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# Senior Product Manager at Develop Health

- **Company:** Develop Health
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/develop-health/ed6b30ed-52d1-41a5-b31e-59a32a07ef41/application

**Skills:** Product Management, AI Product Development, LLM Evaluation, Healthcare Domain Knowledge, EHR Systems, Payer Portals, PBM Formularies, NCPDP Transactions, SQL, Data analysis, API concepts, Claude Code, Cursor

> Develop Health seeks a Senior Product Manager to build and improve AI-driven healthcare workflows, specifically benefit verification and prior authorization. This individual contributor role involves owning product surfaces, collaborating with engineers, and leveraging AI tools to ship high-impact improvements in a...

## Job description

Develop Health is on a mission to use AI to radically accelerate access to life-saving medications. By automating complex, manual healthcare processes—like benefit verification and prior authorization— we've been growing rapidly and over the past couple of years have helped over 2.5 million patients! We’re partnering with some of the largest pharmacy benefit managers and payers in the nation, revolutionizing how healthcare interactions occur by eliminating human delays and inefficiencies. Our small, elite team of founders and engineers have previously launched and exited successful healthcare startups including Rupa Health and Canvas Medical. We are now scaling rapidly following a major funding round.

## About The Role

We're hiring a Senior Product Manager to help build and improve product experiences across our platform. Reporting to the Head of Product, you will own defined workflows and work directly alongside a small pod of engineers to identify pain points, prototype solutions, and ship high-impact improvements. This is an individual contributor role for someone on their second or third PM job, not a first-time PM and not a people manager. We are looking for a smart generalist who can work through messy systems, incomplete documentation, and changing external workflows. Healthcare experience is helpful, but less important than investigative rigor, adaptability, and learning speed. This role is based in our Menlo Park office at least three days per week.

What You'll Do — Impact In Your First 3–6 Months

- Turn customer pain points into clear product opportunities by speaking regularly with clinical teams, customers, and internal stakeholders.
- Write clear, lightweight product requirements and partner closely with engineers to ship quickly.
- Prototype and ship product changes directly using AI-native tools like Claude Code — pushing frontend changes to the repo, skipping the Figma-to-handoff cycle entirely when speed matters.
- Improve the quality of our AI workflows through evaluation, testing, and feedback loops — for example, measuring how accurately our system routes prior authorization requests or surfaces the right insurance plan.

What You'll Own — Driving Growth Beyond 6 Months:

- Own defined product surfaces end-to-end, driving both product and technical decisions for your domain.
- Become a deep domain expert in complex healthcare systems — EHRs, payer portals, PBM formularies, NCPDP transactions — even when documentation is poor or nonexistent. Then translate that knowledge into product experiences that clinical users love.
- Use product and operational data to understand adoption, friction, and impact — and use those insights to set your own priorities.

What You'll Bring On Day 1:

- 3–6 years of product management experience, ideally in startups (HealthTech would be great) or other fast-moving environments.
- Likely on your second or third PM role, with experience shipping real product and working closely with engineers.
- Strong product judgment, prioritization, and communication skills.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments where external systems are poorly documented, fragmented, or constantly changing.
- Genuine interest in AI product development, including how to evaluate model outputs, design human-in-the-loop workflows, and understand where LLMs break down.

What You'll Need To Learn Quickly:

- How our platform automates benefit verification and prior authorization — the healthcare context that shapes every product decision.
- The external systems our product touches: EHRs, payer portals, PBM formularies, and NCPDP transaction standards.
- Our codebase, data model, and AI workflows — where quality is strong and where there's room to improve.

Bonus Points:

- Experience working on AI-powered products or LLM-based workflows in production.
- Comfort with SQL, basic data analysis, or API concepts.
- Experience prototyping or shipping product changes directly with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.).
- Experience in an early-stage startup where you had to move quickly and wear multiple hats.

What We Offer:

- $160,000 – $200,000 base salary plus meaningful early-stage equity.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage, plus flexible PTO.
- High-end workstation and tooling budget.

## About Develop Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Develop Health is an insurance AI platform that automates medication prior authorization and benefit verification for healthcare providers directly within their clinical workflow.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Menlo Park, California, United States (also listed as San Francisco, CA on LinkedIn)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Mel van Londen (Co-Founder & CEO) and Benjamin Easton (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare Technology (Prior Authorization Automation / Insurance AI)
- **Target customers**: B2B — healthcare providers, digital health companies, and physician practices (e.g., Calibrate); integrates with EHRs like athenahealth
- **Mission or purpose**: To clear the path for medication access by automating the prior authorization lifecycle, reducing administrative burden on clinicians, and getting patients to life-changing therapy faster.

## Products & Services
- **Prescription AI Platform**: An AI-powered system that automates the entire prior authorization process. It predicts medication coverage, cost, and requirements at the point of prescribing, automates benefit verification, completes and submits correct prior authorization forms, tracks status updates, and handles denial management by drafting clinical appeals.
- **Real-time Benefit Verification**: Provides instant visibility into plan-specific medication coverage, cost, and requirements directly within the EHR workflow.
- **Denial Management and Appeals**: If a prior authorization is denied, the system independently drafts and submits comprehensive clinical appeals to defend the treatment plan.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$33.7 million** across two rounds (Pre-Seed and Series A)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Wing Venture Capital (lead, Series A), South Park Commons (lead, Pre-Seed), Afore Capital (Pre-Seed), Analog Ventures, MTech Capital. Key integration partner: athenahealth.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+200% year-over-year** to 22 employees. Raised a **$17.6M Series A** in late 2025. Launched a major integration with **athenahealth (athenaOne)** in December 2025. Client Calibrate reported a **70% reduction** in hands-on prior authorization time.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep EHR Integration**: The platform is built to be invisible to the clinician, operating entirely within existing workflows (e.g., athenaOne) without requiring extra clicks or logins.
- **End-to-End Automation**: Covers the entire medication access journey from benefit verification to submission to appeals, reducing manual work by up to 90%.
- **Proven Outcomes**: Demonstrated real-world results, including reducing approval time from one week to under one day, and a 5–7x reduction in the number of prior authorizations required per member.
- **Data Integrity & Compliance**: Maintains high standards of healthcare compliance (HIPAA, etc.) for security and privacy.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand EHR Integrations**: Following the athenahealth integration, the company is likely focused on integrating with other major EHR platforms to reach more providers.
- **Scale Commercial Adoption**: Using the Series A funding to grow the customer base beyond early adopters (like Calibrate) into larger health systems and independent practices.
- **Deepen AI Capabilities**: Continuing to improve the AI’s ability to predict coverage and automate complex clinical evidence extraction from patient notes.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: Mission-driven work directly addressing a major cause of physician burnout (the average physician completes 43 prior authorizations per week). The team is small and growing fast.
- **Work Model**: **In-Office** (Menlo Park, CA). Employees work from a physical office.
- **Team & Growth**: A lean team of 22 with a strong technical core (29% in technical roles). High growth trajectory (+200% YoY headcount) suggests opportunities for impact and career advancement.
- **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but being an early-stage, well-funded startup (Series A) in a high-impact space typically offers significant ownership, equity, and the chance to shape the product and culture.

## Sources
1. [develophealth.ai](https://www.develophealth.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/develop-health)
3. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/develop-health)
4. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/develop-health)
5. [Ashby Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/develop-health)

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