Senior Product Manager, Innovation Lab

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +20 more locations.

📋 Description

• Become a part of Coforma’s Innovation Lab, reporting directly to the Head of Innovation.

• Manage multiple products concurrently during various stages including discovery, concept validation, first paying customer, and scaling.

• Establish product strategy, covering aspects such as the problem statement, target customer, value proposition, business model, market size, segments, competitors, pricing, and purchasing behavior.

• Conduct customer interviews, pilots, prototypes, and experiments to validate hypotheses and achieve product-market fit.

• Formulate evidence-based recommendations regarding scaling, pivoting, or discontinuing products.

• Create and uphold outcome-oriented roadmaps.

• Work in close collaboration with engineers and designers to prototype, iterate, and launch products.

• Make informed technical trade-offs while ensuring availability, security, scalability, and performance.

• Manage pricing, packaging, product launches, early customer acquisition, and partnerships with marketing, sales, and leadership teams.

• Develop business cases, present to internal sponsors and venture capital investors, and seek funding opportunities.

• Define and track product metrics, including activation, retention, conversion, and revenue.

• Leverage AI-assisted coding and prototyping tools to enhance research, experimentation, and product development.

• Promote an inclusive environment where team members feel empowered, valued, and a sense of belonging.

• Mentor colleagues on product practices and disseminate knowledge across Coforma.

• Occasionally prepare presentations and proposals for federal agencies as appropriate.

• In the first 30 days, familiarize yourself with the portfolio, engage with stakeholders and customers, analyze markets and metrics, set up tools, and deliver an initial assessment of the portfolio.

• In the first 60 days, suggest product strategies, conduct experiments, build outcome-oriented roadmaps, define metrics, collaborate on prototypes with design and engineering, initiate market analysis, and establish review schedules.

• In the first 90 days, provide recommendations regarding scaling, pivoting, or discontinuing products, take products to market, collaborate on investment cases, support federal opportunities, share insights, and take full responsibility for outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 7 years of professional experience in Product Management.

• Significant experience with early-stage, 0-to-1 products or new ventures.

• Proven track record of bringing products from conception to market, validating demand, securing early customers, and establishing product-market fit.

• Strong capabilities in product strategy, including market analysis, positioning, pricing, and business-model development.

• Ability to effectively communicate product vision and rationale to executives, customers, engineers, internal sponsors, and venture capital investors.

• Experience in conducting customer research and transforming insights into requirements and experiments.

• Proven experience in taking products from concept to launch, creating prototypes, and collaborating directly with engineers.

• Ability to manage multiple products at various stages and prioritize effectively.

• Previous experience in a client-facing consulting, startup, or venture-building role.

• Must be a full-time resident of the contiguous United States.

• Must possess legal authorization to work in the United States now and in the future without requiring sponsorship.

• Must successfully pass any applicable background and/or security checks.

• Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools is strongly preferred.

• Experience in launching and scaling commercial software products is preferred.

• Experience in a rapidly growing small company, startup, or venture studio is preferred.

• Familiarity with B2B or B2B2C markets, such as health, fintech, civic tech, or regulated sectors is preferred.

• Experience in building or pitching products for federal agencies is preferred.

• Understanding of data privacy and security practices, including health IT, is preferred.

• Knowledge of accessibility requirements is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Strong, reliable internet prioritized and maintained for remote work.

• Flexibility for travel related to assigned in-person meetings, workshops, and training sessions with prior notice.

• Opportunities for growth and advancement.

• Remote work arrangement.