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Technical Product Manager - Product Testing & Quality Role Overview
Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Specialized's Product Testing & Quality technology platforms, including LIMS, Field Test, and Quality Inspection systems. This role ensures testing, validation, and compliance platforms scale with R&D and NPI demands while protecting premium product quality.
How You'll Make a Difference
You will modernize and scale lab and field-testing platforms, enable end‑to‑end quality traceability, reduce launch risk, and ensure testing systems accelerate-not block-innovation and time‑to‑market.
Core Experience Requirements - Deep LIMS Experience (Non‑Negotiable)
- 7+ years working with enterprise LIMS platforms, ideally STARLIMS
- Hands-on experience with LIMS configuration, workflow design, sample lifecycles, test methods, and results management
- Experience integrating lab instruments and automation with LIMS
- Proven involvement in large-scale LIMS implementations, extensions, or replacements
- Experience owning LIMS as a long-lived enterprise platform, not just a one-time deployment
Systems Integration Leadership
- Direct experience integrating LIMS with R&D systems, PLM or engineering platforms, test automation and lab equipment, and data lakes, analytics platforms, or ERP
- Strong ability to translate business and lab needs into technical integration requirements
- Comfortable partnering with enterprise architecture, integration, and data teams
R&D / Engineering Domain Familiarity
- Experience supporting product development, validation, or testing labs
- Strong understanding of engineering and validation test protocols
- Familiarity with iterative R&D workflows and managing evolving test methods as designs change
- Background in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, or high-tech hardware strongly preferred
Program & Stakeholder Skills
- Ownership of multi-site, multi-year platform programs
- Comfortable managing complex timelines, cross-system dependencies, vendors, system integrators, budgets, and scope
- Acts as a strong bridge between business , engaging lab scientists, quality engineers, R&D leadership, IT architecture and security teams, and external vendors
- Known for turning ambiguous and evolving requirements into actionable delivery plans
Change Management & Platform Maturity Growth
- Experience modernizing labs from manual or semi-digital processes to enterprise platforms
- Drives adoption and behavioral change, not just system go-live
- Anticipates organizational friction and plans for it
- Guides platforms through multiple stages of maturity over time
Technical, Data, AI & Automation Attributes
- Strong understanding of data models, data integrity, and end-to-end traceability
- Familiarity with validation strategies in both regulated and non-regulated environments
- Experience with APIs, middleware, and event-based integrations
- Applies data discipline to enable scalable reporting, analytics, automation, and future AI use cases
- Identifies opportunities to automate test data capture, result publishing, and quality reporting
- Comfortable reviewing architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and validation documentation
Education and Background
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Background in manufacturing or high‑tech hardware strongly preferred
Personal Traits That Matter Most
- Calm under complexity and proven delivery when requirements evolve mid-flight
- Highly structured thinker who brings order to complex testing, data, and integration environments
- Influential without authority and able to align teams across organizations
- Long-term mindset, designing solutions that scale as R&D and testing volume increase
Additional Job Description
Specialized · United States, Canada