Head of Product

Multiply Labs • San Francisco, CA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Multiply Labs is seeking a hands-on Head of Product to lead product strategy and the roadmap across its automated advanced biologics manufacturing portfolio. The role owns the end-to-end product lifecycle and works across engineering, biosciences, and commercial teams to turn customer needs into scalable systems. The Head of Product will build and mentor product and biosciences teams, guide strategic roadmaps with pharmaceutical partners, and help make life-saving therapies more accessible.

The position is based at Multiply Labs’ headquarters in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood. Some roles may require 5–10% domestic and international travel. The role includes occasional use of personal protective equipment during customer site visits and deployment walkthroughs. It follows a standard full-time schedule with occasional evening or weekend flexibility around critical customer deployments; employees may set their schedules in alignment with their manager and team.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of product management experience, including at least 3 years directly managing and scaling a team of Product Managers.
• Proven track record leading complex hardware-software products involving robotics and electromechanical systems.
• Demonstrated success taking complex technical products from concept through deployment and commercial scale.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills, and ability to work in a fast-paced, high-accountability startup environment.
• Hands-on proficiency with project and product management frameworks and tools such as JIRA, Asana, or SmartSheets.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in biotech, medical devices, automotive, aerospace, or another regulated development environment.
• Experience scaling a product organization through early commercialization at a high-growth, venture-backed company.
• Experience navigating joint development milestones, pilots, and acceptance criteria with customers and partners.
• Familiarity with advanced therapy manufacturing, including cell and gene therapies or antibodies, or with bioprocess development.
• Experience incorporating computer vision, machine learning, or AI capabilities into products.

Responsibilities

• Define, communicate, and execute the long-term product strategy and roadmap for automated advanced biologics manufacturing systems, aligning platform development with commercial milestones.
• Partner with the CEO and hardware, software, bioprocess, and quality leaders to establish a cohesive product vision, architecture, and product requirements.
• Hire, mentor, and scale high-performing product and biosciences teams.
• Oversee the Biosciences team in defining biological product requirements, conducting internal cell testing, and working with pharmaceutical customers to analyze pilot data and demonstrate process comparability.
• Make prioritization tradeoffs among custom customer requirements, platform standardization, and engineering improvements.
• Serve as the primary product partner to executive leadership and cross-functional teams at major pharmaceutical client accounts, translating customer goals and needs into product requirements.
• Collaborate with Business Development, Strategic Alliance Management, Supply Chain, and Engineering to ensure product readiness for customer deployments and platform launches.
• Drive customer discovery, market analysis, and user interviews across the biopharma industry to identify unmet clinical manufacturing needs and emerging trends.

Benefits

• Meaningful early-stage equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans with subsidies for child dependents.
• 401(k) with a 4% company match.
• Pre-tax commuter benefit for eligible transit and parking.
• Paid parental leave.
• Flexible paid time off.
• 12 paid holidays.
• Flexible scheduling; employees set their schedule in alignment with their manager and team.
• Catered team lunches, a stocked kitchen, and frequent team events at the San Francisco office.
• H-1B and Green Card sponsorship for exceptional talent.
• Referral bonuses.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director