Product Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About Collate

 

Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.

 

Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders.

 

We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.

 

 

About the Role

Collate is the first of its kind for what we're building — no incumbent doing this today, and no established workflow to copy. That's the job: continue to define the roadmap for an AI category that doesn't exist yet, then build it.

 

You'll co-own the product surface end to end that lets the world's most regulated companies trust us with their most sensitive documents. You'll sit at the intersection of engineering and go-to-market, working directly with Surbhi (CEO) to turn what customers need into a roadmap the team can actually ship. 

 

This is a rare seat: you're not maintaining an AI category, you're creating a new one. It's a role for someone who wants outsized ownership over how an early-stage company becomes the category leader without slowing down.

 

We are 5 days a week onsite in San Francisco.

What You'll Do

• Define and drive the AI product strategy for Collate's capabilities for organizations operating under real regulatory pressure

• Run point on the technical requirements and translate them into a roadmap engineering can build against

• Work directly with regulatory and clinical teams at customer organizations to understand their workflows and compliance requirements at a granular level

• Partner daily with engineering and design to scope, prioritize, and ship — this is a hands-on, in-the-weeds role

• Define the metrics that matter for enterprise adoption, retention, and expansion, and use them to drive prioritization

• Be the connective tissue between GTM, Sales, and Customer Success so the roadmap reflects what's actually closing and renewing deals

• Represent the customer's voice in every cross-functional room you're in

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of product management experience with a track record of shipping software

• A builder's instinct — you'd rather be in the weeds with engineering than reviewing a roadmap deck

• High agency and comfort with ambiguity; you can walk into a fast-moving, lightly-processed environment and bring structure without slowing anyone down

• Genuine comfort working directly with founders and designers on 0-to-1 problems — you're energized by ambiguity, not looking for it to be resolved before you start and your communication style is clear and direct. 

• Strong plus: experience in life sciences, healthtech, or another regulated industry and real familiarity with regulatory, clinical, or pharma workflows

Why Join Collate?

• Impact: Build systems and experiences that touch real patients and providers, improving healthcare outcomes.

• Ownership: Shape both our product experience and our engineering culture from the start.

• Learning: Collaborate with a uniquely interdisciplinary team—AI researchers, healthcare leaders, and experienced startup builders.

• Upside: Join a company early enough to have meaningful equity and career-defining impact

The base salary range for this role is depending on experience and level (Tier 1, San Francisco)

PM: $181-225K; Senior PM: $210-253K; Staff PM: $237-295K

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.