{"id":4088016,"url":"https://alion.io/job/agilent-technologies-avp-product-strategy","title":"AVP, Product Strategy","company":{"id":6171,"name":"Agilent Technologies","domain":"agilent.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/agilent-technologies","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":56,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.679,"repost_share":0.018,"time_to_fill_p50_days":34,"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T19:27:59Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T16:08:31Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-11-12T16:08:31Z","days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Job Description\nRole overview\nThe Lead, Product Strategy will translate customer needs, scientific workflows, market developments, and emerging technologies into actionable product and portfolio strategies for Agilent’s Scientific Intelligence organization.\nWorking at the intersection of science, technology, customer experience, and business strategy, this senior individual contributor will identify opportunities across AI, automation, robotics, connected instruments, digital workflows, data platforms, and autonomous experimentation.\nThe role will develop strategic recommendations, product concepts, and investment cases that inform long-term direction and multi-year roadmaps. It will connect evidence from customer engagements with decisions about what Agilent should develop, accelerate, integrate, partner around, or stop pursuing.\nSuccess requires scientific and technical fluency, commercial judgment, and the ability to align stakeholders across Product Management, Engineering, Applications, Design, Commercial, Service, and external partners.\nKey responsibilities\nCustomer insight and opportunity discovery\nEngage scientists, laboratory leaders, executives, and strategic customers to understand scientific objectives, operational challenges, and emerging needs.\nMap workflows and customer journeys to identify bottlenecks, fragmented data, manual handoffs, usability challenges, and unmet needs.\nTranslate customer requests into validated problem statements, value hypotheses, and strategic opportunities.\nSynthesize insights across customer segments and regions, distinguishing recurring market needs from customer-specific requirements.\nPartner with Customer Solutions & Applications and Product Design and Research to validate assumptions through observation, interviews, prototypes, and customer experiments.\nMarket and technology strategy\nAssess how AI, automation, robotics, connected instruments, digital workflows, data platforms, and autonomous experimentation could reshape laboratory operations.\nEvaluate competitive offerings, ecosystem developments, customer adoption patterns, and changes in laboratory economics.\nDistinguish durable shifts and commercially relevant opportunities from short-term technology trends.\nDevelop scenarios and strategic implications for product differentiation, portfolio evolution, and business models.\nIdentify opportunities that connect capabilities across instruments, software, consumables, automation, services, and data.\nProduct and portfolio strategy\nDevelop and refine product strategy recommendations aligned with Scientific Intelligence’s vision, customer priorities, and growth objectives.\nContribute to the integrated multi-year roadmap, connecting customer workflows with product, platform, and ecosystem capabilities.\nIdentify portfolio gaps, overlapping offerings, dependencies, and opportunities for reuse.\nRecommend priorities across core growth, modernization, and new value creation.\nTranslate strategic recommendations into product concepts, roadmap proposals, and clear decision options for accountable product and business leaders.\nBusiness cases and investment recommendations\nDevelop strategic and financial cases assessing customer value, market potential, differentiation, feasibility, risk, and economics.\nEvaluate build, buy, partner, configure, and reuse options with relevant stakeholders.\nDefine assumptions, evidence requirements, success measures, and decision points for proposed investments.\nRecommend where to accelerate investment, conduct further discovery, redirect resources, or discontinue exploration.\nContribute to pricing, packaging, monetization, and commercialization assessments with Product Management, Finance, Marketing, and Commercial.\nCustomer validation and new value creation\nShape targeted pilots, proofs of concept, and customer experiments that test strategic assumptions before broader investment.\nEstablish learning objectives and measurable outcomes with execution teams.\nEvaluate whether customer-specific solutions can become repeatable offerings, reusable capabilities, or scalable business opportunities.\nIdentify new value pools arising from connected workflows, intelligent automation, scientific data, and partner-enabled solutions.\nConvert experimental results into recommendations to advance, revise, scale, or stop an initiative.\nEcosystem and enterprise alignment\nPartner with Ecosystem & Partnerships leaders to assess external capabilities, complementary technologies, and joint solution opportunities.\nIncorporate partner insights and interoperability needs into product strategy recommendations.\nAlign stakeholders around customer problems and opportunities that span product and organizational boundaries.\nMaintain feedback loops with Product Management, Engineering, Applications, Commercial, Service, and Customer Adoption & Transformation.\nCommunicate strategic findings through concise narratives, opportunity assessments, business cases, and executive recommendations.\nStrategic execution and learning\nLead cross-functional strategy initiatives through clear questions, structured analysis, milestones, and decision points.\nSupport the transition from approved strategy to accountable product and delivery teams.\nTrack whether strategic assumptions remain valid as customer, market, and technical evidence develops.\nImprove the speed and quality of strategic decisions through reusable methods, shared insights, analytics, and AI-assisted research.\nMaintain a continuous cycle of discovery, validation, recommendation, and learning.\nMeasures of success\nCustomer insights translated into clear product and portfolio decisions.\nQuality and timeliness of strategic recommendations and investment cases.\nValidated opportunities incorporated into multi-year roadmaps.\nFaster progression from opportunity identification to evidence-based decisions.\nNew value pools supported by credible customer and commercial evidence.\nImproved alignment across product, platform, commercial, and partner priorities.\nClear handoffs from strategic exploration to product ownership and execution.\nDemonstrated business impact from adopted recommendations.\nQualifications\nRequired qualifications\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, science, computer science, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n7+ years of increasing managerial experience in product strategy, product management, laboratory automation, scientific software, informatics, or related technology markets.\nDemonstrated ability to translate customer insight and market evidence into product strategies, roadmap recommendations, and business cases.\nScientific and technical fluency across laboratory workflows, instruments, software, data, and automation.\nStrong analytical and commercial judgment, including assessment of market opportunities, business models, and investment tradeoffs.\nExperience leading complex cross-functional initiatives through influence.\nStrong written communication, executive presentation, and stakeholder facilitation skills.\nPreferred qualifications\nPhD, MBA, or equivalent advanced experience.\nExperience in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, chemical analysis, or regulated laboratory environments.\nA record of translating customer collaborations or emerging technologies into scalable products or business opportunities.\nExperience evaluating technology partnerships, platform ecosystems, or build-versus-buy decisions.\nFamiliarity with customer research, product analytics, scenario planning, and experimentation.\nCore competencies\nCustomer and scientific orientation: Grounds strategy in laboratory realities and meaningful outcomes.\nStrategic and systems thinking: Connects patterns across markets, workflows, technologies, and businesses.\nProduct and commercial judgment: Balances customer value, differentiation, feasibility, and economics.\nAnalytical rigor: Makes assumptions explicit and uses evidence to guide decisions.\nEnterprise influence: Creates alignment across functions without relying on reporting authority.\nLearning and execution: Converts ambiguity into practical recommendations and sustains follow-through.\nAdditional Details\nThis job has a full time weekly schedule. It includes the option to work remotely. Applications for this job will be accepted until at least November 18, 2026 or until the job is no longer posted.The full-time equivalent pay range for this position is $211,175.00 - $329,961.00/yr 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/locationsAgilent 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  or contact +1-262-754-5030. 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