Director, Product

Ceribell, Inc; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 237,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based incentive

Equity opportunities

Health benefits for employees

Life and long-term disability

401(k) with company match

ESPP with discount

Monthly cell phone stipend

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Ceribell, Inc. is seeking a visionary Director for the Product team to own strategy across software, hardware, and UI. You will partner with R&D, Engineering, Data Science, and Marketing to drive execution from opportunity to launch.

The role demands leadership, strategic foresight, and a track record in cross-functional initiatives within healthcare or medical tech. This hybrid role involves travel for customer engagement and events.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, Engineering, or related field.
• MBA or advanced degree highly preferred.
• 8-10+ years in product management or strategy roles in healthcare/medical tech.
• Familiarity with FDA regulatory pathways (e.g. 510(k)).
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Excellent analytical and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Market assessment and competitive analysis to identify unmet needs and opportunities.
• Define new product opportunities and business cases with pricing and margins.
• Create and manage product roadmaps with clear milestones.
• Guide cross-functional teams through requirements, UI/UX handoffs, and go-to-market planning.
• Collaborate with executives and clinical affairs for strategy and evidence generation.

Skills

Market research

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic roadmap planning

Analytical excellence

Executive communication

AI leverage

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Life Sciences/Engineering

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

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Overview

We are seeking a visionary, strategic, and results-driven Director for our Product team. This role is an individual contributor responsible for understanding unmet needs across our software, hardware, and UI products, converting them into validated product opportunities and business cases, defining the product roadmap, and partnering with Product Design, R&D, Engineering, and Data Science to drive execution through launch. The ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional leadership, strategic foresight, and analytical acumen, with a proven track record of driving large-scale, cross- functional initiatives. You will serve as a key organizational leader, collaborating closely with executive leadership across Marketing, R&D, Engineering, Data science and Product Design to maximize market impact and drive product development. This role owns product strategy and definition through the point of detailed requirements; Product Design owns detailed requirements and UI/UX execution, and go-to-market strategy and commercial launch execution are owned by the Marketing and Go-to-Market teams, in partnership with this role.

This role is hybrid with some travel required for customer engagement, industry events, and headquarters collaboration (1-2 weeks per month).

What you’ll do:

• Market assessment: Leverage market research, performance of existing products, conferences, KOLs and expert interviews to develop a deep understanding of market dynamics including TAM, macroeconomic trends, needs of customers, patients and payors, competitive threats, and unmet needs.
• Opportunity identification: Define new product opportunities that address unmet needs, capture significant revenue opportunities for the company, differentiate the portfolio and resonate across customer segments. Partner with Sales, KOLs, and physician customers to identify opportunities for new products as well as improvements and modifications to existing product lines, serving as the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle. Test underlying assumptions to strengthen the case for an opportunity and develop business case, including pricing and margin analysis. Determine resources needed to bring opportunity to market. Drive toward a clear go/no-go decision.
• Roadmap definition: Define key timelines and milestones for new product development. Identify critical decision points and ensure decisions are made in a timely fashion. Ensure that new product opportunities fit synergistically into the overall company roadmap for new products and ensure adequate support.
• Drive action: Champion organizational alignment to drive adoption and implementation of roadmap. Partner with Product Design to hand off approved opportunities for detailed requirements and UI/UX definition, and support R&D Engineering, and Data Science as they develop the product. Remain the strategic-level subject matter expert on product opportunity and business case, and the escalation point for major roadmap and scope trade-offs. Partner with Clinical Affairs on clinical study design and evidence generation strategy for products under development.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by your Manager/Supervisor.

What We’re Looking For:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree highly preferred.
• Experience: 8-10+ years of progressive experience in product management, product strategy (sometimes titled “upstream marketing” at other companies), or management consulting leadership roles, with a strong preference for individuals from the healthcare or medical technology industry.
• Familiarity: with FDA regulatory pathways (e.g. 510(k)) and clinical evidence requirements.
• Leadership Skills: Proven experience managing cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical Excellence: Exceptional analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to transform complex datasets into executive-level strategic directives.
• Communication: Masterful verbal and written communication skills, with extensive experience presenting to executive leadership and external stakeholders.
• Product roadmap: Previous experience in developing product roadmaps is highly preferred.
• AI leverage: Comfort using AI tools to accelerate market/clinical research and analysis is a plus as we look to build more AI leverage into the Strategy and Design functions.

Compensation Range

$237,000 - $252,000 USD

A candidate’s final salary offer will be based on their skills, education, work location and experience, and thus it may differ from the posted range. Compensation may also include bonuses consistent with Ceribell’s corporate compensation plan. Note, the above description is not all-encompassing and Ceribell reserves the right to change or modify job duties and assignments at any time.

In addition to your base compensation, Ceribell offers eligible employees the following:

• Performance-based incentive compensation (varies by role)
• Equity opportunities
• 100% Employer paid Health Benefits for Employees
• 100% paid Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) with a generous company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a discount
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Flexible paid time off
• 13 Paid Holidays + 3 Company Wellness Days
• Excellent parental leave policy
• Fantastic culture with tremendous career advancement opportunities
• Joining a mission-minded organization!

Application Deadline:

Ongoing

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