Director, Product Development (Immunology)
DANVERS, MA On-site
$210,000–$245,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
The mission of the Product Development group is to apply rigorous scientific methods to design, develop, validate and commercialize antibodies, assays, and other reagents that solve unmet needs in basic and translational biomedical research. The Product Development organization’s goal is to provide customers with innovative, industry-leading solutions that accelerate their research, ultimately leading to enhanced biological understanding, and improved human health. The Director, Immunology Product Development leads a team of scientists and is responsible for building a globally competitive reagents and assays portfolio in Immunology serving both academic and biopharma customer segments. They are recognized by internal and external stakeholders as an established domain expert in immunology, and will apply their expertise towards the refinement of company strategic objectives, while ensuring portfolio content developed by their team is consistent with the company’s mission and goals. They actively maintain an up-to-date understanding of the broader trends in basic and translational immunology, and advancements in assay technologies, and are able to effectively communicate these to relevant stakeholders. In partnership with sales and marketing colleagues serving academic and biopharma customers, the Director’s team will drive development of new product and/or product concept suggestions and identify new areas of strategic opportunity based on their advanced domain and market expertise. They will engage extensively with internal and external stakeholders, leveraging their broad network to support continued portfolio and business expansion in alignment with company strategic initiatives. Additionally, the Director will have access to laboratory resources enabling them to contribute to internal immunology-related research efforts. This may include contributions to hypothesis generation, experimental design, and data interpretation, while providing guidance to bench scientists producing data intended for publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
What you'll bring
- Minimum of 10 years related experience with 8+ years of direct people management experience.
- Leverage AI to analyze complex biological datasets, generating novel insights that accelerate scientific decision-making.
- Capable of innovating applications to drive product development and solve customer needs and problems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional organization skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize efforts appropriately.
- Effective communication skills. (verbal and written)
- Demonstrated ability to generate novel scientific hypotheses and design complex experiments to test them.
- Demonstrated leadership experience in academic institutions and biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry settings.
- Experience with established business strategy models.
- Demonstrated ability to work productively in a cross-functional environment.
- Strong track record of successful team leadership.
- A strong track record of authoring and publishing original research in peer-reviewed scientific journals.