Purpose
PerkinElmer is seeking a Software Product Manager to own the software product roadmap for analytical instrument software aligned to an assigned product line.
Software is an increasingly critical competitive dimension in analytical instrumentation: instrument control software, data processing algorithms, connectivity, and reporting tools increasingly determine customer satisfaction, switching costs, and long-term loyalty. This role ensures that the product line's software strategy is as deliberate and commercially rigorous as its hardware strategy.
The Software Product Manager works at the intersection of product management and software engineering — translating commercial and customer requirements into well-defined software product specifications, prioritising the software backlog against commercial impact, and partnering with the R&D software team to ensure delivery meets market expectations. They are accountable for the software product, not the software development — they set what gets built and why, not how.
We are offering a hybrid working contract split between home and our offices in High Wycombe
Software Product Strategy & Roadmap
Own the software product roadmap for the assigned product line — defining the vision, prioritising features and releases, and sequencing development work against commercial opportunity and customer valueDevelop software product requirements: user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria that R&D can act on — with clear priority rationale for each itemMake evidence-based trade-off decisions about software feature scope, release timing, and technical debt — balancing commercial urgency with software quality and architectural sustainabilityOwn the software product versioning and release strategy — coordinating release cadence with hardware product launches and sustaining release cycles
