# Vice President, Product

**Company:** [Formation Bio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/formation-bio)
**Location:** New York, NY, Boston, MA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $374k – $467k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Product Strategy, AI/ML, LLMs, Agentic Systems, Cross-Functional Leadership, Data Science, Regulatory Compliance, Clinical Trial Design, Drug Development, Technical Fluency
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> Lead product strategy and AI-driven solutions for major drug development domains like clinical trials and regulatory submissions. Own outcomes for cross-functional teams of engineers, data scientists, and PMs while embedding with clinical and regulatory leaders.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy for a defined problem domain (e.g., drug candidate evaluation, clinical trial execution, regulatory intelligence). Define what to build, what to deprioritize, and how to measure success.
- Drive adoption of AI across your domain. We use LLMs, agentic workflows, and autonomous systems extensively. You should be pushing what's possible, not waiting for the technology teams to propose it.
- Design systems that domain experts across the company can build on directly. Non-engineers are already creating their own technology - your solutions should accelerate that, not bottleneck it.
- Lead a cross-functional team spanning engineering, data science, and product. Set the roadmap and make resourcing trade-offs based on business impact.
- Work directly with our core functional teams as a strategic tech partner. Translate their problems into technology solutions - not by taking feature requests, but by understanding the domain well enough to see opportunities they may not.
- Guide the data science and engineering approach within your domain, including real-world evidence analysis, prediction pipelines, clinical strategies, and dataset evaluation. You need enough technical judgment to know when an approach is sound and when to push back.
- Maintain awareness of regulatory constraints. You don't need to be a regulatory expert, but you need to build products that work within GxP requirements and clinical data governance standards.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in tech delivery with progressively broader scope, including at least one role where you led product or technology strategy and were held accountable for business outcomes.
- Life sciences experience: You've built products in biotech, pharma, or a related industry. You understand the drug development lifecycle well enough to have informed opinions about where technology does and doesn't help. You've worked in an environment shaped by regulatory constraints and scientific uncertainty.
- Strategic product thinker: You define product direction based on business outcomes, not feature velocity. You've owned a product area where success was measured in terms the business cared about - time saved, decisions improved, cost reduced - not just user engagement or ship rate.
- AI fluency: You can evaluate AI/ML approaches, make build-vs-buy decisions on AI capabilities, and push your team to use AI where it creates real leverage. You've deployed or led the deployment of LLM-based or agentic systems in a professional context.
- Technical fluency: You can engage deeply with engineers and data scientists on approach, architecture, and trade-offs. You can evaluate whether an ML model is solving the right problem, whether a data pipeline is reliable enough, and whether an engineering approach will scale.
- Cross-functional leadership: You've led teams that included engineers, data scientists, and product managers. You know how to hire, develop, and hold people to high standards.
- Business fluency: You can discuss clinical trial design, asset valuation, regulatory strategy, and competitive dynamics with senior leaders without retreating to technical jargon. You've been in rooms where the conversation was about business decisions, not product decisions, and you contributed.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and autonomy: You are highly adaptable and curious. You've worked in early-stage companies, on transformation efforts or new initiatives where the scope was unclear and the playbook didn't exist. That energizes you rather than stalls you.
- Mission-driven: You care about getting medicines to patients faster. That's what this company exists to do, and it matters to you.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Total Compensation Range: $374,000 - $467,000
- In addition to base salary, we offer equity, comprehensive benefits, and generous perks.

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