Product Manager, CRO

Location: Remote - Headquarters located in Burlington, MA

Job Type:Remote

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Reports to: Chief Product Officer

Department: Product

Compensation: Base salary range: $130,000 - $145,000

(This role is compensated as base salary plus a company discretionary bonus. The bonus is determined by company performance and is not guaranteed.)

Prendio sit at the center of how biotech companies find, contract with, and pay their research partners. There is a meaningful product opportunity across that journey, and we are bringing on a Product Manager to own it.

This is a build role. You will do the discovery, decide what the product should be, and create the strategy and roadmap behind it. The space is still being defined, which is the point — the work starts with figuring out what is worth building, not with an inherited backlog. We are looking for someone who wants to define something rather than maintain it.

• Form the product strategy for the CRO and supplier side of the business, and build a coherent thread through the ideas and early work that already exist.
• Define where we should play in this market, and be able to tell that story clearly to customers, partners, and internal leadership.

• Get in front of CROs, suppliers, and biotech customers. Understand how the space actually works, where the friction is, and what each side genuinely values.
• Work closely with the internal teams already engaged in this space and build on what the company knows rather than starting from scratch.

• Test the opportunity areas across the CRO journey and determine which of them have real customer and commercial value.
• Say plainly when something does not hold up. Ruling out a hypothesis early is a win here, not a failure.

• Identify where durable commercial value exists across the journey, and what a business model around it looks like.
• Build a value narrative that holds up on both sides of the market, for the biotech and for the partner on the other end of the work.

• Prioritize where we have the best chance to win, and sequence the work into a phased roadmap rather than building everything at once.
• Make the trade-offs explicit so the rest of the company understands what we are doing first and why.

• Work hand in hand with our CRO business leadership. You own the product; they own the commercial and domain side. The two roles are designed to move together.
• Keep leadership current on what discovery is turning up, including the findings that change the plan.

• Partner with product development, data, engineering, sales, and client-facing teams to turn strategy into something that ships.
• Connect this work to the adjacent capabilities already in the platform.

• Translate discovery and strategy into defined, executable products and commercialization opportunities.
• Stay involved through delivery. This is not a strategy role that hands off a deck.

• This is a build role at the front end of something with real room to grow. The person who defines it is the natural person to lead it.
• Depending on performance and how the business develops, the path leads to senior or principal ownership of this portfolio, or to leading it as its own segment.

• There is a clear product strategy and a narrative the whole company can repeat about where we are going in this market.
• The opportunity areas have been tested. The ones with real value are identified and the ones without are explicitly ruled out.
• The product or products worth building are defined, scoped, and understood by the teams that have to build them.
• There is a phased roadmap built around where we can actually win, not around everything that is possible.
• The work is on a credible path to meaningful revenue and business value.

• Meet the internal teams closest to this space and absorb what has already been learned or tried
• Map the CRO journey end to end and find where the real friction…