About Auxilius

Auxilius builds clinical trial financial management software that helps drug companies take control over trial costs, manage financial risk, and optimize R&D spend. We provide data, context, and frameworks that empower teams to bring drugs to market faster and more cost-effectively.

With 100+ customers relying on our platform today, we're at an exciting inflection point where thoughtful product decisions have real impact, and the ability to quickly translate customer needs into intuitive scalable solutions can unlock massive market opportunity.

The Role

We're looking for a Product Manager to lead and shape key parts of the Auxilius platform. This individual will be expected to own product strategy and execution while helping elevate our team's product craft.

You'll work deeply in complex systems (particularly finance, accounting, and clinical & operational workflows) and turn them into products that real users love. You'll lead discovery, align cross-functional stakeholders on priorities, and shape product strategy that balances immediate customer needs with long-term platform vision.

What You’ll Do

Product Strategy and Execution

• Own and shape product strategy for your area, synthesizing insights from customers, data, and market trends into clear roadmaps;
• Own and prioritize product backlog, ensuring the team is working on the highest-impact initiatives
• Lead the full product lifecycle from discovery through launch and iteration
• Align cross-functional stakeholders on priorities and create clarity in ambiguous situations
• Advocate for platform investment over just feature work, thinking about how your product area connects to the broader product and platform vision

Drive Discovery and Customer Understanding

• Lead discovery and feedback calls with customers independently to uncover needs, validate solutions, and build trusted relationships
• Synthesize insights from quantitative and qualitative data (customer interviews, Pendo, ProductBoard, etc.) into actionable roadmap priorities
• Build deep empathy for finance, accounting, and clinical operations users by understanding their workflows end-to-end and anticipate their needs
• Understand the broader market opportunity and competitive landscape to inform strategic decisions
• Partner directly with Sales and Operations teams for continuous feedback loops

Build Products for Complex, Data-Heavy Workflows

• Define and deliver intuitive product experiences for financial and accounting workflows involving large datasets, tables, reconciliations, rollups, edge cases, and multi-step processes
• Partner deeply with Design to translate dense information into clear, trustworthy interfaces
• Collaborate directly with Engineering (whiteboarding, prototyping, and iteration)
• Navigate dependencies to ensure your product integrates seamlessly with the broader platform

Drive Excellence in Execution and Communication

• Lead major feature execution, anticipating dependencies and managing risk
• Craft clear narratives that connect customer problems to solutions, tailoring your message to different audiences (internal, external) and contexts. Produce PRDs, Feature Briefs, and Tickets that are thoughtful, clear, and compelling.
• Present roadmaps to leadership and build exec-ready narratives that persuade through data and customer stories
• Balance trade-offs between speed and scalability, partnering closely with engineering on technical decisions

Elevate Product Practice and Mentor Others

• Bring excellence in product craft and help level up the team's product thinking through mentoring and best-practice sharing
• Improve team processes by optimizing rituals, identifying bottlenecks, and raising the bar on execution

Who Are You?

You're a builder who gets energized by complex problems. You enjoy digging into messy datasets, understanding intricate workflows, and figuring out how to make complicated things feel simple. You understand that in domains like finance and accounting, "pretty good" isn't good enough -- accuracy, trust, and attention to detail are table stakes.

You're comfortable in the gray space between "what customers say they want" and "what will actually solve their problem." You know how to balance stakeholder input with product vision, and you're not afraid to push back when needed, but you do it with data and empathy.

You're a student of your craft. You bring best practices, modern methods, and high standards to everything you build, while considering speed. You are pragmatic and would rather ship something good and iterate than wait for perfect. You know when to zoom in on details and when to zoom out to see the bigger picture.

Most importantly, you're driven by impact. You want to build products that fundamentally change how an industry works.

What We're Looking For

Required

• 5+ years of product management experience in B2B or enterprise SaaS, with a proven track record of leading product areas end-to-end
• Experience building enterprise-grade products in a startup or growth-stage environment, where you've had to balance enterprise requirements (reliability, auditability, scalability) with startup constraints (small team, fast iteration, limited resources)
• Demonstrated ability to shape product strategy, synthesize insights from multiple sources, and translate them into clear roadmaps
• Experience leading discovery independently, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and managing ambiguity
• Experience building data-dense, complex, workflow-heavy products
• Strong mental model for data work and familiarity with excel. Comfortable thinking about data standardization, modeling, benchmarking, and analytics as product features
• Deep comfort with the design process: fluent in tools like Figma, experienced in collaborating with designers from discovery through delivery
• Excellence in product craft with proven ability to mentor and elevate team capabilities—you bring formal training or deep knowledge of modern methods and can teach, not just execute
• Strong communication skills. Can craft compelling narratives, present to leadership, and explain complex workflows clearly

Strong Plus

• Experience building financial or accounting software; understand what is essential when you ask users to leave excel (manual, but comfortable!)
• Multi-product or platform experience where you've advocated for architectural decisions and platform thinking
• Familiarity with healthcare or life sciences industries
• Experience building products where accuracy, auditability, and user trust are critical
• Can build deep enough product knowledge to play a technical sales or SME role - can demo products, handle objections, and speak credibly about capabilities in customer/prospect conversations
• Experience influencing pricing, packaging, or positioning decisions (GTM strategy)

Why This Matters

The life sciences industry spends $250-300 billion annually on clinical R&D, yet outcomes remain stubbornly poor. Even when the science works—when the data shows promise—trials rarely finish on time or on budget. The cost of drug development has risen relentlessly for decades (Eroom's Law), and the industry has accepted this as inevitable.

We don't.

At Auxilius, we believe science matters, but trial outcomes depend on more than science alone. We believe sponsors deserve tools built to handle the complexity of clinical trials, and that while science is inherently unpredictable, budgets don't need to be. We're building software that proves biotechs can bring drugs to market quickly and cost-effectively—it just takes the right tools.

This is your chance to work on products that directly impact how life-saving treatments reach patients. You'll join a team that cares deeply about craft, at a stage where what you build will define the company—and help reshape an entire industry's approach to R&D efficiency.

What We Offer

We offer premium healthcare, with access to modern health partners like One Medical, Kindbody, Talkspace, and Teladoc, plus a Flexible Spending Account. Beyond healthcare, we support your future with a 401(k) that matches 100% of the first 1% you contribute and 50% of the next 5%, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, and 24/7 well-being resources through Health Advocate.We know the best work comes from people who are recharged, so we offer unlimited PTO so you can take the time you need, when you need it.