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Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.\nWe have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.\nWe have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform - best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.\nScientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.\nShaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics \nOur global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.\nYou’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.\nWe are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together. \nWhat do we need \nWe are looking for a Program Manager to lead our release management and broader program delivery for the Dotmatics ELN Platform. This is a high-impact role that combines hands-on release execution with strategic program oversight, sitting at the intersection of planning, delivery, and cross-functional alignment. You will have the opportunity to have real influence over how program and release management operate across the business, gaining broad visibility across the organization, working with and presenting to stakeholders from engineering teams through to executive leadership, and supporting notable impact. \nYou will bring the operational precision of a release manager alongside the governance and rigor of a program manager, ensuring that releases are delivered with quality and consistency and that the wider program of work is well-planned with dependencies clearly visible. You will work closely with Engineering, Product Management, Quality Assurance, Customer Operations, Services, Marketing, and Sales, operating as a trusted collaborative and strategic partner with a clear, decisive voice across all stages of delivery. \nIn this role you will get to \nRelease Management \nOwn the end-to-end release management process. Refine, lead, and continuously improve practices that deliver high-quality, timely releases. Champion a release culture aligned to business and customer objectives, and actively replace practices that do not serve those goals \nLead a core group of representatives from Product Management, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Customer Operations through the release process from planning to external release, ensuring capacity and risk are part of the equation \nTrack, monitor, and drive execution of release plans with pace and accountability. Escalate and hold others accountable when needed\nDefine and maintain a clear release calendar. Provide timely updates on release readiness, risk, and post-release adoption metrics across all relevant audiences \nLead coordination of in-flight work across Jira (our system of record). Identify and mitigate release risk, flagging unrealistic plans early and ensuring alignment with Product Management and Services to support escalations and customer-specific builds \nAlign release artifacts across Product, Engineering, Marketing (including tier 1 and tier 2 launches), Sales (enablement), and Services (training) \nLead cross-functional release meetings and asynchronous processes as the definitive voice driving the holistic release process forward \nProgram Management \nLead program-level planning and governance across the ELN Platform. Manage dependencies, milestones, and delivery roadmaps across multiple concurrent workstreams \nTranslate company and customer objectives into a clear execution strategy. Ensure teams understand priorities and how their work connects to broader business goals \nIdentify, track, and mitigate program-level risks and issues early. Escalate where needed and hold stakeholders accountable for resolution \nProvide regular, audience-appropriate reporting to stakeholders from engineering teams through to executive leadership. Cover progress, risk, and strategic alignment \nSupport the rollout of Solution Area Initiatives. Play an active role in embedding this new operational model across the company as it is defined and scaled \nBuild and maintain strong relationships across functions. Practice influence without authority and drive alignment across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders \nWays of Working \nChampion agile delivery across the release and process. Align with and actively influence agile methodology to support effective product and engineering execution \nEnable and coach product and engineering teams. Listen to day-to-day challenges and incorporate their input into how the teams plan and deliver \nApply a growth mindset. Embrace operational improvements and lead collaborative processes where team members feel heard and empowered \nWe are looking for people who have 10 + years of experience in program management and/or enterprise SaaS product release management. Agile SCRUM, Product Owner, SCRUM Master, or PMP certification is strongly preferred. \nThe keys skills we are looking for \nProven track record of leading and executing release and program management strategies through agile leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and proactive follow-through \nStrong program governance skills, including milestone planning, dependency management, risk tracking, and executive-level reporting \nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, clear and consistent across all audiences and deliverables, from engineers to executive stakeholders \nAbility to bring structure and calm to a fast-paced environment with competing priorities across multiple workstreams \nStrong stakeholder management and influencing skills across functions and seniority levels, internally and externally \nAdvanced Jira and Confluence skills, including creating and maintaining custom reports, dashboards, and program views \nProficiency in diagramming and planning tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or Miro \nExperience planning and executing long-term, multi-phase programs spanning development, configuration, and deployment \nOpenness to embracing how AI can improve you in your role. We are all learning how AI can help us be more efficient and collaborative, creating space for us to grow. We use Claude \nNice to have: \nBackground or relevant work experience in life sciences or scientific software \nPeople management or mentorship experience\nTotal Rewards \nDotmatics utilises a national market-based approach to base pay benchmarking and pay band development. The candidate's final starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, job specific qualifications & location. In addition to base salary, Dotmatics has implemented a total rewards strategy, which is the combination of compensation, benefits and recognition. \nCertain positions are also eligible for variable pay; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.\nOther Total Rewards Offered\nPrivate Medical \nWellness Benefits (Mental Health Apps and Fitness Perks) \nCompany-paid Life cover\nEAP (Employee Assistance Program) \nPension/Retirement Plan \nThis is the range that we, in good faith, believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.\nBase Pay Range\n£66,104—£89,435 GBP\nResearch shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply - we’d love to hear from you.\nBy submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information. \nDotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. 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