--- title: 'Product Manager at Collate' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-collate-san-francisco-yckb0hs8t53k' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Product Manager at Collate - **Company:** Collate - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/collate/accdd901-bb45-40ab-af3b-9e8ed775dfb8 ## Job description ## About Collate Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market. Our CEOSurbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator. Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific. Our CTONate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders. We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI. This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale. ## About the Role Collate is the first of its kind for what we're building — no incumbent doing this today, and no established workflow to copy. That's the job: continue to define the roadmap for an AI category that doesn't exist yet, then build it. You'll co-own the product surface end to end that lets the world's most regulated companies trust us with their most sensitive documents. You'll sit at the intersection of engineering and go-to-market, working directly with Surbhi (CEO) to turn what customers need into a roadmap the team can actually ship. This is a rare seat: you're not maintaining an AI category, you're creating a new one. It's a role for someone who wants outsized ownership over how an early-stage company becomes the category leader without slowing down. We are 5 days a week onsite in San Francisco. ## What You'll Do - Define and drive the AI product strategy for Collate's capabilities for organizations operating under real regulatory pressure - Run point on the technical requirements and translate them into a roadmap engineering can build against - Work directly with regulatory and clinical teams at customer organizations to understand their workflows and compliance requirements at a granular level - Partner daily with engineering and design to scope, prioritize, and ship — this is a hands-on, in-the-weeds role - Define the metrics that matter for enterprise adoption, retention, and expansion, and use them to drive prioritization - Be the connective tissue between GTM, Sales, and Customer Success so the roadmap reflects what's actually closing and renewing deals - Represent the customer's voice in every cross-functional room you're in ## What We're Looking For - 7+ years of product management experience with a track record of shipping software - A builder's instinct — you'd rather be in the weeds with engineering than reviewing a roadmap deck - High agency and comfort with ambiguity; you can walk into a fast-moving, lightly-processed environment and bring structure without slowing anyone down - Genuine comfort working directly with founders and designers on 0-to-1 problems — you're energized by ambiguity, not looking for it to be resolved before you start and your communication style is clear and direct. - Strong plus: experience in life sciences, healthtech, or another regulated industry and real familiarity with regulatory, clinical, or pharma workflows Why Join Collate? Impact: Build systems and experiences that touch real patients and providers, improving healthcare outcomes. Ownership: Shape both our product experience and our engineering culture from the start. Learning: Collaborate with a uniquely interdisciplinary team—AI researchers, healthcare leaders, and experienced startup builders. Upside: Join a company early enough to have meaningful equity and career-defining impact The base salary range for this role is depending on experience and level (Tier 1, San Francisco) PM: $181-225K; Senior PM: $210-253K; Staff PM: $237-295K ## About Collate ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Collate is a unified platform for data discovery, observability, and governance, powered by OpenMetadata, that helps data teams build trust in data and accelerate AI and analytics. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $10M total funding) - **Headquarters**: Saratoga, California, United States - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Suresh Srinivas (Co-Founder & CEO); an unnamed Co-Founder & CTO (former architect at Uber, Hortonworks, and contributor to Apache Kafka/Storm) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Data management, metadata management, data governance, data observability - **Target customers**: B2B – data teams at Fortune 500 enterprises and innovative startups - **Mission or purpose**: “Take the chaos out of the lives of data practitioners by providing a single pane view of all your data, and empowering collaboration.” [getcollate.io/about](https://www.getcollate.io/about) ## Products & Services - **Collate Platform (SaaS)**: A unified semantic metadata graph that connects data assets, pipelines, metrics, and business concepts. Enables data discovery, observability, governance, and collaboration. - **Collate 2.0 (AI for Data Platform)**: Adds agentic automation and orchestration, a Context Layer (Context Center, Memory, Persona-Based Context, Context API/MCP Tooling), AI Analytics (natural language to governed dashboards with verifiable reasoning), and AI Studio for custom agents. [linkedin.com/company/collateinc](https://linkedin.com/company/collateinc) - **OpenMetadata (Open Source)**: The leading open standard for metadata management, created by the Collate team. Drives an active community of thousands globally. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $10M (Series A, August 2025, led by Venrock) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Venrock (lead Series A), Unusual Ventures (seed backer) - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 83.8% year-over-year to 57 employees; distributed across 7 countries (India, United States, Spain, United Kingdom, South Africa, France, Italy); active job postings; 12,600+ LinkedIn followers (+155% year-over-year); launched Collate 2.0 in August 2026 ## Competitive Advantages - **Built on OpenMetadata**: An open, community-driven standard that ensures interoperability with any data and AI system. - **Founding team pedigree**: Co-founders from Hortonworks (co-creators of Hadoop), Uber’s data infrastructure, and contributors to Apache Kafka, Storm, Atlas, and Databook. - **AI-native approach**: Context layer and agentic automation differentiate from legacy governance tools. - **Strong open-source community**: Thousands of contributors and adopters worldwide. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling the AI for Data platform (Collate 2.0), deepening agentic automation and orchestration, expanding the semantic metadata graph, and enabling trusted AI analytics. - **Growth direction**: Helping organizations move from fragmented metadata to a unified context layer that powers both human and AI data workers. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Grow Together” – collaboration-focused, transparent, and customer-obsessed. Small team with no bureaucracy; direct access to founders. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Fully remote company with a strong remote culture; headquarters in Saratoga, CA, and an office in Menlo Park. - **Notable perks**: Competitive salary and seed-stage equity; medical, dental, and vision insurance; work with smart, motivated peers; opportunity to shape engineering culture as an early employee. [getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer](https://www.getcollate.io/careers/software-engineer) ## Sources 1. [getcollate.io/about](https://www.getcollate.io/about) 2. [getcollate.io/careers](https://www.getcollate.io/careers) 3. [linkedin.com/company/collateinc](https://linkedin.com/company/collateinc) 4. [jobs.lever.co/collate](https://jobs.lever.co/collate/) 5. 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