Agilent Technologies

AVP, Product Strategy - Autonomous Laboratories

Agilent Technologies  •  $193k - $301k/yr  •  Toronto, CA (Remote)  •  8 hours ago
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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

This job has a full time weekly schedule. It includes the option to work remotely.

The full-time equivalent pay range for this position is $192,864.00 - $301,350.00/yr CAD in Canada, or $236,832.00 - $370,050.00/yr USD in the US, 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 opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.

Travel Required:

25% of the Time

Shift:

Day

Duration:

No End Date

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Administration

Agilent Technologies

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent customers are finding new ways to treat cancer, ensure food, water, air, and medicine quality and safety, discover new drug treatments, research infectious diseases, and create alternative energy solutions for a greener planet. From start to finish, we have them covered with our vast product solutions and services portfolio.

Around the world, Agilent’s people bring innovations, technologies, and services to the forefront of science. Our teams design and manufacture a wide array of advanced analytical, research, and diagnostic solutions and tools for use inside and outside laboratories.

Additionally, the unique expertise of Agilent’s CrossLab and technical teams provides valuable insight and support to our customers, helping them fully optimize their laboratories and resources to better focus on what's important: bringing great science to life.

In fiscal 2022, Agilent Technologies generated revenue of (US) $6.85 billion.

Industry
Biotech & Life Sciences
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Santa Clara, CA
Year Founded
1999
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