Senior Director, Software Product Management and Product Engineering
BillionToOne
Summary
We are seeking a highly driven leader for one of the most critical and high-impact roles at BillionToOne: the Senior Director of Software Product Management & Product Engineering. In this role, you will lead the organization responsible for building and scaling BillionToOne's software products and platforms across both our oncology and prenatal businesses. This includes external customer-facing experiences such as provider portals and patient portals, as well as mission-critical internal software platforms such as an internal variant curation and report generation platform.
Job description
This is a unique opportunity for a product-first technology leader who combines exceptional product management instincts with strong engineering leadership experience. The ideal candidate is deeply customer-centric, understands how to build scalable and elegant software systems, embraces an AI-first mindset, and has experience leveraging emerging AI capabilities to deliver differentiated customer experiences and operational advantage. This leader should also have experience managing engineering organizations while maintaining a strong product and business mindset.
You will oversee both the Software Product Management and Software Product Engineering organizations, partnering closely with Clinical Product, IT/IS, Data Science, Bioinformatics, Operations, Commercial, and Executive Leadership teams to deliver category-defining software experiences and operational platforms that create a durable competitive advantage. This is a hybrid (onsite 3 days/week) position reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Software Product Management and Software Product Engineering organizations across oncology and prenatal software products
- Define and execute the software product and platform strategy for provider portals, patient experiences, operational platforms, and internal workflow tools
- Drive an AI-first approach across both product development and engineering operations, leveraging modern AI technologies and tools to accelerate development and improve software quality and team productivity
- Identify opportunities to transform emerging AI capabilities into differentiated customer-facing products and meaningful customer value
- Partner closely with Clinical Product, Data Science, Bioinformatics, IT/IS, Operations, and Commercial teams to deliver category-defining software experiences and operational platforms
- Lead engineering managers and software engineering teams responsible for architecture, development, infrastructure, quality, scalability, and operational excellence
- Establish strong product and engineering operating mechanisms, execution frameworks, and prioritization processes to ensure predictable, high-quality software delivery
- Build a high-performance culture centered around customer obsession, ownership, speed, technical excellence, and business impact
- Serve as the company's leading expert on customer workflows and software user experience across provider, patient, and internal operational systems
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in software product management, software engineering, or technology leadership roles with increasing organizational responsibility
- Strong product management background with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of complex software products and platforms
- Experience managing software engineering organizations and engineering leaders
- Proven ability to lead both product and engineering functions simultaneously
- Track record of building and scaling customer-facing software products and/or complex operational software systems
- Strong understanding of software architecture, platform development, system scalability, and engineering tradeoffs
- Experience leveraging AI technologies and AI-enabled development workflows to deliver customer and business value
- Strong product instincts with the ability to identify and translate emerging technologies into practical customer-facing solutions
- Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Highly entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on when needed
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with ambiguity and rapid iteration
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in healthcare, diagnostics, life sciences, genomics, or regulated environments
- Experience building provider-facing or patient-facing healthcare software products
- Strong experience with US healthcare technologies and ecosystems, including healthcare data, interoperability standards, and clinical workflow systems
- Experience working closely with AI, machine learning, or data platform teams
- Prior experience leading organizations through significant scale and organizational growth
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software product management, software engineering, or technology leadership roles with increasing organizational responsibility
- Strong product management background with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of complex software products and platforms
- Experience managing software engineering organizations and engineering leaders
- Proven ability to lead both product and engineering functions simultaneously
- Track record of building and scaling customer-facing software products and/or complex operational software systems
- Strong understanding of software architecture, platform development, system scalability, and engineering tradeoffs
- Experience leveraging AI technologies and AI-enabled development workflows to deliver customer and business value
- Strong product instincts with the ability to identify and translate emerging technologies into practical customer-facing solutions
- Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Highly entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on when needed
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with ambiguity and rapid iteration
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 100% employee premiums select plans
- Dependents covered up to 80%
- Family Bonding Leave 16 weeks
- Supplemental fertility benefits
- 401(k) 4% Company Match
- Equity options
- Annual bonus program
- PTO increases with tenure
- Cost-of-living salary adjustments
- Latest hardware provided
Company overview
BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2016 with a mission to make molecular diagnostics more accurate, efficient, and accessible. The company has developed a proprietary Quantitative Counting Templates (QCT) molecular counting platform that can accurately count DNA molecules at the single-molecule level, enabling unprecedented sensitivity in disease detection. BillionToOne operates as a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under the symbol BLLN, having completed a successful IPO in 2025. The company's diagnostic platforms include UNITY Complete for non-invasive prenatal testing, which assesses fetal risk for recessive conditions and aneuploidies from a single maternal blood sample, and Northstar oncology products for cancer therapy selection and treatment response monitoring. With over 500 employees and multiple CLIA/CAP accredited laboratories, BillionToOne represents a significant advancement in quantitative molecular diagnostics, combining breakthrough science with scalable commercial operations to transform healthcare delivery.