Product Manager

Collate; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Collate in San Francisco is seeking a product leader to define the roadmap for a new AI category and own the end-to-end product surface. You will sit at the intersection of engineering and go-to-market, turning customer needs into a ship-ready plan for the team to execute.

You’ll partner closely with the CEO to shape the product vision, drive ownership across disciplines, and help Collate become the category leader in enterprise AI for life sciences.

Responsibilities

• Define the roadmap for an AI category that doesn't exist yet and build it.
• Co-own the product surface end-to-end and translate customer needs into a ship-ready roadmap.
• Collaborate with the CEO to align customers' needs with the product vision.

Job description

About Collate

Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.

Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders.

We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.

About the Role

Collate is the first of its kind for what we're building — no incumbent doing this today, and no established workflow to copy. That's the job: continue to define the roadmap for an AI category that doesn't exist yet, then build it.

You'll co‑own the product surface end to end that lets the world's most regulated companies trust us with their most sensitive documents. You'll sit at the intersection of engineering and go‑to‑market, working directly with Surbhi (CEO) to turn what customers need into a roadmap the team can actually ship.

This is a rare seat: you're not maintaining an AI category, you're creating a new one. It's a role for someone who wants outsized ownership over how an early‑stage company becomes the category leader without slowing down.

We are 5 days a week onsite in San Francisco.

Why Join Collate?

• Impact: Build systems and experiences that touch real patients and providers, improving healthcare outcomes.

• Ownership: Shape both our product experience and our engineering culture from the start.

• Learning: Collaborate with a uniquely interdisciplinary team—AI researchers, healthcare leaders, and experienced startup builders.

• Upside: Join a company early enough to have meaningful equity and career-defining impact

The base salary range for this role is competitive, depending on experience and level (Tier 1, San Francisco)