Product Manager, App Foundations (Biotechnology)

TL;DR

Product Manager, App Foundations (Biotechnology): Stewarding foundational document and spreadsheet-like table surfaces for scientific data within hirify.global's R&D Cloud, with an accent on improving engineering confidence, optimizing multiplier effects, and transforming tightly coupled implementations to API-driven building blocks. Focus on enabling strategic investments in new scientific modalities, automation, and AI by enhancing the platform's core capabilities.

Location: Flexible hybrid work arrangement in San Francisco, CA, requiring 3 days per week on-site (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday).

Salary: $212,000–$287,000

Company

hirify.global provides an R&D Cloud platform to accelerate breakthrough product development in biotechnology.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap and execution for document and table-based data input surfaces, emphasizing safety and leverage.
• Define and improve the behavior of these surface areas, including formulas, computed fields, lookups, and dependency graphs.
• Improve developer productivity by making core surfaces lower risk to evolve via clear contracts, better testability, and reduced coupling.
• Expand automation and AI-driven workflows by improving API-enabled capabilities.
• Partner with Product Design to drive continuous improvements to the scientist experience through user research and iterative refinement.
• Collaborate with scientists, internal product teams, and engineers to deeply understand scientific table and documentation needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience, strong preference for B2B SaaS with ownership of platform surfaces, editors, APIs, or data-heavy systems.
• Degree in a life sciences or bioengineering field (e.g., Bioengineering, Biology, Biochemistry, Computational Biology, or Chemistry), or equivalent hands-on experience working with experimental data and scientific documentation.
• Experience supporting scientific or other high-stakes data use cases, where data integrity is paramount.
• Strong understanding of tables as systems, including formulas, references, and edge cases, especially in scientific or analytical contexts.
• Ability to listen deeply, synthesize competing needs, and communicate tradeoffs effectively.
• Rigor in prioritization, with comfort saying no in service of leverage.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration.
• Competitive total rewards package including a broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Fertility healthcare, family-forming benefits, and four months of fully paid parental leave.
• 401(k) + Employer Match and commuter benefits for in-office employees.
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, and a monthly wellness stipend.
• Learning and development stipend, generous and flexible vacation, and company-wide Winter holiday shutdown.
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries.