Description:
Join Illumina’s Technical Product Management team and play an important role in the design and development of cutting-edge next generation sequencing platforms to unlock the power of the genome – to transform healthcare and beyond.
As a Software Technical Product Manager, you will work with internal and external stakeholders to elicit and analyze user needs, transform user needs into software system requirements and communicate requirements to development teams. This crucial role partners with Marketing, UX, software/firmware development and test teams to build software for Next Generation Sequencing platforms.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to transform user needs into a complete description of software system requirements
- Participate in use case development, requirements gathering, requirements analysis and review meetings
- Create wireframes, high-quality workflow diagrams and other visualizations to communicate technical concepts and functional design
- Write formal, detailed software requirements specifications and software design documentation
- Contribute to user-facing software product documentation as a product subject matter expert
- Work in a collaborative team environment; accurately and fully describe user needs and software requirements to UX, software/firmware development and testing team members
- Work closely with software/firmware test teams to assist in troubleshooting issues, and drive system design improvements
Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering or related discipline
- 0-2 years of experience in systems analysis and software design.
- Knowledge of formalized requirements gathering and analysis methods and tools
- Strong written and verbal communication, and presentation skills, for both technical and non-technical audience
- Experience with Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies
- Ability to multi-task, stay organized, and incorporate feedback in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with Atlassian tools (Jama, Jira, Confluence), GitHub and prototyping tools (Balsamiq, Axure), a plus.
- Experience with design/development/testing/support of software/firmware applications for biomedical instruments/ medical devices, a plus
- Experience working with bioinformatic workflows and multi-omic data, a plus