Senior Product Manager, Reagents

The posting, as Ginkgo Bioworks wrote it

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.

Position Summary
As a Product Manager on the Reagents team, you will own one or more product lines end-to-end—from customer discovery and roadmap definition through launch, growth, and ongoing customer success. We are a small, high-ownership team, so this role spans the full commercial surface of the business: product management, marketing, e-commerce and commercial operations, and customer success. You will partner closely with our science, foundry operations, supply chain, and engineering teams to bring new reagent products to market, scale the ones already in customers’ hands, and continuously improve the experience scientists have with Ginkgo Reagents.

This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to combine strategic product thinking with operational execution. You will be expected to set the direction for your product area, then roll up your sleeves to make it happen—writing PRDs, talking to customers, pricing kits, fixing a stuck order, and shipping a launch campaign all in the same week.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Discovery & Roadmap

Customer Discovery: Run customer interviews, voice-of-customer programs, and market research with scientists at academic labs, pharma and biotech R&D teams, and AI-driven discovery companies to deeply understand workflows, unmet needs, and willingness to pay.

Roadmap Ownership: Define and own the product roadmap for your area (e.g., cell-free protein synthesis, PichiaWorks, proteins and enzymes); prioritize ruthlessly across new products, formats, and improvements based on customer value, commercial impact, and feasibility.

Requirements & Specs: Write clear product requirements (PRDs, user stories, success criteria) and partner with science and operations teams to translate them into manufacturable, automation-friendly products.

Market & Competitive Intelligence: Build and maintain a current view of the competitive landscape, pricing, and emerging customer segments; use it to inform roadmap and positioning decisions.

• Launch & Go-to-Market

Launch Ownership: Drive product launches end-to-end—launch plan, readiness checklist, cross-functional coordination, internal enablement, and post-launch tracking.

Positioning & Messaging: Develop positioning, value propositions, and messaging tailored to target customer segments, and translate them into customer-facing assets in partnership with marketing.

Pricing & Packaging: Set and iterate on pricing, packaging, and bundling decisions based on customer research, competitive benchmarks, and unit economics.

• Commercial Operations & E-commerce

Storefront Ownership: Own the e-commerce experience on the Reagents storefront,
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ry, or synthetic biology

Understanding of synthetic biology, drug discovery and development, or the broader life sciences tools market

Strong presentation (powerpoint or gslides) and spreadsheet skills (excel or gsheets)

Total compensation for this role is market driven, and includes both salary and company stock awards. Base pay is ultimately determined based on a candidate’s skills, expertise, and experience. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental & vision coverage, health spending accounts, voluntary benefits, leave of absence policies, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k) program with employer contribution, 8 paid holidays in addition to a full-week winter shutdown and unlimited Paid Time Off policy.

Ginkgo has implemented a return to office policy effective October 1, 2025. This roll requires will require the employee to be onsite 5 days per week.

It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.

It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.

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