Senior Product Manager
Product
Zürich, Switzerland
Posted on Aug 5, 2026
Senior Product Manager
Zurich, Switzerland
Product
Hybrid
Full-time
About Rivia
Rivia is a technology company building a data engine that powers the future of clinical trial intelligence. Rivia was founded on the belief that new drugs can be brought to market more successfully with a fraction of today's capital.
Biotechs are the source of most therapeutic innovation, yet clinical development is constantly constrained by fragmented data and outdated tooling. Rivia unifies clinical trial data at scale through a core engine built as a reusable intelligence layer, comprising hundreds of configurations and trial-specific logic, independent of source structure. This vertical stack of data engine, workflows, and agents creates a distinct advantage in how trials are operated.
Over the past two years, European and US based biotechs running global clinical trials on Rivia have demonstrated measurable impact, from earlier understanding of therapeutic potential to significantly more efficient trial execution. In March 2026, Rivia raised its $15M Series A led by Earlybird Venture Capital.
Rivia’s ambition is to become the standard infrastructure for modern drug development, transforming how trials are executed end-to-end.
About the Product Team
You would be Rivia's first product person. Today, product management is carried by the engineers and founders. Your job is to take it over, build the function, and make shipping high quality products repeatable. As Rivia scales, there is a clear path to leading a PM team.
The Role
As Senior Product Manager at Rivia, you own the path from idea to adopted feature: customer discovery, mockups, specs, weekly refinement, launches, and measurement of impact. You work directly with engineers, customers, and stakeholders, and report to the CTO.
You will be deep in the detail: talking to customers, writing specs, monitoring usage, keeping delivery moving. You also build the product management function itself, with light processes (PRDs, documentation, releases, prioritization) that a future product team builds on, and you own product coherence: the principles that keep features consistent as the platform grows.
Working Model: This role is based on-site in our Zürich office.
What Excites You
- Shipping products that cut clinical trial timelines by multiple weeks. Each day saved is worth millions to our customers and brings therapies to patients sooner.
- Working directly with customers, biotech teams running global clinical trials, to understand problems and turn them into delightful solutions.
- Defining how product management works, from first principles, as the first product hire in an engineer-led team.
- Joining a team that already works AI-native: agentic features run in production on live trials, customers connect their own agents through the Rivia MCP, and much of the roadmap ahead is AI products. You work the same way, from AI-built mockups to agent-driven analysis.
Responsibilities
- Product Execution: Own the full product lifecycle for your scope: discovery, spec, delivery, and post-launch measurement.
- Customer & Stakeholder Loops: Run structured feedback loops with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Usage Monitoring & Metrics: Set targets before building, measure feature health after launch, and make kill, iterate, or double-down calls on the data.
- Launches: Coordinate marketing, CS, and sales around every release so it lands prepared. No surprise launches.
- AI-Powered Product Development: Use AI agents in your daily work, including AI-generated mockups to accelerate discovery, and identify where AI unlocks new value for clinical teams.
- Product Function Building: Set up light processes (PRDs, documentation, release process, prioritization) that the team actually follows.
What Excites Us
- 7+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS with technical products
- You have been the first or sole PM at a B2B startup and built the product function around an engineer-led team
- Has taken at least one product from idea to production with demonstrable adoption
- Hands-on product analytics: built measurement from zero with Mixpanel, Amplitude, or similar
- Has designed and run product processes (refinement, discovery, launches) that engineering teams actually kept
- AI-native way of working: uses AI agents in daily product work, with concrete examples
- Comfortable being the only product person: self-directed, builds the function while running it
- Clinical trials, drug development, or health data experience is a strong plus. Exceptional PMs without it are welcome.
Bonus
- Former lead or head of product who wants to build hands-on again
- Experience shipping for expert or scientific users
Our Values
At Rivia, we are committed to excellence, continuous learning, and the success of both our customers and our team. If you are driven to exceed targets, eager to shape the future of clinical trials, and passionate about making a meaningful difference in the biotech industry, Rivia is the place for you.
- In it to Win it: Approach every challenge with determination, resilience, and a drive, aiming for the best outcomes and solutions.
- Embrace change: We see change as an opportunity for growth, innovation, and improvement, continuously evolving to stay one step ahead.
- Why not?: Asking why not, instead of why, allows us to show our curiosity, allowing us to challenge assumptions and explore new possibilities.
- Find the gap: We are curious and we proactively approach identifying opportunities and solving problems before they arise.
- Collective accountability: We are one team, on one mission and we are committed to shared responsibilities and mutual support, enabling trust and collaboration.
- Value add solutions: Know better. Act better. We are dedicated to delivering meaningful and impactful results.
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