Lead AI Agent Product Manager — Life Sciences

Valkai; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation including  -

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Generous PTO

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Valkai in San Francisco is seeking a product leader to own how we turn frontier AI into agents that life sciences teams rely on every day, driving critical workflows in drug development.

You’ll partner with engineers, AI strategists, and customers to translate field learnings into product requirements, prototype new agent capabilities, and ship features that deliver measurable value while meeting governance and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of product management experience building highly technical products.
• A track record of owning a product roadmap and shipping technical products end‑to‑end with engineering teams.
• Hands‑on fluency with how AI agents behave—prompting, evaluation, and guardrails.
• Experience crafting a message for customers, including executives.
• Degree in a technical field, or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Build enterprise-grade AI agents for life sciences: partner directly with engineers, AI strategists, and customers to build and ship AI agents that handle the most complex, high-stakes workflows in drug development, all while meeting the trust, governance, and compliance bar that regulated industries demand.
• Shape the product roadmap: Work with Engineering to scope, prioritize, and implement the new agent capabilities and platform features essential to your customers’ success, balancing customer impact against technical feasibility and driving them from concept to launch.
• Discover where agents will make an impact: Ground-up discovery is a critical part of the role. Work closely with customers to identify new use cases and opportunities where AI agents can deliver real value—then decide which are worth building and turn recurring, account‑specific solutions into reusable, productized capabilities that scale across the customer base.
• Engage with customers: Run discovery with scientific, technical, and executive stakeholders to assess and pressure‑test their requirements; build and demonstrate prototypes of Valkai’s agents; work through technical and process challenges alongside your engineering counterparts; and translate operational drug‑development challenges into clear product requirements.
• Define and measure success: Set requirements, test outputs, and validate success criteria for new agent builds. Establish the metrics that tell us an agent is genuinely delivering value—and use them to drive the roadmap.

Skills

Product management

Technical product sense

Strong communicatio

Ambiguity handling

Customer-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Valkai in San Francisco is seeking a product leader to own how we turn frontier AI into agents that life sciences teams rely on every day, driving critical workflows in drug development.

You’ll partner with engineers, AI strategists, and customers to translate field learnings into product requirements, prototype new agent capabilities, and ship features that deliver measurable value while meeting governance and compliance standards.