Product Manager, Urology Bio-AI Nexus

About the role

The Product Manager, Urology Bio-AI Nexus, reports to the Vice Chair for Translational and Population Science Research and Associate Chair for Data and Analytics in the UCSF Department of Urology. This role drives 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. The position combines technical program management with direct product development support, operating at the interface between data engineering, clinical and translational research, and end users.

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 serves as a critical integrating force—ensuring 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.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements from clinical and laboratory science faculty, clinical research leadership, and other key staff into actionable specifications
• Coordinate development priorities and timelines across cross-functional teams
• Contribute directly to the completion and documentation of software tools and data products
• Extend existing codebases using AI-assisted development tools (Python, SQL) without requiring full-stack software architecture expertise
• Proactively identify gaps between current platform capabilities and program needs
• Maintain a living product roadmap
• Ensure tools emerging from the Nexus meet standards of usability, reliability, and documentation required for use by clinical research staff, investigators, and institutional partners
• Develop project plans and manage the design, development, testing, and documentation of select products, services, or enhancements
• Formulate and execute business plans for product development and launch
• Develop and participate in public outreach activities and informational campaigns to promote awareness of products or services
• Maintain knowledge of new trends and products in the appropriate markets

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or equivalent experience/training (required)
• Advanced degree (MS, MPH, PhD, or MBA) in computer science, biomedical informatics, data science, public health, or a related field (preferred)

Experience

• Minimum 5 years of product management, technical program management, or equivalent experience in a data-intensive technology environment (required)
• Demonstrated experience collecting user requirements, managing product backlogs, and driving software products from development to deployment (required)
• Experience working in a research, clinical, or healthcare data environment (required)
• Familiarity with electronic health record data structures (Epic/Clarity preferred) and clinical data standards (HL7, FHIR, OMOP) (preferred)
• Familiarity with DICOM imaging data, digital pathology workflows, or AI/ML model deployment (preferred)

Skills

• Technical 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 (required)
• Strong organizational and project management skills, including experience maintaining roadmaps and holding cross-functional teams to timelines and deliverables without formal supervisory authority (required)
• Advanced oral and written communication skills; demonstrated ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders (required)
• Experience with data visualization, user interface prototyping, or exploratory data tools (preferred)

About UCSF

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. UCSF is home to five Nobel laureates who have advanced the understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, aging, and stem cells.

UCSF is a diverse community made of people with many skills and talents. The university seeks candidates whose work experience or community service has prepared them to contribute to its commitment to professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity, and excellence—known as the PRIDE values. In addition to these values, UCSF is committed to equity—both in how it delivers care and in its workforce—and to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care.