Sr. Product Designer (Life Science Reagents)
About GenScript Founded in 2002 in New Jersey, GenScript Biotech Corporation accelerates innovation in biotech and healthcare by providing researchers and companies with the building blocks needed to develop groundbreaking treatments and products. Guided by its mission to Make People and Nature Healthier Through Biotechnology, and its role as a well-recognized biotechnology company, GenScript has a team of approximately 6,165 employees and has served more than 200,000 customers across over 100 countries and regions.Job Title: Senior Product Designer / Senior Strategic Product Manager (Life Science Reagents) Position Type: Full-time, Strategic/Front-end Portfolio Management Location: Piscataway, New Jersey Compensation: The estimated salary range is $125,000 - $155,000 based upon experience level. Job Scope: At GenScript, we believe great products begin long before the first experiment. As a Senior Product Designer under GenScript's Catalog Products Business Unit, you won't simply manage existing products—you will design the future of our life science research portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of science, technology, customer insight, and business strategy, helping define WHAT products GenScript should build over the next 3–5 years. Focused purely on front-end strategic planning, you will define the target specifications (What) while liberating R&D to explore the best execution (How). You will work closely with R&D, Marketing, Business Development, Commercial, and executive leadership to discover unmet customer needs, identify emerging technology opportunities, design high-barrier product portfolios, and shape long-term innovation strategy. Key Responsibilities (What You'll Do): 1) Design Future Product Portfolio & Roadmaps Portfolio Strategy: Build long-term product portfolio strategies across antibodies, recombinant proteins, enzymes, bioassays, protein purification products, Cell & Gene Therapy (GCT) reagents, and emerging technology platforms. White Space Identification: Pinpoint technology white spaces and unarticulated customer needs to establish a sustainable, high-margin product menu. Strategic Roadmapping: Formulate and maintain future product roadmaps aligned with global business unit growth objectives. 2) Customer Insights & Actionable VOC Deep Workflow Understanding: Transform scientific insights into commercial opportunities by deep-diving into customer workflows, Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD), and Voice of the Customer (VOC). Market Intuition: Keep a pulse on emerging research trends, technology evolution, and the global competitive landscape. Your goal is to discover latent opportunities that customers have not yet articulated. 3) Shape Innovation & Platform Strategy Multidimensional Evaluation: Evaluate future portfolio opportunities by integrating scientific feasibility, customer value, market potential, competitive differentiation, intellectual property (IP), and business economics. Make vs. B...