Product Manager

LatchBio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base Salary is $140K-$200K

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Every lunch and dinner is paid for

100% premium covered on Cigna's health

Relocation Assistance

401(k) Plan

Company-Sponsored professional develop

Job summary

LatchBio is seeking a Product Manager to guide the platform used by 100+ scientists and operations teams. You will translate scientist needs into clear priorities for engineering, report to the Chief Product Officer, and ensure that shipped features improve daily research work.

You'll be on-site in San Francisco, collaborate with founders and cross-functional teams, and define measurable outcomes. A focus on user experience, prototyping in Figma, and ability to balance strategic thinking with

Qualifications

• Strong focus on user experience and product quality.
• Ability to prototype flows in Figma and explain them to engineers.
• Willingness to dig into details and balance strategic goals with execution.

Responsibilities

• Be the voice of scientists and translate their needs into engineering priorities.
• Own outcomes and define metrics to move business impact through shipping.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and report to the Chief Product Officer.

Skills

User experience

Product sense

UX prototyping (Figma)

Strategic thinking

Biology familiarity

Education

Undergraduate biology background

Job description

Product Manager

Our mission is to advance humanity's ability to engineer biology. We approach this by understanding and improving AI's application to biology across basic research, drug discovery, and biosecurity. We are a team of engineers, scientists, and operations specialists who are driven by improving capabilities and interpretability. Some of our work is showcased on benchmarks.bio.

The role. Our science team is growing past 100 people, and they're the main users of our platform. We need someone to make that platform great to work in, turning what our scientists and operations team need into clear priorities and making sure what we build actually makes their work better. You'll report to our Chief Product Officer, Hannah Le.

What you'll do.

• Be the voice of our scientists. More than 100 scientists use our platform every day. You'll talk with dozens of them each week, find where their work gets harder than it should be, and turn that into clear priorities for engineering.

• Be the voice of operations. Running a large scientific team means tracking progress, staffing projects, and knowing what each one needs. You'll understand those challenges firsthand and prioritize the features that make them easier.

• Own outcomes, not just features. You'll define the metrics that matter and work with engineering to move them, framing work by impact so the team spends its effort where it counts most.

What you bring.

• An obsession with user experience. You care deeply about the details that make a product feel good to use, and about the people who rely on it: scientists, engineers, and operations.

• Design taste and prototyping as a baseline. You put yourself in a scientist's shoes and mock up flows yourself, in Figma and with AI tools like Claude, so engineers see exactly what you mean. This is expected, not a bonus.

• Willing to get into the weeds, and strategic. You dig into how people actually work, then step back, find the biggest pain points, and focus the team where it will have the most impact.

• You don't need to be a scientist; an undergraduate biology background is enough.

How we work. We're extremely tied to the truth. We care about output and are flexible enough to let people work the way that works for them. This role is on-site in San Francisco, close to science, partnerships, operations, and engineering. We meet as a team Mondays and Fridays, plus ad hoc when we need to. We don't track when you come in or leave, and PTO is unlimited. What matters most is that projects ship well and on time.

Culture. We believe in radical transparency: you'll know how the company is doing, what's working, and what isn't. It's always us against the problem, never each other. We're opinionated but respectful, and we bring solutions along with the problems. We keep meetings to a minimum and judge people on innovation and output, not hours. Outside of work we have company outings most months, team off‑sites, run club, cycling, boxing, ice skating, and soccer; feel free to add to the list.

Benefits

• Base Salary is $140K-$200K

• Equity

• Unlimited PTO

• Every lunch and dinner is paid for

• 100% premium covered on Cigna's platinum health plan ($0 premium, $0 deductible) and 50% premium coverage for dependents. 100% coverage for top-tier Guardian dental and vision plans

• We sponsor most work visas, often all

• Relocation Assistance

• 401(k) Plan

• Company-Sponsored professional development

Who you'll work with most

• Founders: Alfredo, Kyle, Kenny

• Chief Product Officer: Hannah

• Engineering: Aidan A, Joel, Mark, Miller, Zach, Nathan, Anirudh, Ryan, Aidan S, Arjun, Tim, Yuyi

• Operations: Jordan, Daniel, Saul, Andy, Charles, Jesse, Camila

• MTS: Zhen, Harmon, Chris, Dillon, Martin, Ramesh, Ian, Evan, John

• Scientists across Latch

Our work in use

Frontier AI labs use our benchmarks to assess biological capabilities and safeguards. Our work appears in research announcements and model cards, including:

• Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 system card

• Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 system card

• Anthropic: Advancing Claude in healthcare and life sciences

• xAI: Grok 4.7 model card

• xAI: Biosecurity at the frontier