Head Software Product Manager - Lab Automation & Liquid Handling

Ever wondered how your skills and unique background could impact the world of tomorrow? Join our Product Management team and bring your passion and talent to work.

Head Software Product Management - Lab Automation & Liquid Handling (80-100%)

Männedorf, Zürich

Your contribution

In this pivotal leadership role within our Product Management team, you will define and drive Tecan's software strategy for our liquid handling product portfolio. As Head of Software Product Management, you will bridge Product Management and R&D, ensuring that architectural and product decisions serve both customer needs and business objectives. You will build, develop, and lead a high-performing Software Product Management team, championing a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and accountability.

You will play a key role in transformation-leading change, developing people, and making critical decisions on hiring, team structure, and performance management. Your ability to execute, set clear direction, and deliver measurable results will be essential as you drive platform improvements and ensure our software products meet the highest standards of quality and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing Software Product Management team through clear direction, coaching, and succession planning.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-accountability team culture.
• Champion customer insight and competitive awareness as the foundation for all software product decisions.
• Drive Tecan's software strategy and product roadmap, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health.
• Serve as the dedicated product counterpart for software architecture within R&D, ensuring business-defined requirements are met.
• Serve as the product voice in architectural decisions across all software layers, ensuring control, orchestration, middleware, applications, and integrations align with business-defined requirements
• Lead build vs. buy vs. partner evaluations for software components and platform capabilities.

Your background

We're not just looking for hard skills: We're looking for people who bring their passion and talent to work.

• A degree in Software/Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; an advanced degree or MBA is a plus.
• 5-7+ years of Product Management experience, ideally in Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Medical Devices, or hardware-related industries.
• Strong leadership experience, including hiring, developing, and managing teams.
• Experience with lab informatics ecosystems (LIMS, ELN, integration standards such as SiLA2, OPC-UA, or similar).
• Deep technical understanding of APIs, distributed systems, middleware, orchestration, and embedded systems.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English; German or other languages are a plus.
• Strategic thinking combined with hands-on execution and a goal-oriented mindset.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and modern software development practices.
• Knowledge of regulatory and quality standards (e.g., ISO, FDA, GDPR).
• Willingness to travel internationally as required.

What makes working at Tecan unique

The chance to make it count and to have an impact on the world of tomorrow

• Working in an international and diverse environment
• The chance to grow your career within the company
• Feel empowered by our strong and unique company culture
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package

Join Tecan, a great place to work! Read about our recent certification from Great Place to Work.

We're looking forward to receiving your application online. Please submit your CV or resume (w/o picture and w/o cover letter, reference letters and diplomas are optional).

Our purpose.

At Tecan we are driven to improve people's lives and health. We do this by empowering our customers to scale healthcare innovation globally from life science to the clinic. We collaborate with our customers from early-stage innovation through project implementation and beyond. We deliver the products, services and solutions that make lab processes and medical procedures precise, reproducible and compliant.

Stay unique and make it count.

Our values - trust, highest standards and ambition - are the cornerstones of our business and provide the framework for Tecan's culture. We foster a positive and empowering environment where our rarest assets, our unique employees, can grow and bring their passion and talent to work.

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