Head Software Product Manager - Lab Automation & Liquid Handling

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.

Join Tecan! Join the market leader! Work in an international and dynamic environment, share our success! 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. 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.

• 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.