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# Head of Product at Novellia

- **Company:** Novellia
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $175k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-21
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novellia/29b01938-e0f5-410b-b035-ebb40a0d673a

## Job description

## About the Role

We are looking for a seasoned Head of Product to own and scale this function. This is one of the most important hires we will make as a company.

Novellia operates at the intersection of healthcare and consumer, where patient empowerment meets everyday life. We believe the best products in this space feel less like medical tools and more like things people actually want to use. The early team has been driving product decisions since day one. That's gotten us here. Now we need someone to take us from a great foundation and grow the org that carries us through Series B and beyond. One thing worth knowing: engineering and product have built something genuinely rare here, a tight, trust-based collaboration where technical and product thinking happen together, not in sequence. We care about preserving that as we scale. You are walking into a strong engineering and data team that will move fast and execute hard on the right vision. What we need now is the product org to lead the way.

You will report directly to the CTO and own product and product design end to end: strategy, roadmap, team, and execution. As you build the org, you will be in the work: setting direction, making calls, shipping. The team grows around you. You will sit on the leadership team and be a genuine voice in where this company goes, not just how it gets there.

What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)

- Develop a deep understanding of Novellia's users, market, and current product across both our healthcare and consumer surfaces
- Absorb and sharpen the product strategy with the founding team, building on what exists and making it something the whole company can rally behind
- Have a clear point of view on the product org Novellia needs to win, and be actively building toward it: hiring ahead of the need, developing the team you have, and thinking about structure before it becomes a problem
- Evolve the ways of working across product and design so the team ships with rigor and speed as it grows
- Ship something meaningful: a bet you own from framing through delivery that moves a real outcome
- Become a trusted thought partner to the CTO, CEO, and Commercial team on where the product goes next

## Responsibilities

Product Strategy

- Work with the founders to define and pressure-test where Novellia wins, across healthcare and consumer
- Translate strategy into a roadmap with clear priorities and the reasoning behind them
- Make the hard calls on what not to build, and more importantly, what to give up on when it's not working
- Represent product in board conversations, partner discussions, and recruiting

Product & Design Execution

- Own the full product development process from discovery through delivery
- Set a high bar for product quality and design craft. You don't need to hold a Figma file, but you need taste and conviction
- Partner closely with Engineering to ship reliably without losing speed
- Maintain direct contact with users and customers. This is not a role that delegates learning

## Team Building

- Hire, develop, and retain a world-class product and design team as we scale
- Build a culture of rigor, craft, and genuine accountability to outcomes, not output
- Develop the people around you; create an environment where strong PMs and designers do their best work

## Requirements

- 8+ years in product, with meaningful time at early-stage or high-growth companies
- Deep consumer product experience. You know what it takes to make something people genuinely love and come back to. Healthcare experience is a strong plus but not a requirement
- You have found product-market fit, not inherited it. We are not looking for someone who joined a company that had already figured out what it was building and scaled from there. We want someone who was in the room when it was still unclear, made bets, got some wrong, and eventually cracked it, and can tell that story with specificity
- Proven ability to grow and lead a product org, not just manage one at scale
- Experience owning product design as well as product management
- Track record hiring and developing strong product managers and designers in early-stage environments
- Strong design sensibility. You set a high bar and know the difference between good and great
- Direct, clear communicator who can operate at the executive level without losing the details
- High ownership mindset. You notice what needs to be done and do it without being asked

Bonus

- Background shipping products in real-world evidence, health data, or biopharma-adjacent contexts
- Familiarity with health data standards and ecosystems: FHIR, CCDA, claims data, EHR/EMR integrations, or similar
- Experience in a data-as-product environment, where the data itself is what you sell and shaping it into something a customer can buy and trust is part of the product work

## Who You Are

- A builder first: energized by 0-to-1 moments, not optimizing what already exists
- Strategic without losing sight of execution. You zoom out and zoom in with equal ease
- Direct and low-ego in collaboration; you give and receive feedback well
- Motivated by hard problems where getting the product right genuinely matters
- Comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities, and the pace of a fast-growing Series A company
- You bring a point of view on the product, on the market, on what good looks like, and you defend it
- You earn the respect of engineers, not just work alongside them. You understand how things get built and that makes you a better product thinker
- You think about the org as part of the job, not a distraction from it. You're proactive about structure, hiring, and team health before they become problems
- You outwork the problem. When something matters, you stay with it until it's righ

