Staff Product Owner

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize backlogs across multiple scrum teams
• Translate company initiatives into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Define product capabilities for instrument control, cloud analytics, and ML pipelines
• Partner with bioinformatics, cloud, and instrument software teams to design scalable data pipelines
• Prototype, write scripts, and run test suites to validate ideas and reproduce issues
• Lead requirements gathering, analysis, and risk documentation (SRS)
• Champion UX and human-centered design for scientists and lab technicians
• Drive cross-team coordination and surface dependencies

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Bioengineering, Computer Science, or related field
• 8–12+ years in life sciences software
• Working knowledge of cell biology, multi-omic analysis, and DNA sequencing
• Track record shipping software spanning instrumentation, cloud SaaS, and data analysis
• Hands-on coding ability to prototype and run test suites
• Experience with ML/AI products (traditional ML or LLM/agent-based features)
• Familiarity with Go, React, MongoDB, Redis, gRPC, AWS, and Ubuntu Core
• Experience with regulated software workflows (IEC 62304, FDA 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, or IVDR)

Benefits

• Stock options
• Discretionary annual bonus
• No cost health insurance plans
• 401k with company match
• Flexible paid time off

About the Company

Element Biosciences is passionate about empowering the scientific community with more freedom and flexibility to accelerate collective impact on humanity through efficient, product-driven innovation.