Founding Product Manager

Altro Health•New York, NY

9h•$170,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Altro is building a platform that enables wellness providers to offer clinical services they currently can't provide on their own, such as blood testing, prescriptions, and peptides, supervised by a clinical team. The company is seed-stage, backed by top venture capital firms, and experiencing rapid growth. This role offers a unique opportunity to join at the ground floor, work directly with the founders, and accelerate career growth within a fast-paced startup environment. The company is positioned to capitalize on significant trends in healthtech, including FDA peptide approval, the mainstreaming of GLP-1s, the longevity movement, and AI-personalized protocols.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience.
Founding PM or very-early-PM experience at a fast-moving startup (not big tech).
Marketplace or e-commerce background, with experience building products for two-sided models, transaction flows, supply-and-demand dynamics, or seller/buyer experiences.
High EQ and business intuition; ability to accurately read customers, teammates, and market dynamics.
AI-native: daily use of AI tools, experimentation with major models, understanding of their capabilities and limitations, and viewing AI as a compounding leverage.
Technical depth: CS degree, prior engineering experience, or equivalent; ability to read code, understand system design, and accurately scope engineering work.
Comfortable in technical conversations, including debating architecture trade-offs and assessing scope.
Execution-focused mindset, energized by shipping products.
Entrepreneurial drive: ability to spot opportunities, scope solutions, and drive completion independently.
Fast and pragmatic approach: comfortable making decisions with imperfect information, shipping MVPs, and iterating.
Strong communication skills: ability to translate clearly between engineering, design, and business stakeholders.
Comfortable with ambiguity and evolving priorities in an early-stage environment.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare or wellness industry experience is not required, but would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

Drive product execution against the founder-set roadmap, ensuring timely and quality delivery.
Own the two-sided experience, balancing the needs of wellness partners and end consumers, and making trade-off decisions when conflicts arise.
Scope projects with technical depth, understanding architecture, dependencies, and engineering trade-offs.
Write PRDs, user stories, and technical specs, leveraging AI to accelerate drafting, edge-case analysis, and review.
Utilize AI in daily workflows for research, customer call synthesis, PRD drafting, competitive analysis, mockups, data exploration, customer demos, and other productivity enhancements.
Partner with the CTO on technical decisions, including scope, architecture, and feasibility.
Regularly engage with customers (wellness operators, end consumers, clinicians) to gather insights and inform product decisions.
Run sprints, including planning, standups, and retrospectives, to maintain team momentum.
Collaborate with the design team on UX and product flow.
Coordinate with stakeholders across clinical operations, sales, and partnerships to align product priorities with business needs.
Define and track product metrics to measure performance and success.