The Senior Product Manager owns the discovery, definition, delivery, and continuous improvement of products across Inception Fertility ’s portfolio, including Prelude Connect, Practice Edge, and Prelude Cryopreservation.
Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, the Senior Product Manager owns resource allocation across the portfolio, directing team capacity toward the most valuable work. The role translates customer evidence, clinical context, and data capability into well-scoped requirements that engineering, design, and data analytics teams can build against with confidence. It demands fluency in both the big-picture strategy and the on-the-ground detail of shipping software in a regulated healthcare environment.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Manage, coach, and develop direct reports, setting clear goals, giving regular feedback, and supporting their growth.
- Own resource allocation across the portfolio, balancing team capacity against priorities and reprioritizing as needs shift.
- Provide prioritization guidance to engineering so teams stay focused on the work that matters most.
- Partner with the Chief Product Officer on product strategy, roadmap trade-offs, and executive stakeholder communication, securing buy-in for key decisions.
- Maintain a continuous voice-of-the-customer feedback loop, synthesizing input from the support team, patients, and clinical operations into prioritized, actionable product insight.
- Cultivate relationships with patients and clinical team members willing to validate concepts and prioritize features before significant development investment is made.
- Translate customer and market insight into clear, well-scoped functional and non-functional requirements, including privacy, security, and accessibility requirements.
- Author product requirements documents, user stories, and acceptance criteria that reflect real user needs, clinical workflow, and business goals.
- Contribute to build-versus-buy analysis for new capabilities, grounding recommendations in market landscape, technical feasibility, security posture, and strategic fit.
- Own and prioritize the product backlog for assigned areas in close partnership with engineering.
- Use AI tools to compress the path from idea to shipped feature, from drafting requirements and synthesizing research to standing up working prototypes.
- Shape and maintain product roadmaps that are grounded in customer evidence, aligned to Inception’s strategic priorities, and realistic given engineering capacity and timeline.
- Collaborate across clinical operations, data analytics, engineering, helpdesk, and revenue cycle, ensuring product decisions reflect all relevant perspectives and that progress is communicated clearly.
- Support development of training materials, including product documentation, feature narratives, and client-facing communications, as new