Senior Director or Vice President, Product

About Formation Bio Formation Bio is a tech and AI driven pharma company differentiated by radically more efficient drug development. Advancements in AI and drug discovery are creating more candidate drugs than the industry can progress because of the high cost and time of clinical trials. , has built technology platforms, processes, and capabilities to accelerate all aspects of drug development and clinical trials.

Formation Bio partners, acquires, or in-licenses drugs from pharma companies, research organizations, and biotechs to develop programs past clinical proof of concept and beyond, ultimately helping to bring new medicines to patients. The company is backed by investors across pharma and tech, including a16z, Sequoia, Sanofi, Thrive Capital, John Doerr, Spark Capital, SV Angel Growth, and others. You can read more at the following links: Our Vision for AI in Pharma Our Current Drug Portfolio Our Technology Platform At Formation Bio, our values are the driving force behind our mission to revolutionize the pharma industry.

Every team and individual at the company shares these same values, and every team and individual plays a key part in our mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently. About the Position Formation Bio is hiring Product Leads to own major problem domains across our drug development platform - for example, how we evaluate and acquire drug assets, how we design and run clinical trials, or how we build regulatory submissions. You will report to the CTO.

This is a product leadership role, but not a traditional one. You won't be writing specs for engineers to build. You'll own a business domain: set the strategy, define what to build, lead a cross-functional team through delivery, and be measured on whether the work actually changes outcomes for the drug programs and business functions you serve.

Your team will include engineers, data scientists, and product managers (ranging from senior ICs to managers). You will be embedded with our clinical, translational, regulatory, and business development leaders - understanding their problems deeply enough to identify where technology can make a material difference. That means learning what makes a drug asset attractive, what drives a trial design decision, what the FDA cares about, and where the real time and cost sinks are.

You should be able to drive value in a clinical review meeting in the same way you drive value in a sprint planning session. We are not building consumer software. We are building tools, models, and systems that make specific drug development decisions faster and better - prediction models that assess drug candidate viability, AI-driven workflows that compress diligence timelines, and platforms that let non-engineers build their own analytical tools.

You will own a slice of that work and be accountable for its impact.

Responsibilities

, 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.