--- title: 'Senior Product Manager at Rivia' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-manager-rivia-zurich-6fa055hb5bjg' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-14' --- # Senior Product Manager at Rivia - **Company:** Rivia - **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/rivia/am9icG9zdDpKk-wEPnFJyEb4_rrEf59W ## Job description ## About Rivia [Rivia](http://rivia.com/) is a technology company building a data engine that powers the future of clinical trial intelligence. Rivia was founded on the belief that new drugs can be brought to market more successfully with a fraction of today's capital. Biotechs are the source of most therapeutic innovation, yet clinical development is constantly constrained by fragmented data and outdated tooling.  Rivia unifies clinical trial data at scale through a core engine built as a reusable intelligence layer, comprising hundreds of configurations and trial-specific logic, independent of source structure. This vertical stack of data engine, workflows, and agents creates a distinct advantage in how trials are operated. Over the past two years, European and US based biotechs running global clinical trials on Rivia have demonstrated measurable impact, from earlier understanding of therapeutic potential to significantly more efficient trial execution. In March 2026, Rivia raised its $15M Series A led by Earlybird Venture Capital. Rivia’s ambition is to become the standard infrastructure for modern drug development, transforming how trials are executed end-to-end. ## About the Product Team You’ll be Rivia's first product hire, reporting to the CTO. Today, everything Product is owned by the Rivia founders and carried out Engineering. Your job is to take it over, build the function, and make shipping high quality products repeatable. As Rivia scales, there is a clear path to leading a PM team. ## The Role As Senior Product Manager at Rivia, you own the path from idea to adopted feature. Driving alignment across Engineering, Client Solutions and founders to build products that have relevant impact, from customer discovery, mockups, specs, weekly refinement, launches, and measurement of KPIs. You’ll own several products across Rivia’s platform. This requires holistic understanding of market and customer needs for complex prioritisation decisions. To do that you’ll need to be deep in the details: talking to customers, experts, writing specs, monitoring usage, keeping delivery moving. You also build the product management function itself, with light processes (PRDs, documentation, releases, prioritization) that a future product team builds on, and you own product coherence: the principles that keep features consistent as the platform grows. Working Model: This role is based on-site in our Zürich office. What Excites You - Shipping products that help bring new therapies to market. Our customers entrust us with their patients, we take that very seriously. - Working directly with customers, including clinical research and biotech teams running global clinical trials, to understand problems and turn them into delightful solutions. - Defining product management foundation, from first principles, as the first product hire. - Joining a team that already works AI-native: agentic features run in production on live trials, customers connect their own agents through the Rivia MCP, and much of the roadmap ahead is AI products. You work the same way, from AI-built mockups to agent-driven analysis. ## Responsibilities - Product Execution: Own the full product lifecycle for your scope: discovery, spec, delivery, and post-launch measurement. - Drive Cross-Team Coordination: Align Engineering, Design,w and Clinical stakeholders to hit delivery deadlines. Work closely with GTM to synchronize assets and commercial readiness with each release. - Channel Customers need: Run structured feedback loops with customers and internal stakeholders, ensuring their needs are prioritised and our products are usable, reliable and high quality. - Oversee a Multi-Product Portfolio: Weigh competing priorities across the product line, deliberately direct your own attention and your teams' bandwidth, and make sure customers experience the products as one coherent whole. - Own Product performance: Set KPIs and targets before building, measure feature health after launch, and make kill, iterate, or double-down calls on the data. - AI-Powered Product Development: Use AI agents in your daily work, including AI-generated mockups to accelerate discovery, and identify where AI unlocks new value for clinical teams. - Product Function Building: Set up light processes (PRDs, documentation, release process, prioritization) that the team actually follows. What Excites Us - 7+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS with technical products - You have been the first or sole PM at a B2B startup and built the product function around an engineer-led team - Has taken at least one product from idea to production with demonstrable adoption - Hands-on product analytics: built measurement from zero with Mixpanel, Amplitude, or similar - Has designed and run product processes (refinement, discovery, launches) that engineering teams actually kept - AI-native way of working: uses AI agents in daily product work, with concrete examples - Comfortable being the only product person: self-directed, builds the function while running it - Clinical trials, drug development, or health data experience is a strong plus. Exceptional PMs without it are welcome. - Bonus - Former lead or head of product who wants to build hands-on again - Experience shipping for expert or scientific users ## Our Values At Rivia, we are committed to excellence, continuous learning, and the success of both our customers and our team. If you are driven to exceed targets, eager to shape the future of clinical trials, and passionate about making a meaningful difference in the biotech industry, Rivia is the place for you. - In it to Win it: Approach every challenge with determination, resilience, and a drive, aiming for the best outcomes and