Product Strategy, Autonomous Laboratories

Job Description

About Agilent

Agilent is a global leader in laboratory and clinical technologies, we are passionate about bringing great science to life. We help scientists, researchers, and clinicians address some of the world’s most important challenges across life science research, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, food, environmental testing, and related markets.

Leveraging more than 50 years of expertise, we develop advanced instruments, software, consumables, and services that enable customers to generate reliable scientific results and improve scientific, economic, and operational outcomes. Our global organization combines deep technical expertise with a commitment to quality, innovation, and customer impact. We work collaboratively with our customers on their journey to make a real difference in human lives. Our culture is founded on trust, respect, and uncompromising integrity, and we pride ourselves on being a dynamic and inclusive workplace that empowers employees and fosters innovation.

The Role

Agilent is seeking a highly experienced product strategy leader to help define how laboratories will evolve over the next five to ten years and translate that vision into actionable strategies for our businesses and product organizations.

This senior individual contributor works across the enterprise at the intersection of customer insight, science, technology, and business strategy. As a recognized internal expert, you will lead high-impact, long-range initiatives, advise senior leadership, and independently solve complex challenges spanning multiple functions with limited support. You will connect external signals and customer needs with business-group priorities, product roadmaps, and execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess how AI, automation, robotics, connected instruments, digital workflows, data platforms, and autonomous experimentation could change laboratory work. Identify practical applications in scientific productivity, instrument operation, workflow optimization, decision support, and service; distinguish durable shifts from short-term technology cycles.
• Evaluate new products, solutions, partnerships, and business models. Develop strategic and financial cases that assess customer value, differentiation, and feasibility; recommend when to build, partner, invest, acquire, or apply existing capabilities differently.
• Develop and continually refine Agilent’s view of Autonomous Labs. Synthesize scientific, technological, economic, and operational trends, including changing workforce models and productivity pressures, into scenarios and implications for our portfolio, business models, and investments.
• Engage scientists, laboratory leaders, executives, key opinion leaders, and strategic customers to understand current operations and emerging needs. Identify workflow bottlenecks, fragmented data, automation gaps, usability challenges, and inefficiencies that span individual instruments or product categories.
• Synthesize customer feedback across markets and businesses into clear problem statements, strategic requirements, opportunity areas, and investment recommendations. Connect market direction, competitive developments, technology adoption, and laboratory economics to customer value and business opportunity.
• Partner with individual business and product groups to translate enterprise insight into specific decisions about what to develop, accelerate, integrate, redesign, partner around, or stop pursuing. Convert recommendations into product concepts, roadmap changes, customer experiments, and investment cases.
• Lead initiatives across product management, R&D, commercial, digital, service, and business leadership. Align teams around customer problems that cross organizational boundaries and opportunities to combine instruments, software, consumables, automation, services, and data into more complete solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a scientific, engineering, business, or related discipline, or equivalent experience. A PhD, MBA, or equivalent advanced experience is strongly preferred.
• Typically 12+ years of relevant combined experience across product strategy, product management, scientific research, strategy consulting, operations, technology, business development, or related fields.
• Experience in life sciences, analytical instrumentation, diagnostics, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, laboratory technology, or adjacent markets is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to understand complex markets, translate trends into business strategy, and turn customer insight into product, portfolio, or organizational action.
• A record of delivering results across functions and working credibly with senior business leaders, scientists, engineers, and product teams.

Skills and Competencies

• Strategic and systems thinking, with the ability to recognize patterns across markets, customers, technologies, and businesses.
• Scientific and technical fluency, curiosity about AI and automation, and sound product judgment grounded in customer needs.
• Structured problem solving and analytical rigor; ability to turn ambiguous information into concrete decisions and priorities.
• Executive communication, facilitation, and influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
• Ability to move between long-range strategy and practical execution, aligning stakeholders and sustaining follow-through.

Additional Details

La fourchette salariale au Canada de ce poste est de 143,220.00$ à 252,656.00$ CA par an, et le titulaire est admissible à des primes, à des actions et à des avantages sociaux. Nos fourchettes salariales sont déterminées en fonction du rôle, du niveau et de l’emplacement. À l’intérieur de la fourchette, la rémunération individuelle est déterminée par le lieu de travail et d’autres facteurs, notamment les compétences liées à l’emploi, l’expérience et les études ou la formation pertinentes. Au cours du processus d’embauche, un recruteur peut fournir des renseignements sur l’échelle salariale particulière d’un lieu de travail donné. Vous trouverez des renseignements complémentaires à https://careers.agilent.com/locations/americas/canada.

This job has a full time weekly schedule. It includes the option to work remotely. Applications for this job will be accepted until at least October 20, 2026 or until the job is no longer posted.

The full-time equivalent pay range for this position is $236,832.00 - $370,050.00/yr USD in the US, or $143,220.00 - $252,656.00/yr CAD in Canada, plus eligibility for bonus, stock and benefits. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. During the hiring process, a recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for a preferred location. Pay and benefit information by country are available at: https://careers.agilent.com/locations

Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and merit-based employer that values individuals of all backgrounds at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, religion or religious creed, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, local law, ordinance, or regulation and will not be discriminated against on these bases. Agilent Technologies, Inc., is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive in the workplace where everyone is welcome, and strives to support candidates with disabilities. If you have a disability and need assistance with any part of the application or interview process or have questions about workplace accessibility, please email job_posting@agilent.com or contact +1-262-754-5030. For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please visit www.agilent.com/en/accessibility.

Travel Required:

25% of the Time

Shift:

Day

Duration:

No End Date

Job Function:

Administration