Product Manager, Digital for Research and Tech Dev

The Role

The Product Manager will partner closely with Moderna Research or Technical Development scientists to understand their scientific workflows and translate those needs into scalable consistent releases of our internally developed applications and digital platforms (Benchling and AI enabled tools). You will work closely with software developers to own the end-to-end delivery of assigned projects from requirements discovery through rollout and adoption while ensuring solutions align with shared internal standards and long-term data strategy. This role will report to a Principal Product Manager within Modernas Digital organization.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape how scientific data is captured structured and used across Moderna Research and Technical Development teams. The role balances deep engagement with scientists and disciplined system design ensuring that solutions meet immediate team needs while supporting future reuse reporting and scale.

Heres What Youll Do

• Partner with scientific teams to understand their software-related use cases and with internal software development teams to best support their business needs.

• Capture user requirements and present them for manager review and approval ensuring balance between team needs shared platform standards and long-term scalability.

• Leverage knowledge of R&D scientific software systems to propose potential approaches during requirements gathering.

• Lead requirements gathering and design workshops translating scientific workflows into data models development-ready user stories and release documentation.

• Manage and prioritize the product backlog balancing scientific needs business value and technical constraints

• Analyze and translate end-to-end business data processes - from internal ordering & request systems to bespoke RNA/DNA production workflows.

• Partner with governance teams to establish and enforce platform standards data models and best practices to ensure consistency scalability and reuse across teams.

• Define and drive integration strategies across internal systems to enable seamless data flow interoperability and consistent user experiences across platforms.

• Collaborate with software developers to hand off requirements review and validate delivered configurations and drive iterative refinement through demos and user workshops.

• Develop test plans guide UAT execution and create documentation and training materials to support user training and onboarding.

• Provide user support during rollout and early adoption

• Establish and track product success metrics (e.g. adoption data quality) and drive continuous improvement

• Act as a trusted advisor to scientific stakeholders guiding trade-offs and promoting software development best practices.

Heres What Youll Need (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelors or Masters degree in a life sciences informatics or related discipline

• At least 5-7 years of experience in pharmaceutical research biotech informatics or product-adjacent role

• Hands-on experience using or administering Benchling and integrating it with secondary applications.

• Demonstrated ability to gather refine and translate user requirements into structured system designs

• Strong communication and facilitation skills with the ability to lead workshops and partner effectively with scientific and technical stakeholders

• Experience producing high-quality requirements design and data model documentation to support scalable implementations and ongoing platform support

Heres What Youll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)

• Ph.D. degree in a life sciences informatics or related discipline

• Familiarity with R&D lab workflows (e.g. assay development process development flow cytometry next generation sequencing) and a wide variety of laboratory instrumentation.

• Experience with business process mapping and leading cross-functional requirements or design workshops

• Proven ability to develop fit-for-purpose data models and solutions rooted in strong product understanding and established industry standards.

• Experience creating user documentation training materials and delivering user training

• Comfortable working with external implementation partners

• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver high-quality outcomes in a matrixed environment

• A collaborative curious mindset and a desire to build systems that enable high-quality science at scale

Pay & Benefits

At Moderna we believe that when you feel your best you can do your best work. Thats why our benefits and well-being resources are designed to support youat work at home and everywhere in between.

• Competitive healthcare plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs
• A holistic approach to well-being with access to fitness mindfulness and mental health support
• Family planning benefits including fertility adoption and surrogacy support
• Generous paid time off including vacation volunteer days sabbatical global recharge days and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Savings and investments to help you plan for the future
• Location-specific perks and extras

The salary range for this role is $121600.00 - $194500.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An individuals position within the salary range will be based on several factors including but not limited to specific competencies relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills performance and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus other incentive compensation or equity award subject to company plan eligibility criteria and individual performance.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010 we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.

By living our mission values and mindsets every day our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture. Together we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients our employees the environment and our communities.

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine we invite you to visit to learn more about our current opportunities.

Equal Opportunities

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race color sex gender identity or expression age religion national origin ancestry or citizenship ethnicity disability military or protected veteran status genetic information sexual orientation marital or familial status or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day please apply!

Moderna is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

Accommodations

Were focused on attracting retaining developing and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences backgrounds and ideas we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best.

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations team at .

Export Control Notice This position may involve access to technology or data that is subject to U.S. export control laws including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such employment is contingent upon the applicants ability to access export-controlled information in accordance with U.S. law. Due to the nature of the work and regulatory requirements only individuals who qualify as U.S. persons (citizens permanent residents asylees or refugees) are eligible for this position. For this role Moderna is unable to sponsor non-U.S. persons to apply for an export control license.

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