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Senior Marketing Manager, Protein Sequencing Applications

San Diego, CA

The Sr Marketing Manager, Protein Sequencing Applications will play a pivotal role in shaping how Quantum-Si identifies, prioritizes, and wins in high-value application spaces. We are seeking a strategic, hands-on marketer who understands proteomics and sequencing workflows and can translate market needs into clear application requirements for R&D, while also turning product capabilities into compelling positioning, messaging, and sales tools that accelerate adoption. The ideal candidate will thrive in a scrappy startup environment, think creatively, operate with urgency, and partner across commercial and technical teams to deliver measurable business results.

 

As part of our team, your core responsibilities will be:

 

  • Application & Portfolio Strategy: Own the application marketing strategy for Quantum-Si's protein sequencing portfolio, identifying target segments, workflows, and use cases that can drive adoption, utilization, and long-term growth.
  • Voice of Customer & Market Insight: Build and maintain a deep understanding of customer needs, workflow pain points, market trends, and competitive dynamics across academic, biopharma, translational, and other priority segments.
  • Product Requirements Translation: Translate customer insight, application needs, and workflow requirements into clear, prioritized inputs for R&D. Partner on tradeoff decisions to ensure the roadmap aligns to the highest-value business opportunities.
  • Positioning & Messaging: Develop differentiated positioning, value propositions, and messaging frameworks that translate product attributes into compelling sales messages and application stories positioned to win.
  • Go-to-Market Execution: Lead go-to-market planning for new applications, workflows, and capabilities, coordinating across marketing, sales, scientific affairs, and field applications to drive successful launches.
  • Content & Sales Enablement: Create high-impact commercial content, including presentations, web copy, battlecards, case studies, white papers, and objection-handling tools, and equip Sales and Field Applications teams with the training and materials needed to communicate value consistently.
  • Customer & Ecosystem Engagement: Engage directly with customers, key opinion leaders, early adopters, and partners through meetings, conferences, advisory boards, and field interactions to refine application strategy and uncover new growth opportunities.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as a central point of coordination across R&D, application development, sales, operations, and marketing. Bring an ownership mindset, willingness to roll up your sleeves, and the agility to deliver results in a fast-moving startup environment.

 

Qualifications

Baseline skills/experiences/attributes:

  • Bachelor's degree in life sciences, marketing, business, or a related field required; MBA, MS, or PhD a plus.
  • 8+ years of product marketing, product management, strategic marketing, or related experience in life sciences, proteomics, genomics, sequencing, or molecular biology markets.
  • Direct experience in proteomics applications is preferred; experience in protein sequencing or adjacent sequencing applications is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated success translating customer insights, workflow needs, and market dynamics into product requirements, application strategy, and commercial action.
  • Experience marketing complex technical products, ideally spanning instruments, consumables, software, and integrated workflow solutions.
  • Strong understanding of proteomics, sequencing, and molecular biology workflows, customer segments, and application use cases.
  • Proven ability to develop positioning, messaging, and commercial content that resonate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience supporting new product introductions and commercialization in a fast-moving environment.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize market, competitive, and business performance data into clear recommendations.
  • Ability to own long-term strategy while driving executional detail and delivering against dynamic timelines.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and build credibility across functions and levels.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations and sales enablement/training.
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% including occasional weekends and international travel.

 

 

Ideally, you also have these skills/experiences/attributes:

  • Experience in startup or high-growth environments, with a self-starter mindset and willingness to think outside the box and roll up sleeves to get results.
  • Experience with hardware or software product development, customer-facing commercial roles, and/or close partnership with R&D teams to shape application roadmaps.

 

The estimated base salary range for this role based in the United States of America is: $ 175,000 - $195,000. Compensation decisions are dependent on several factors including, but not limited to, level of the position, an individual’s skills, knowledge and abilities, location where the role is to be performed, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Additionally, all full-time employees are eligible for our discretionary bonus program and equity as part of the compensation package.

 

For this role, we provide visa assistance for qualified candidates.

 

Quantum-Si does not accept agency resumes.

 

Quantum-Si is an E-Verify and equal opportunity employer regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or Veteran status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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