Product Development Manager in Oxford

Join to apply for the Product Development Manager role at Ultromics. Picture yourself at one of the world’s most innovative companies, providing life-saving AI solutions that can make a real difference in helping to combat one of the world’s biggest health burdens. Surrounded by teams and people who challenge you, support you, and inspire you to be extraordinary. Are you ready to join the fight against heart failure?

We are redefining Cardiovascular Medicine through transformational AI solutions and work alongside major collaborations such as Mayo Clinic and NHS England, with one shared ambition, to save lives. Ultromics is a global leader in AI-powered cardiovascular imaging diagnostics, transforming how heart disease is detected, assessed, and managed. Spun out from the University of Oxford, UK and built on a decade of world-leading research, Ultromics is redefining echocardiography with solutions that deliver actionable insights to clinicians and healthcare systems.

Our unique cloud SaaS platform leverages advanced FDA cleared AI diagnostics to unlock complex cardiovascular conditions, including heart failure, cardiac amyloidosis, and more. We have established a world-class clinical evidence base with over 25 peer-reviewed publications, global collaborations with leading academic institutions and healthcare providers, and pivotal partnerships with life sciences organizations focused on drug development and commercialisation.

Ultromics is backed by some of the world’s most influential healthcare and technology VC investors, including Google Ventures (GV), Optum Ventures (UnitedHealth Group), Blue Venture Fund (Blue Cross Blue Shield), and other leading U.S. and U.K.-based funds. These strategic partnerships accelerate our access to healthcare systems, payers, and life sciences organisations, and support our ambition to reshape cardiovascular care on a global scale.

Ultromics is one of the first AI echocardiography solutions to achieve Category III CPT reimbursement from CMS in the U.S., unlocking a scalable commercial pathway and accelerating adoption in routine clinical care. Our growing product portfolio includes tools for disease detection, disease progression assessment, and treatment eligibility evaluation.

We are now expanding our reach, integrating into major healthcare systems and advancing partnerships with life sciences, pharma, and medtech companies to support drug trials and post-market surveillance. Our platform is poised to become the standard in AI-driven cardiovascular diagnostics, enabling better outcomes for patients and more efficient care delivery for providers.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a mission-led company tackling one of the world’s biggest health challenges: heart failure.
• Contribute to cutting-edge AI technologies backed by robust research, regulatory clearances, and reimbursement pathways.
• Collaborate with a passionate, multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, engineers, and commercial experts.
• Work at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and medical imaging with opportunities to shape the future of diagnostics.
• Join us and help change the future of heart health — making cardiovascular disease more detectable, treatable, and survivable for patients everywhere.

Your Role

As a Product Development Manager at Ultromics, you will play a pivotal role in guiding AI-driven medical device products from concept through to commercialisation and post-market success. You will be responsible for managing the product lifecycle in line with Ultromics’ Product Development Management Framework, ensuring every stage, from opportunity assessment through validation, launch, and continuous improvement, is executed efficiently, compliantly, and in alignment with clinical and business priorities.

You’ll work at the intersection of clinical science, engineering, and commercial strategy, translating the company’s mission to transform cardiovascular care into clear product requirements and delivery plans.

Your Responsibilities

• Translate portfolio strategy into clear tactical product deliverables and measurable outcomes.
• Identify unmet clinical and customer needs through research, market analysis, and stakeholder engagement.
• Drive the product vision, positioning, and value propositions through the product development and into the commercial GTM.
• Understand and ensure the business cases for assigned products are delivered through product development decisions.

Product Lifecycle Management

• Manage the full product lifecycle in line with the Product Development Processes, including concept, feasibility, development, validation, launch, and post-market phases.
• Maintain accountability for documentation, traceability, and compliance throughout the lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Regulatory, Quality, and Engineering teams to ensure products, changes and updates meet ISO 13485, ISO 62304, and FDA 21 CFR Part 820 standards.
• Follow good information governance practice throughout this job role and ensure compliance with Ultromics’ information security and data protection policies in all applicable assigned tasks.
• Track and report on product performance post-launch, ensuring feedback loops drive ongoing improvement and evidence generation.
• Continually assess project management processes for efficiency improvements and automation using AI.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as the primary point of coordination between Product, Engineering, AI, Clinical, and Commercial teams.
• Work with the other product team members and closely with the CPO and VP of Medical Device Engineering to ensure the roadmap is technically feasible and aligned with resource capacity.
• Support clear communication between product discovery (CPO), delivery (Engineering), and validation (Clinical and Regulatory).
• Facilitate sprint and milestone planning with technical and clinical leaders, ensuring delivery remains focused on intended outcomes.

Evidence and Validation Planning

• Collaborate with the Clinical, Regulatory and Market Access teams to plan validation activities, ensuring clinical performance supports intended use and labeling.
• Support evidence generation activities and clinical study design relevant to regulatory submissions and reimbursement.
• Ensure that data requirements for AI development are defined and validated against clinical and product needs.

Go-to-Market and Post-Market Activities

• Support launch planning, including messaging and customer readiness activities.
• Partner with Marketing and Commercial teams to translate technical and clinical value into clear customer benefits.
• Oversee post-market surveillance, product feedback, and performance monitoring in collaboration with Quality, Service, Engineering and Clinical teams.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives based on real-world product performance and customer experience.

This list of duties is not exhaustive, and the post holder may be asked to carry out other duties through discussion with their line manager.

Requirements

Your skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 4+ years’ experience in product management or equivalent role within medical devices, digital health, or healthcare technology.
• Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects through structured product development processes.
• Strong understanding of medical device regulations, quality management systems, and evidence generation.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
• Experience translating clinical needs and data insights into actionable product requirements.

Your Desired Skills and Experience

• Advanced degree.
• Experience in AI-enabled medical devices or software as a medical device (SaMD).
• Familiarity with ISO 13485, ISO 14971, ISO 62304, and regulatory submissions (FDA, MDR, UKCA).
• Experience using QMS such as Confluence.
• Experience with project Management tools such as Jira.
• Understanding of echocardiography or cardiovascular medicine.
• Experience in a venture-backed start-up or scale-up environment.
• Demonstrated ability to balance clinical, commercial, and technical priorities.

Benefits

We are committed to promoting work-life balance and offer a range of benefits to encourage this, including:

• Hybrid working options
• PMI & cash plan
• Life assurance
• Two additional paid Company holidays in December (if they fall on Monday-Friday)
• Two paid volunteering days per year
• Wellness benefit
• 5% company pension contribution
• Employee referral reward
• Generous personal learning budget on our online learning marketplace, Learnerbly
• A well-stocked kitchen with free snacks - and great coffee!

Our Values

• Prioritising Patients: Everything we do is focused on improving patients’ lives - through earlier diagnosis, better pathways to treatment, and meaningful clinical outcomes.
• Scientific Integrity: We are evidence-led and clinically grounded. We pursue truth over convenience, upholding the highest standards of precision, validation and transparency.
• Bold Innovation: We challenge convention, embrace complexity, and push boundaries to transform cardiovascular diagnostics through AI.
• Commitment and Craft: We show up with purpose, work hard, and take pride in our impact.
• Kindness and Respect: We treat each other, our partners, and our users with consideration and empathy.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Product Management

Industries: Hospitals and Health Care