Product Manager, Urology Bio-AI Nexus

Job Function Summary:

Responsible for identifying and investigating new product opportunities within a defined range of responsibility. Develops project plans and manages the design, development, testing, and documentation of select products, services or enhancements. Formulates and executes business plans for product development and launch. Develops and participates in public outreach activities and informational campaigns to promote awareness of products or services. Maintains knowledge of new trends and products in the appropriate markets.

Generic Scope:

Technical leader with a high degree of knowledge in the overall field and recognized expertise in specific areas; problem-solving frequently requires analysis of unique issues / problems without precedent and / or structure. May manage programs that include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, and resources; functions with a high degree of autonomy.

Custom Scope: 

The Product Manager, Urology Bio-AI Nexus, reporting to the Vice Chair for Translational and Population Science Research and Associate Chair for Data and Analytics in the UCSF Department of Urology, is responsible for driving product integration, development coordination, and stakeholder alignment across the Nexus platform—a unified, multi-modal research and clinical data ecosystem supporting precision urology at UCSF. This role combines technical program management with direct product development support, operating at the interface between data engineering, clinical and translational research, and end users.

The Product Manager translates requirements from clinical and laboratory science faculty, and clinical research leadership, and other key staff into actionable specifications; coordinates development priorities and timelines; and contributes directly to the completion and documentation of software tools and data products. The position requires sufficient technical fluency to extend existing codebases using AI-assisted development tools, without requiring full-stack software architecture expertise.

The Product Manager operates with a high degree of autonomy, proactively identifying gaps between current platform capabilities and program needs, maintaining a living product roadmap, and ensuring that tools emerging from the Nexus meet standards of usability, reliability, and documentation required for use by clinical research staff, investigators, and institutional partners.

Department Overview:

The UCSF Department of Urology and UCSF Prostate Program curate one of the most comprehensive integrated data ecosystems in academic medicine, spanning electronic health records, natural-language-processed clinical reports, digital pathology, radiology imaging, biospecimens, and multi-omic data across more than 120 TB of on-premise research storage. The Bio-AI Nexus is the program’s strategic platform for connecting these resources into a coordinated, queryable, and scalable infrastructure that enables translational discovery, precision medicine, and AI model development.

The Nexus team is small, highly skilled, and fast-moving, with deep expertise distributed across clinical analytics, data architecture, biostatistics, and translational research. The Product Manager will serve as a critical integrating force—ensuring that the program’s technical assets are developed to production quality, that faculty and staff are aligned on priorities, and that the platform’s growing capabilities are accessible and well-documented for the broad community of faculty, trainees, and clinical research staff who depend on them.

 

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Essential Function (Yes/No)

  

Key Responsibilities

(To be completed by Supervisor)

20

Yes

 

Project Management - develops project plans including goals, deliverables, resources, budget and timelines for launches of products / services / enhancements with significant scope, size, impact and budget or of multiple smaller products of diverse scope.

Roadmap and project coordination. Maintains a living product roadmap across Nexus workstreams; facilitates regular priority-setting with faculty and staff; tracks milestones and deliverables; surfaces and resolves blockers. Ensures development efforts are scoped, sequenced, and documented in alignment with program goals and available resources.

30

Yes

Identifies, organizes, and leads technical discussions with key advisory groups and other customers / clients. Leads the identification of additional opportunities for value added product / service delivery based on customer / client / advisory group interaction and feedback.

Requirements gathering and stakeholder engagement. Works directly with clinical research coordinators, faculty, statisticians, and research operations staff to collect, clarify, and prioritize product requirements. Translates user needs into clear technical specifications. Conducts structured user testing and beta validation of tools under development.

30

Yes

Acts as product / service liaison across the organization, external agencies, and customers to ensure effective production, delivery and operation of new products, services and / or enhancements.

Technical development support and quality assurance. Extends and refines existing software tools and data products using AI-assisted development practices. Contributes to code, configuration, documentation, and testing to advance tools from near-complete 

to production-ready. Works closely with the data architect to coordinate handoffs and ensure continuity.   

Serves a front-line liaison to other UCSF units and departments engaged in similar initiatives to leverage lessons learned and coordinate efforts where possible.

10

Yes

Develops and provides periodic content progress reports outlining key activities and progress toward achieving overall goals.

Metrics and reporting. Defines and tracks key performance indicators for Nexus products and infrastructure. Provides periodic progress reports to program leadership, including progress against established deliverables.

10

Yes

Ensures the preparation and maintenance of documentation including end-user documentation and release notes.

Documentation and knowledge management. Develops and maintains end-user documentation, data dictionaries, release notes, and operational guides for Nexus tools and data products. Ensures that institutional knowledge is captured and accessible.

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Education

Req / Pref

Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.REQAdvanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, or MBA) in computer science, biomedical informatics, data science, public health, or a related field.Preferred

 

Knowledge, Skills and AbilitiesReq / PrefMinimum 5 years of product management, technical program management, or equivalent experience in a data-intensive technology environment.RequiredDemonstrated experience collecting user requirements, managing product backlogs, and driving software products from development to deployment.RequiredTechnical fluency sufficient to read, extend, and troubleshoot existing codebases (Python, SQL) using AI-assisted development tools; ability to contribute to incremental enhancements without full-stack development expertise.RequiredStrong organizational and project management skills, including experience maintaining roadmaps and holding cross-functional teams to timelines and deliverables without formal supervisory authority.RequiredAdvanced oral and written communication skills; demonstrated ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.RequiredExperience working in a research, clinical, or healthcare data environment.PreferredBachelor’s degree in a related field and/or equivalent experience/training.RequiredFamiliarity with electronic health record data structures (Epic/Clarity preferred) and clinical data standards (HL7, FHIR, OMOP).PreferredExperience with data visualization, user interface prototyping, or exploratory data tools.RequiredFamiliarity with DICOM imaging data, digital pathology workflows, or AI/ML model deployment.Preferred