Sr Staff Product Marketing Manager - DRAGEN Software

San Diego, CA (On-site)

$156K/yr – $233K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive DRAGEN product marketing at Illumina, defining vision, messaging, and go-to-market strategy to win in genomics software.

  • Own end-to-end GTM for DRAGEN releases, expansions, and launches.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional, matrixed teams and influence senior stakeholders.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Product and Portfolio Leadership
  • Serve as the global product marketing owner for DRAGEN, helping set vision, strategy, and priorities across launches, lifecycle, and expansion opportunities.
  • Define and evolve DRAGEN’s positioning, messaging, and value framework that clearly articulates differentiation in performance, accuracy, comprehensiveness, and scalability.
  • Translate complex bioinformatics workflows and benchmarks into compelling, customer‑centric stories that resonate with both scientific and commercial audiences.
  • Go‑to‑Market Strategy and Execution
  • Lead end‑to‑end go‑to‑market strategy for major DRAGEN releases, expansions, and application launches, in close partnership with Product Management, Commercial, and Regional Marketing teams.
  • Develop integrated launch plans, marketing calendars, and campaign frameworks that drive awareness, adoption, and revenue impact.
  • Guide segmentation and use‑case prioritization to ensure DRAGEN wins in both established and emerging markets.
  • Customer and Market Insight
  • Partner with Product Management to understand voice of the customer and the market, engaging deeply with researchers, clinicians, bioinformaticians, and key opinion leaders to validate strategy and inform roadmap narratives.
  • Lead market and competitive intelligence efforts to anticipate shifts in bioinformatics, compute, and analytics ecosystems.
  • Partner with Product Management to shape how customer needs and market trends are reflected in roadmap communication and investment decisions.
  • Commercial Enablement and Revenue Impact
  • Enable global sales, field applications, and partners with world‑class storytelling, training, competitive positioning, and deal‑support assets.
  • Own the creation of high‑impact marketing deliverables, including cornerstone messaging, customer stories, thought leadership, and technical‑scientific content.
  • Partner with demand generation teams to design campaigns that convert DRAGEN’s technical superiority into measurable pipeline and growth.
  • Cross‑Functional Leadership
  • Operate as a senior leader within the software and informatics marketing team, influencing without authority across product, R&D, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
  • Mentor and raise the bar for product marketing excellence, helping define best practices for flagship software across Illumina.
  • Represent DRAGEN marketing in executive forums with clarity, confidence, and strategic perspective.

Illumina

At Illumina, our goal is to apply innovative technologies and revolutionary assays to the analysis of genetic variation and function, making studies possible that were not even imaginable just a few years ago. These studies will help make the realization of personalized medicine possible. With such rapid advances in technology taking place, it is mission critical to have solutions that are not only innovative, but flexible, scalable, and complete with industry-leading support and service. As a global company that places high value on collaborative interactions, rapid delivery of solutions, and prioritizing the needs of its customers, we strive to meet this challenge. Illumina’s innovative, array-based solutions for DNA, RNA, and protein analysis serve as tools for disease research, drug development, and the development of molecular tests in the clinic.

Founded in 1998
San Diego, California, USA
9.3K employees (329 in marketing)