Spark Team Product Manager

About the role

This is a founding role within Arkana Laboratories, where you will be one half of SPARK, a two-person embedded unit that owns the front of our AI-native development funnel. Your responsibilities include deciding which ideas deserve to exist, shaping them into well-formed problems, and running proofs of concept rigorous enough to justify a kill or a commit. You will convert raw ideas into tested concepts and close every engagement with a documented decision: advance, return, or kill.

Responsibilities

• Own the intake and vetting process for ideas surfaced across the company
• Conduct discovery with end users and stakeholders to separate real problems from wishes
• Frame each engagement as a testable question with explicit success and kill criteria
• Partner with the Spark Team Engineer to scope proofs of concept that answer the question in weeks, not quarters
• Make and document advance/return/kill recommendations; present them to senior leadership
• Run engagement zero: triage the existing portfolio of vibe-coded applications
• Assess PHI/PII touchpoints, data boundaries, and adoption risk as part of every concept
• Identify opportunities to consolidate overlapping tools into a coherent platform narrative
• Build the SPARK operating model itself: intake, engagement cadence, and decision documentation
• Design and guide the roadmap for Arkana's operating system
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Product management experience, ideally in healthcare, SaaS, or regulated environments
• Demonstrated experience taking prototypes/features to production, and killing those that did not deserve it
• Comfort with autonomy and accountability in short, high-focus engagements
• Enough technical fluency to discuss APIs, data models, and deployment trade-offs without translation
• Sharp intuition around UI/UX
• Strong discovery and facilitation skills; able to surface real problems quickly

Qualifications

• Clear, concise communicator, comfortable presenting recommendations to senior leadership
• The judgment and standing to tell a department that its beloved tool should not exist
• Able to bring structure to ambiguous situations quickly

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, generous paid time off and holidays, minimal cost health insurance for you and affordable options for your family, a 401(k) with immediate eligibility and match, company-paid life insurance, company-paid long term disability coverage, affordable vision and dental plans, flexible spending account or health savings account availability, wellness plan and complimentary yoga classes, monthly in-office massages, and employer-sponsored lunches.