Senior Product Manager Cell Culture

Senior Product Manager Cell Culture BioLife Solutions is repeatedly named one of Washington's 100 Best Companies to Work For, a list curated by Seattle Business Magazine. We welcome you to apply to join our dynamic, high-energy team. Here you will find a performance-based, family-oriented environment where authentic communication and treating colleagues with respect are required. Our employees receive a competitive benefits package, which includes a 401k matching program. BioLife Solutions is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of class-defining cell and gene therapy bioproduction tools and services. Our solutions facilitate basic and applied research and commercialization of new therapies by maintaining the health of biologic source material and finished products during manufacturing, storage, and distribution. Our solutions offer commercial companies and clinical researchers significant improvement in shelf life and post-preservation viability and function of biologic materials. Our tools portfolio includes our proprietary, serum-free and protein-free, fully defined CryoStor freeze media and HypoThermosol shipping and storage media, ThawSTAR family of automated, water-free thawing products, and evo cold chain management system. The Senior Product Manager serves in a hybrid capacity, combining responsibilities of a traditional Product Manager with those of a Field Application Scientist (FAS). This role drives product strategy, development, lifecycle management, and commercial execution for solutions supporting cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing in Cell Culture and Cell Expansion. In addition, the role provides direct field-based scientific and technical support to customers, enabling successful evaluation, adoption, and scaling of BioLife's cell expansion technologies. This hybrid role is a pivotal customer-facing and product-driving role, ensuring BioLife's portfolio delivers best-in-class upstream solutions, while also translating field insights into actionable product requirements that expands BioLife's product offerings. The position needs to work cross functionally as products champion, and strategic accounts to advance clinical and commercial CGT manufacturing. Duties and Responsibilities: Develop and execute product strategy and portfolio roadmap for cell culture product lines aligned with BioLife's CGT growth priorities. Identify unmet needs through customer engagement, market analysis, technology trends, and competitive assessments. Understand competitor landscape and identify novel technologies to address market gaps. Oversee lifecycle activities for existing and New Product Introductions (NPI). Collaborate with marketing and sales to develop product positioning, value propositions, messaging, training content, competitive briefs, and launch materials. Support field teams with technical expertise during pre-sales, evaluation, and post sales activities. Participate in customer visits, seminars, workshops, and trade shows as a product and technical subject matter expert. Provide onsite and remote technical support for customer evaluations, workflow optimization, and troubleshooting across cell expansion and culture workflows. Collaborate with BioLife's Center of Excellence or customers to develop and deliver application notes, best practice guides, and experimental recommendations to support customer success. Build strong relationships with scientists, process development teams, and manufacturing stakeholders in clinical and commercial CGT programs. Evaluate partnership, licensing, and co development opportunities to expand the cell expansion technology portfolio. Partner with Supplier(s) and Operations to ensure supply continuity, product quality, and manufacturability at scale. Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Additional expectations include: Reporting Relationships: This position reports to the Director of Product Management. Job Requirements: Deep understanding of cell culture biology, cell expansion workflows, bioreactor systems, media optimization, closed system processing, and upstream CGT manufacturing. Knowledge or hands-on technical experience with bioreactor platforms and cell culture supplements. Demonstrated ability to support customers directlyproviding scientific guidance, troubleshooting, workflow optimization, and training. Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills for market opportunity assessment and competitive positioning. Excellent cross functional leadership and project management capabilities, including influence without authority. Strong communication and presentation skills for both scientific and business audiences. Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced, highly cross functional environment. Familiarity with cGMP, risk management, regulatory expectations, and quality systems relevant to CGT raw materials and equipment. Job Specifications: Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, or related field required. Advanced degree (MSc or PhD) preferred, especially with emphasis in cell biology, immunology, or bioprocessing. 5+ years of product management experience in biotechnology, bioprocessing, cell therapy, or life sciences tools OR 3+ years product management + 2+ years field applications, tech support, or process development experience. Hands on experience with cell culture, upstream CGT workflows, bioreactors, or closed system expansion technologies strongly preferred. Experience conducting customer training, troubleshooting experiments, workflow optimization, or technical support is highly desirable. Prior work in regulated environments (GMP) preferred. Ability to travel 3040% for customer visits, field support, conferences, and internal meetings. Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively across scientific, technical, operational, and business stakeholders. BioLife Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. BioLife Solutions participates in E-Verify. BioLife Solutions provides a substance-free workplace, and all offers of employment will be contingent on opiate drug test and background check. The US base salary range for this position at full-time is $124,937 $181,157 per year. Typically, new hires are brought in at or near the midpoint of the range to allow for future growth and advancement within the role. This range represents the full compensation range for this position, with consideration given to experience, skills, and qualifications. Our salary ranges are determined by position, level, location, and market competitive benchmarks. Individual pay within a level is determined by work location (including geographic pay zone region), job related skills, experience, education, and training. The BioLife Solutions total rewards program includes, but is not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401K with generous match, life and disability insurance as well as time off programs of Vacation and Sick time. Additionally, we believe in our team members sharing the success of our business and therefore we may provide cash bonus or stock equity grants based on company performance as a part of our total rewards package.

Created: 2026-03-13