Staff Product Manager

Eli Lilly and Company

. Own product direction for tools that scale Lilly’s expertise for early-stage biotech companies .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesLead💰 $180,000 - $275,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management with a focus on developing and launching software products for biotech and life sciences. Capable of leading cross-functional teams, conducting user research, and defining product strategy while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

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Product Management ExperienceSQL Data SkillsAI/ML FamiliarityExperience in Life SciencesB2B SaaS Product Development

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Hard Skills

Product DirectionDiscovery and PrototypingRoadmap DevelopmentSpecification WritingMetrics DefinitionLLM-Powered FeaturesCustomer InterviewsArchitecture EngagementShipping SoftwareData Governance

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationMentoringNegotiationSelf-SufficiencyOwnership Mindset

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree

Industry Keywords

BiotechPharmaHealth TechR&DRegulated Environments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own product direction for tools that scale Lilly’s expertise for early-stage biotech companies
Learn how biotech users work and identify workflow bottlenecks
Run discovery through interviews, prototypes, and working sessions
Prioritize problems and define the order of work
Produce buildable product direction from discovery
Own strategy, scope, roadmap, launch, and post-launch operations end to end
Write strategy, specifications, and analysis hands-on
Communicate decisions clearly to engineering, leadership, and end users
Define initial release scope and success metrics
Ensure product instrumentation supports measuring outcomes
Mentor product managers and product-adjacent peers
Partner with engineering and design on hiring and team standards
Establish discovery, specification, and decision-making practices
Negotiate scope and challenge estimates and priorities with engineering and design
Navigate enterprise infrastructure, security, privacy, and compliance requirements
Incorporate Lilly R&D expertise into the product
Represent the product with technical and scientific end users

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree
8+ years of product management experience
Track record of shipping software that end users rely on
Experience operating as a senior or staff product manager on a small team
Experience taking a product from zero to one
Ability to take a fuzzy problem from research to scope to shipped product
Experience conducting customer interviews and roadmap reviews
SQL or similar data skills sufficient to define a metric or size a market
Familiarity with AI/ML and model capabilities and limitations
Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered features, including reliability, evaluations, and context management
Ability to engage with engineers on architecture and tradeoffs
Experience working in small, undefined-roadmap environments
Self-sufficient and broad ownership mindset
Experience in life sciences, pharma, biotech, or health tech, especially building for scientists or R&D teams
Background building B2B SaaS or platform products
Experience shipping into regulated environments and familiarity with data governance and timelines

Benefits

Comp & perks

Company bonus depending, in part, on company and individual performance
Company-sponsored 401(k)
Pension
Vacation benefits
Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits
Flexible benefits, including healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts
Life insurance and death benefits
Time off and leave of absence benefits
Well-being benefits, including employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities