Lead Product Manager — South San Francisco, CA

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About Qtxh3A

yAn7tZ vEB5z5Wt6 accelerates breakthroughs in CNS disease by connecting data to the decisions that move the field. We're building the data intelligence layer for CNS research, with agentic AI workflows developed alongside world-leading experts in privacy and security, so researchers go from requesting data to analyzing it in days, not months. The MVP is live and expansion is underway.

We're a small, senior team backed by a mission-driven funder. Everyone carries a full function, and this role is scoped the same way.

The role

You'll be rrZtbE'P lead product manager, a hands-on builder rather than a pure strategist. The raw material of a product function already exists: dozens of researcher interviews, a working intake pipeline, documented user journeys, and a written strategy. Your job is to pull it together and run it with judgment.

The role has two priorities, in this order:

• Bring product fundamentals to the team. Prioritization, clear requirements, a visible backlog, and a lifecycle the team uses. The platform team needs this first.

• Be a strategic partner to the CEO. Turn research and evidence into product direction, and help shape where Qtxh3A goes next.

What you'll do

• Run the product development lifecycle. Own the framework the team uses to scope, chunk, and ship work, in partnership with the Head of Platform and the Data Governance & Compliance lead. Keep it light enough that people use it.

• Prioritize the backlog. Maintain a now / next / later view tied to OKRs, refreshed on a published cadence.

• Own the voice of the customer. Synthesize the 50+ existing researcher interviews, run new ones to fill gaps, and keep personas current and shared.

• Own user input end to end. Every request is visibly received, decided, and answered.

• Lead user research. Design and run research with team members in the room, and direct UX research or design consultants when needed.

• Prioritize tooling and features against the dataset pipeline. The next 5 to 10 datasets are already set. Rank the features, analysis tooling, and workflows that let researchers get the most from them, weighing user value, feasibility, and effort with the Head of Platform and using the science team's value assessments as inputs. Partner with Data Governance & Compliance where contracts, consent, or technical constraints shape what is buildable, and recommend what comes next with reasoning.

• Communicate in every mode. Written read-outs, live walkthroughs, and presentations to leadership, with a clear line from strategy to backlog.

What this role is not

• Not platform delivery. Architecture, ingestion engineering, and implementing governance and compliance belong to the Head of Platform.

• Not unilateral build decisions. You bring evidence and ranked recommendations; the leadership team decides together.

• Not a people-management role, yet. You'll direct consultants and work across functions, but there is no product team under you today.

What we're looking for

Required

• 12 years of product management experience (can be less with a Masters or PhD in related field) with shipped artifacts to show: syntheses, ranked backlogs, personas, requirements.

• Experience setting up product processes on a team that didn't have one, ideally at a startup or early-stage team.

• Data fluency to weigh ingestion and usability tradeoffs credibly with engineers.

• Strong oral and written communication and ability to influence without authority in a collaborative organization.

• Fluent with AI tools, and clear that they produce drafts, not decisions.

• Low ego, high cadence, comfortable working in the team's existing tools.

Preferred

• Experience with research data platforms, scientific software, or life sciences products.

• Credibility with researchers working with clinical, imaging, -omics, or longitudinal data; neuroscience depth is a strong plus.

Compensation and logistics

• Compensation: Base Salary Range $215K - $290K; equity and benefits discussed during the process

• Location: San Francisco Bay Area, with two days per week in person onsite in South San Francisco

• Eligibility: You must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Please indicate whether you will now or in the future require visa sponsorship.

• Background check: Offers are contingent upon clearing a criminal background check.

• Start date: As soon as possible following offer acceptance.

• How to apply: Apply through the LinkedIn posting. Applications are routed to ••••••••.