Senior Product Manager, Liquid Handling

Overview

HighRes is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Liquid Handling to join our Product Management Team.

HighRes is a revolutionary laboratory automation leader committed to improving human health through life science robotics. Our technologies enable scientists to develop lifesaving medicines, treatments, and therapies while maximizing resources and increasing output. At HighRes, we foster innovation, embrace diversity and value the opportunity to hear every team member’s voice, ideas, and input, contributing to our continued success.

The Senior Product Manager will lead the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management of liquid handling and dispensing products serving the life sciences market. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep expertise in liquid handling technologies and laboratory workflows with strong business acumen, market understanding, and product management discipline.

The ideal candidate understands not only how liquid handling systems and dispensers are designed, but also how they are actually used in laboratory environments across pharma, biotech, and broader life sciences applications. This person will work cross-functionally with engineering, applications, commercial, and customer-facing teams to define differentiated products that solve real workflow challenges and create business value.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for liquid handling and dispensing products including identifying unmet market needs, new concept development, product positioning and developing associated business cases to execute against
• Serve as the subject matter expert for liquid handling workflows, application requirements, and customer use cases to ensure customer success
• Gather and synthesize voice-of-customer insights from scientists, automation engineers, lab managers, commercial teams, and strategic partners
• Partner with engineering and applications teams to make effective tradeoff decisions across performance, usability, reliability, integration, cost, and timeline
• Conduct competitive analysis and track relevant market, technology, and customer trends in life sciences and lab automation
• Support product launches through positioning, messaging, training, and go-to-market collaboration with marketing and sales
• Drive alignment across internal stakeholders and help connect technical product details to broader customer and business value

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as life sciences, engineering, chemistry, biology, biomedical engineering, or related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in product management, product marketing, applications, engineering, or a related role in life sciences instrumentation, lab automation, or liquid handling
• Demonstrated expertise in liquid handlers and dispensers in a related environment
• Experience working with customers or internal teams in pharma, biotech, CRO, academic, or other life sciences environments
• Strong business and commercial judgment, including experience evaluating markets, customer segments, competitive positioning, and product value propositions
• Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment and influence without direct authority

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of liquid handling and dispensing including applicable use, performance criteria and market knowledge
• Familiarity with laboratory workflow areas such as drug discovery, genomics, sample prep, assay development, cell biology, synthetic biology, screening, PCR/qPCR, ELISA, or compound management
• Experience with automated work cells, device integration, robotic workflows, or lab automation software environments
• Experience building business cases and supporting product launches for capital equipment, consumables, or integrated workflow solutions
• MBA or advanced degree in a relevant scientific or technical field

Key Competencies

The ideal candidate is someone who can operate at the intersection of: 

• Liquid handling technical depth
• Laboratory workflow understanding
• Life sciences market knowledge
• Business and product strategy

About HighRes

We design and build innovative robotic systems and laboratory devices used by pharmaceutical and biotech companies and academic research laboratories. Our work helps scientists accelerate drug discovery, high throughput genotyping, siRNA screening, next-generation sequencing sample prep, biorepository science and molecular diagnostics with highly flexible, expandable, and modular integrated systems, bench-top devices and consumables that are easily configured (and reconfigured) to create research environments conducive to achieving breakthrough results.