Product Manager, CRO

Prendio - BioProcure

2d•$130,000 - $145,000•Remote

About The Position

Prendio is seeking a Product Manager to own the CRO product strategy. This is a build role where you will be responsible for discovery, defining the product, and creating the strategy and roadmap. The role involves understanding the biotech research partner ecosystem, identifying friction points, and validating opportunities with commercial value. You will work closely with business leadership, product development, engineering, sales, and client-facing teams to translate strategy into executable products. The position offers significant growth potential, with paths leading to senior or principal ownership or leading the segment as its own. Success in this role means establishing a clear product strategy, testing opportunity areas, defining valuable products, and creating a phased roadmap that leads to meaningful revenue and business value. The first 90 days will focus on internal team integration, mapping the CRO journey, conducting initial discovery, pressure-testing assumptions, building relationships with CRO business leadership, and delivering an initial strategy point of view with a recommended first phase.

Requirements

5+ years in product management, with ownership of what gets built and why
Meaningful knowledge of the CRO ecosystem and how it actually works — this one is not negotiable
Real zero-to-one experience. You have defined a product space that was not already defined, not just run a roadmap someone handed you
Strong discovery instincts. You know how to validate or invalidate a hypothesis and you are willing to do the second one
Able to connect a customer problem to a commercial model and defend the prioritization that follows
Comfortable in ambiguity, and energized rather than unsettled by a space that is still being defined
Strong cross-functional communicator who can carry a strategy across product, engineering, data, and commercial teams

Nice To Haves

Product experience at a company serving CROs, or products built specifically for the CRO market
Time spent inside a CRO, or selling products and services into CROs
Biotech, life sciences, or supplier and vendor-side experience
Scientific background with relevant exposure to contract research
Marketplace, two-sided platform, procurement, or sourcing product experience
SaaS or platform experience in a regulated or complex environment

Responsibilities

Own the CRO product strategy
Form the product strategy for the CRO and supplier side of the business, and build a coherent thread through the ideas and early work that already exist.
Define where we should play in this market, and be able to tell that story clearly to customers, partners, and internal leadership.
Do the discovery
Get in front of CROs, suppliers, and biotech customers. Understand how the space actually works, where the friction is, and what each side genuinely values.
Work closely with the internal teams already engaged in this space and build on what the company knows rather than starting from scratch.
Validate what is real, and invalidate what is not
Test the opportunity areas across the CRO journey and determine which of them have real customer and commercial value.
Say plainly when something does not hold up. Ruling out a hypothesis early is a win here, not a failure.
Connect problems to commercial value
Identify where durable commercial value exists across the journey, and what a business model around it looks like.
Build a value narrative that holds up on both sides of the market, for the biotech and for the partner on the other end of the work.
Build and phase the roadmap
Prioritize where we have the best chance to win, and sequence the work into a phased roadmap rather than building everything at once.
Make the trade-offs explicit so the rest of the company understands what we are doing first and why.
Partner with the business line
Work hand in hand with our CRO business leadership. You own the product; they own the commercial and domain side. The two roles are designed to move together.
Keep leadership current on what discovery is turning up, including the findings that change the plan.
Work across the company
Partner with product development, data, engineering, sales, and client-facing teams to turn strategy into something that ships.
Connect this work to the adjacent capabilities already in the platform.
Turn strategy into product
Translate discovery and strategy into defined, executable products and commercialization opportunities.
Stay involved through delivery. This is not a strategy role that hands off a deck.