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Technical Product Manager - Product Testing & QualityRole 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
BENEFITS
As a full-time, regular teammate, you are eligible for the following benefits, beginning the first of the month following your start date.
Benefits include:

• Competitive pay with annual performance-based reviews for continued growth and recognition

• Comprehensive healthcare plan options, including PPO, EPO, HDHP, and HMO (acupuncture and physical therapy included)

• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer HSA contributions when enrolled in the High-Deductible Healthcare Plan (HDHP)

• Dental and Vision plans

• 401(k) Company Matching up to $5,000 annually with immediate 100% vesting and administrative fees paid for by the company

• Company-paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program that provides access to individualized mental well-being care

• Generous Vacation, Sick, Paid Holidays, and Volunteer Time Off

• 14 weeks of 100% paid leave for birthing parents and 8 weeks of 100% paid leave for non-birthing parents, plus a Specialized bike for your new baby

• Up to $9,000 annually in Career Development & Degree Assistance

• Up to $250 annually in Fitness & Wellness Reimbursement

• Industry Pro-Deal Discounts and Perks

For additional information on benefits and perks, please visit: https://benefits.specialized.com.
PAY
Below is a summary of compensation elements for this role at the company if based in the following locations:
California Base Pay Range: ($100,000 $140,000 )
*At Specialized, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and will depend on your work experience, skills, certification, and location.
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