Cheiron
Product Manager, Technical (Los Altos)
Los Altos · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 3–6 years in product management or technical program management at the individual-contributor level.
About the job
Turns product concepts into engineering-ready specifications for Cheiron’s AI-powered CMC regulatory product, coordinating with engineering, product, and life sciences teams.
What you'll do
- Break product briefs into components, define boundaries and scope, and write feature stories with acceptance criteria, edge cases, and state transitions.
- Review data models and API contracts against existing architecture, and resolve specification ambiguity with engineering and life sciences teams.
- Define correctness for AI-driven features and own the quality of shipped features used in pharmaceutical regulatory decisions.
What they ask for
- 3–6 years in product management or technical program management at the individual-contributor level.
- Experience writing build-ready technical specifications that engineering teams implemented directly.
- Experience shipping products at a startup or mid-size company.
- Ability to read a codebase, reason about system architecture, and use AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience building AI-native products or defining evaluation frameworks for AI/ML features.
- Experience in complex domains or document-heavy, data-quality-heavy products.
Tools
Claude Code, Cursor, LLM integrations, structured extraction, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, guardrail systems, knowledge graphs
AI focus
Defines correctness for AI-driven document extraction, regulatory classification, and compliance state derivation; AI product-building and evaluation experience is a plus.
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