific to federal customers, including security and compliance expectations, procurement realities, data management and sharing requirements, and long-term records retention
- Evaluate where AI can create real value in the LabArchives suite of products, and bring it to market responsibly, based on market demands, while working with our internal AI strategy teams
- Manage  integration partner relationships
- Speak with customers, partners, and funding or policy stakeholders, and represent the product at conferences, user groups, and executive briefings
- Be unrelenting and unremitting in maintaining a quality product.

We are looking for people who have 15+ years of experience in software (SaaS) product management, including 8+ years leading product managers and owning a product or portfolio with commercial accountability. Ideally you will have a degree or higher education in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, and experience with ELNs, LIMS, research data management, or other scientific software.

The Key Skills we are looking for:

- Product leadership of B2B enterprise SaaS products, with a track record of owning roadmap, delivery, and business results
- Leading, hiring, and developing product managers, and building a repeatable product operating model
- Commercial acumen: pricing and packaging, renewals and retention, ARR and net revenue retention, and go-to-market partnership with Sales and Marketing
- Credible, hands-on understanding of engineering: architecture, cloud infrastructure, security, scalability, release management, and technical debt tradeoffs
- Building and executing on product roadmaps and prioritization frameworks
- Working in flexible, Agile-like environments as part of a cross-functional team delivering on time and to specification
- Data-driven decision making using product analytics and customer feedback
- Senior stakeholder, executive, and client communication skills
- Fluency in collaborative documentation and backlog management tools
- Experience with integrating AI tools into daily workflows and into the product

You may also have experience in:

- Selling or supporting products in the education market, including higher education procurement, academic buying cycles, LMS integration (e.g. LTI), and accessibility requirements (WCAG, VPAT)
- U.S. federal customers, including security and compliance frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, FISMA), contract vehicles, and public sector procurement
- Familiarity with research data management practices, data sharing and retention policies, and FAIR data principles
- Identity and access standards (SSO, SAML, OAuth), audit logging, and regulated data environments
- Managing products with multiple, separate customer bases, such as administrative and end-users.
- Hands-on work building AI-powered features in production, with an understanding of AI/ML security considerations for regulated and hardened environments
- Integrating with instruments, LIMS, data platforms, and other scientific systems through APIs
- Product led growth, self-service purchasing, or channel and reseller partnerships
- Working directly in or alongside an engineering team, or an engineering background
- Managing external vendors

Total Rewards

Dotmatics utilises a national market-based approach to base pay benchmarking and pay band development. The candidate's final starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, job specific qualifications & location. In addition to base salary, Dotmatics has implemented a total rewards strategy, which is the combination of compensation, benefits and recognition.

Certain positions are also eligible for variable pay; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.

Other Total Rewards Offered

- Medical, Dental, Vision, Insurance
- Health Spending Accounts
- Wellness Benefits (Mental Health Apps and Fitness Perks)
- Company-paid Life and Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan (with 4% company match; immediate vesting)
- Flexible Time off Plan (for US exempt employees)

This is the range that we, in good faith, believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

Base Pay Range $188,904—$222,240 USD

Research shows us the[confidence gap](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-confidence-gap/359815/) 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.

By submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics [Privacy Notice](https://www.dotmatics.com/privacy-policy) explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information.

Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.

## About Dotmatics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dotmatics provides a cloud‑based scientific R&D platform that connects best‑in‑breed software applications to accelerate research and innovation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG following a $5.1 billion acquisition completed July 1, 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2005
- **Founders**: Stephen Gallagher, Alastair Hill

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Scientific R&D software for life sciences, biopharma, clinical research, and academia.
- **Target customers**: B2B – biopharma companies, contract research organizations (CROs), academic institutions, and forensic/genetic testing labs.
- **Mission**: “To accelerate scientific innovation and help make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.”

## Products & Services
- **Dotmatics Platform**: Cloud‑based enterprise data management platform that harmonizes data from instruments and software for AI‑ready analysis.
- **Luma Agent**: Agentic AI assistant that plans, executes, and documents research workflows, from data query to audit‑ready reports.
- **GraphPad Prism**: Widely used statistical analysis and graphing software for scientists.
- **SnapGene**: Molecular biology visualization and cloning software with detailed documentation.
- **Geneious Suite**: Bioinformatics tools for molecular biology, genomics, and antibody screening.
- **LabArchives**: Electronic lab notebook for capturing and collaborating on experimental data.
- **Other Applications**: OMIQ (flow cytometry), Protein Metrics, nQuery, SoftGenetics (clinical/forensic genetics), and M‑Star.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Acquired by Siemens AG for $5.1 billion (announced April 2025, closed July 2025)
- **Key Metric**: 2 million+ users, 10,000+ customers, 800+ employees (LinkedIn data: 364 employees as of mid‑2025, with 4.7% YoY growth)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners (lead prior to acquisition), Siemens (current parent); customers include Illumina, GSK, Waters Corporation, and PerkinElmer.
- **Growth Signals**: Launch of Luma AI agent; acquisition of SoftGenetics expanding into clinical and forensic markets; 20%+ LinkedIn follower growth; 65% average NPS score.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ecosystem play**: Open platform that unites multiple industry‑leading scientific applications (GraphPad Prism, SnapGene, Geneious) with a data‑driven backbone.
- **AI leadership**: Luma Agent provides end‑to‑end automation with full traceability, a key differentiator in the lab‑of‑the‑future space.
- **Siemens backing**: Access to global industrial reach, resources, and digital infrastructure after acquisition.
- **User base loyalty**: 2 million active scientists across 180+ countries; strong brand recognition in academia and biopharma.

## Strategic Focus
- Transitioning to an AI‑native "Lab of the Future" with Luma Agent as the central orchestrator.
- Expanding into clinical and forensic genetic analysis via recent acquisitions.
- Deepening integration with Siemens’ digital industry portfolio to offer end‑to‑end R&D solutions.
- Continuing to build a multimodal science platform that structures data for AI/ML applications.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Science Driven, Customer Centric, Better Together” – built by scientists for scientists.
- **Work model**: Remote‑friendly with hubs in Boston, UK (Bishop’s Stortford), San Diego, Auckland, Tokyo, Cork, and others.
- **Employee ratings**: 4.1/5 on LinkedIn (work‑life 4.2, culture 3.9, compensation 3.8, career 3.7).
- **Engineering roles**: Senior Full Stack Engineer (Node.js), Staff Data Engineer, Senior Data Analytics Engineer, Performance Test Engineer.
- **Impact**: Work on products used by millions of researchers globally, with the opportunity to shape AI‑driven scientific discovery.

## Sources
1. [dotmatics.com](https://www.dotmatics.com/) – Main site, product overview, Luma Agent details.
2. [dotmatics.com/about-us](https://www.dotmatics.com/about-us) – Mission, vision, company history, acquisition by Siemens.
3. [dotmatics.com/about-careers](https://www.dotmatics.com/about-careers) – Culture, remote/hybrid policy, 800+ employees, global hubs.
4. [linkedin.com/company/dotmatics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dotmatics) – Employee count, revenue, funding, acquisitions, recent departures, job postings.
5. [dotmatics.com/jobs](https://www.dotmatics.com/jobs) – Current open positions.

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