## About Novellia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Novellia is a free personal health record platform that aggregates medical data across providers into a single, secure view, funded by de-identified data partnerships with biopharmaceutical researchers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – Alive)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Shashi Shankar (CEO), Elliot Katz (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Health technology / Healthcare IT
- **Target customers**: B2C (patients and caregivers) and B2B (biopharmaceutical companies, researchers, advocacy groups)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To be the north star of patient equity” – empowering patients with their complete health data while accelerating medical breakthroughs through responsible use of de-identified, aggregated data. [novellia.com](https://novellia.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Novellia (Personal Health Record Platform)**: A free, web-based tool that lets US users connect their patient portals (50,000+ healthcare systems) to view a lifetime of medical records in one place. Users can also track symptoms, side effects, medications, and prepare for appointments. The platform is designed to be ad‑free, subscription‑free, and credit‑card‑free. A mobile app is in development. [novellia.com](https://novellia.com/)

- **Research & Clinical Trial Matching**: Novellia works with top life science organizations to match patients with relevant clinical trials and to generate real‑world evidence from de‑identified, aggregated data. This partnership model funds the free consumer platform. [novellia.com](https://novellia.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – **$18M** raised (Series A, announced June 2, 2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/novellia)
- **Notable Investors**: Bling Capital, TMV, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Acrew Capital, and three additional undisclosed investors. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/novellia)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount growth of **92.3% year‑over‑year** (currently 28 employees) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/novellia)
  - LinkedIn following growth of **122.9% year‑over‑year** (1,761 followers) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/novellia)
  - Named a **2026 Fierce Outsourcing Award recipient** [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/novellia)
  - Active job postings: 4 (including senior engineering and product roles) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/novellia)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Free consumer platform** funded entirely by research partnerships – no ads, no subscription, no paywalls.
- **Data aggregation scale** – connects with over 50,000 healthcare systems and can retrieve nearly a decade of health data in under 30 seconds.
- **Patient‑first business model** – only uses de‑identified, aggregated data for research, keeping individual records private and under user control.
- **Strong research‑backed moat** – partnerships with top life science organizations and advocacy groups create network effects and a unique supply of consented, structured health data.

## Strategic Focus
- **Mobile app launch** – the web platform is being extended to iOS and Android (planned for later 2025/2026) to reach more users. [novellia.com](https://novellia.com/)
- **Scaling research partnerships** – leveraging the $18M Series A to expand the data platform and support more clinical trials and real‑world evidence studies.
- **Accelerating patient equity** – the company prioritizes bridging gaps in access and outcomes for underserved populations, in line with its mission. [novellia.com](https://novellia.com/about-us)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture** – employees work directly on improving patient outcomes and making health data accessible to everyone, regardless of background.
- **Core values** – Urgency, Excellence, Optimism, Grit, and Integrity shape decision‑making and team dynamics. [novellia.com](https://novellia.com/about-us)
- **Fast‑growth startup environment** – the team has grown ~92% year‑over‑year (28 people) and is hiring for senior technical and commercial roles.
- **Work location** – HQ in New York City (35 West 31st Street); office policy not explicitly stated, but NYC presence suggests hybrid or in‑office norm.
- **Notable perks** – direct impact on healthcare innovation, collaboration with world‑class researchers, and transparent engineering culture focused on building a consumer‑grade health platform.

## Sources
1. [novellia.com](https://novellia.com/) – Product description, FAQ, and value proposition
2. [novellia.com/careers](https://novellia.com/careers) – Mission statement and team values
3. [novellia.com/about-us](https://novellia.com/about-us) – Company story, founders, and values
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/novellia) – Funding details ($18M Series A), investors, and awards
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/novellia) – Employee count, growth metrics, and open positions

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