Founding Product Manager

About Argon

At Argon, we’re on a mission to transform how life-changing therapies are brought to patients. We’re building the AI operating-system for the biopharma companies of the future where humans and AIs work alongside one another to handle complex research, writing, and coordination workflows.

We’re honored to enable the next generation of scientists and pharma companies to bring life saving therapies to market faster and more efficiently.

This role is right for you if you’re excited by the cutting edge product & design challenges that modern AI systems have surfaced. AI systems of the future will look and feel inherently different than previous software systems, and this role will shape AI in Life Sciences.

We value kindness, intensity, direct communication, intellectual honesty, and grit. Join us if you want to be productive, ship, and help build Argon AI.

We are an in-person company with offices in NYC. For non-NYC residents, we are happy to help cover moving and other related expenses.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for a talented Product & Design Lead. This role will inherently require you to wear both design and product hats. You’ll go deep on understanding our users, their workflows, and pain points and work to translate your insights into product designs.

You’ll work closely with the CEO and Engineering team to formulate product strategy and execution. You’ll work closely with external designers to produce high-fidelity Figma designs and work hands-on with engineers to bring your designs to life.

Your ultimate goal will be to push for clarity, consistency, and quality in every corner of the product. Your taste and ideas will contribute largely to Argon’s next phase of growth.

1. Lead product feedback sessions with our current customers and users. Document feedback and trends meticulously and disseminate insights to drive alignment across the team.
2. Manage external designers to distill ambiguous problems into concrete, high-quality product experiences.
3. Master every button, page, and function of the product and push for clarity, consistency, and quality across the entire application.
4. Work with both internal and external stakeholders to understand net new use-cases and workflows that we want to tackle.
5. Drive a culture of documentation and excellence around product planning and execution.
6. Create and drive systems for constant product iteration, improvement and management. We are currently using Basecamp’s Shape Up methodology, but will look to you to mold and shape any methods to Argon’s needs.

About you

1. You have taste. You have apps and features that you love and hate with strong preferences as to how things should be. You’re excited about the future of AI products and want to operate at the bleeding edge of AI and delightful user experiences.
2. Detail oriented and user experience obsessed. You are biased towards user experience and have high user-empathy levels. You are meticulous with documentation, tracking details, and can set pace and a culture-of-excellence for the team.
3. Curious and creative, but practical in execution. You are comfortable exploring large problem and solution spaces but can distill complexity into practical solutions.
4. AI Native. The practice of Product Management is primed for change with AI at its core. You’re excited about building a PM function leveraging new tools and LLMs to distill user insights, vibe code prototypes, and get creative.
5. Strong product fundamentals. You understand product management frameworks and common product patterns.
6. Analytical. You take an analytical and data driven approach to understanding product and user behavior when data is available.
7. Design chops is a big plus. If you are comfortable with Figma or other design tools and can mock up your ideas to help speed up iteration then that would be a big help!