solutions. - Embrace change: We see change as an opportunity for growth, innovation, and improvement, continuously evolving to stay one step ahead. - Why not?: Asking why not, instead of why, allows us to show our curiosity, allowing us to challenge assumptions and explore new possibilities. - Find the gap: We are curious and we proactively approach identifying opportunities and solving problems before they arise. - Collective accountability: We are one team, on one mission and we are committed to shared responsibilities and mutual support, enabling trust and collaboration. - Value add solutions: Know better. Act better. We are dedicated to delivering meaningful and impactful results. ## About Rivia ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Rivia builds a unified intelligence layer for clinical trials, using AI agents to transform fragmented trial data into structured, actionable insights for biotechs and pharmaceutical companies. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Erik Scalfaro (CEO), Tiago Kieliger (CTO), Henk Streefkerk (Chief Medical Officer) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Healthcare IT / Clinical Trial Intelligence - **Target customers**: Biotech and pharmaceutical companies running clinical trials (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the leading unified clinical trial data platform, driving therapeutic innovation through the power of technology. The company’s vision is to help bring new therapies to market at a fraction of today’s cost. ## Products & Services - **Rivia Core Intelligence Layer**: Unifies fragmented clinical trial data from any vendor or file into a single, structured foundation mapped to protocol logic, visits, and endpoints. Serves as the base for all workflows and agents. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/) - **Rivia Detect (Agentic Data Quality)**: AI agents that continuously run clinical checks across all data, cluster issues into root causes, propose corrective actions, and automate resolution workflows (e.g., drafting queries, preparing site communication). [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/) - **Rivia Spark (Visual Intelligence)**: A natural-language interface that transforms user questions into dynamic graphs and cohorts, enabling instant data exploration. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/) - **Rivia Spark Patient Profile Assistant**: An AI-powered conversational agent embedded in the Patient Profile to answer questions about individual patients regarding adverse events, biomarkers, visits, and trends. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metrics**: - **Total Funding**: $18.2M ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/rivia-sa)) - Series A (March 2026): $15M led by Earlybird Venture Capital - Seed Round (June 2024): $3.2M led by Speedinvest - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Earlybird Venture Capital (Lead, Series A), Speedinvest (Lead, Seed) - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 66.7% year-over-year to 22 employees, with a 500% increase in job postings year-over-year. The platform has been adopted by European and US biotechs running global clinical trials, demonstrating measurable impact in trial execution efficiency and therapeutic understanding. ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified data layer**: Rivia’s platform ingests data from any vendor or file format, harmonizing it into reusable, trial-specific models—solving a major fragmentation problem in clinical trials. - **Agentic AI**: The platform deploys specialized AI agents for data quality, visual intelligence, and patient profiling, moving beyond simple dashboards to autonomous workflow execution. - **Speed of deployment**: Rivia claims customers can go live in under 20 days by leveraging existing data access methods and automated integration. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/) - **Deep domain expertise**: Founded by a team combining technical and medical expertise (CEO, CTO, and Chief Medical Officer), giving the product credibility in a highly regulated industry. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling the platform**: Growing the team across engineering, AI, sales, and people functions to expand product capabilities and customer reach. - **Embedding intelligence**: Continuing to develop and refine AI agents that operate across the entire clinical trial lifecycle. - **Expanding market presence**: Building on existing traction with European and US biotechs to capture a larger share of the clinical trial software market. ## Why Work Here - **Impactful mission**: Employees are directly involved in accelerating the development of new therapies and getting better treatments to patients faster. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/careers) - **Culture of ownership and collaboration**: Employee testimonials highlight growth, ownership, and a collaborative environment that encourages continuous learning and innovation. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/careers) - **Fast-growing startup**: With 66.7% headcount growth, 500% growth in job postings, and a recent $15M Series A, the company is in a strong growth phase. - **Work policy**: Hybrid model, with primary offices in Zurich, Switzerland, and a smaller presence in Blandford, Massachusetts. Typical time on-site is expected. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rivia) - **Open roles (as of recent data)**: Senior Frontend (Full-stack) Engineer, Senior AI Engineer, Quality Assurance (Compliance) Manager, Head of People, Account Executive, Senior Backend (Full-stack) Engineer, and Solutions Engineer. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/rivia-sa) ## Sources 1. [rivia.com](https://www.rivia.com/) 2. [rivia.com/about](https://www.rivia.com/about) 3. [rivia.com/careers](https://www.rivia.com/careers) 4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/rivia) 5. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/rivia-sa) 6. 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