Product Manager

Caris Life Sciences•Irving, TX

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Caris Life Sciences is a global leader in precision oncology, utilizing advanced molecular science and AI to transform cancer care and improve patient lives. The company operates one of the world's largest precision-oncology platforms, handling hundreds of thousands of molecular cases annually. This role focuses on the clinical software products that support the lab's operations, from order intake to reporting, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness for patients and physicians. The Product Manager will own specific features and capability areas within these critical clinical products, working collaboratively with senior product leadership and engineering teams. The position offers a growth opportunity for product managers to develop towards end-to-end product ownership and contribute to the evolution of product management practices at Caris. The company is actively investing in AI to enhance product capabilities and create an AI-native working environment, automating workflows and improving efficiency. The role operates within a regulated environment, adhering to SOX financial controls and FDA regulatory requirements, emphasizing a deliberate and evidence-based approach to product development.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Health Informatics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
4+ years in product management, or equivalent product or program experience, including work on technical or platform-scoped products.
Experience writing structured product requirements (epics, user stories, acceptance criteria) that engineering teams built and shipped.
Experience defining or tracking adoption, utilization, or outcome measures and using them to inform product decisions.
A record of working across technical and non-technical stakeholders to reach clear, documented decisions.
Fluency with generative AI tools in product discovery, analysis, requirements, or documentation work.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in a relevant field, such as an MBA.
Experience in healthcare diagnostics, molecular pathology, clinical laboratory, or life sciences software.
Experience in environments governed by FDA, SOX, CLIA, or HIPAA requirements.
Ability to translate regulatory or compliance constraints into actionable product requirements.
Familiarity with agile delivery frameworks and associated product-management tooling.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with stakeholders at varying levels of technical and clinical fluency.

Responsibilities

Own discovery, definition, and delivery for assigned features and capability areas within a clinical software product, guided by the product's strategy and roadmap.
Run discovery with the ordering physicians, pathologists, geneticists, laboratory operations, and commercial teams who depend on the product; validate problems before proposing solutions.
Write product requirements engineering teams can act on: epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria clear enough to build from and complete enough for a regulated environment.
Sequence and groom the backlog for assigned areas, keeping it value-ordered and evidence-backed.
Scope releases, assemble the launch-readiness evidence, and bring it to the go/no-go decision alongside senior product, engineering, quality, and regulatory partners.
Track adoption and utilization after launch; propose iteration or retirement on the evidence.
Lead working sessions with clinical, operational, commercial, and technical stakeholders for assigned areas, making the trade-offs visible.
Use generative AI as daily leverage in discovery synthesis, analysis, requirements drafting, and product documentation.
Surface recurring manual steps in the workflows a product serves, and bring automation candidates to the roadmap conversation.