Product Lead - Connect at Photon

New York, New York, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

29 Jul, 26

Salary

220000.0

Posted On

30 Apr, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Product Management, API Development, Platform Strategy, System Design, Integration, Onboarding, Developer Experience, B2B SaaS, Technical Fluency, Roadmap Planning, Stakeholder Management, Cross-functional Leadership, SQL, Healthcare Systems, EHR Integrations

Industry

Software Development

Description

Location: NYC Metro Area (Williamsburg Office, 3+ days/week) Reports to: CTO COMPANY MISSION Photon gives patients ownership of prescriptions. Our platform enables clinicians to send prescriptions to patients via text, which saves them time by allowing their patients to shop between pharmacies. The vision is to help consumers save money by increasing transparency. WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR We’re looking for a Product Lead to own the platform layer that powers how customers integrate with Photon. This includes onboarding tooling, APIs, developer experience, and the systems that enable health systems, digital health companies, and enterprise partners to seamlessly plug into Photon’s prescribing and marketplace infrastructure. You’ll define how customers get up and running, how they scale, and how we make prescribing workflows feel simple and reliable through great tooling and abstractions. Working closely with the CTO, this is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of product, engineering, and commercial teams, with direct impact on Photon’s growth and expansion. If you enjoy turning messy, high-stakes integrations into clean, scalable systems—and care deeply about developer and customer experience—this role is for you. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES * Own the vision and roadmap for Photon Connect, including embedded elements, APIs, onboarding flows, portals, and integration tooling * Design and ship scalable systems that enable customers to integrate quickly and reliably. improving time-to-live for new customers, reducing friction across onboarding, configuration, and go-live * Define and evolve Photon’s API surface area, ensuring consistency, usability, and long-term scalability * Establish best practices around versioning, documentation, and platform reliability * Work with commercial and operations teams to understand customer needs and translate them into product requirements REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS * 5+ years of Product Management experience, with ownership over technical or platform products * Experience building or owning APIs, platforms, or integration-heavy products * Strong technical fluency—you’re comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding system design tradeoffs * Track record of shipping products that balance flexibility with simplicity * Experience improving onboarding funnels, especially in B2B or enterprise contexts * Ability to navigate ambiguity and define structure in complex systems * Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Background in B2B SaaS, fintech, or infrastructure/platform products * Experience with healthcare systems, EHR integrations, or regulated environments * Experience building developer-facing products (SDKs, docs, sandbox environments) * Comfort working with data tools or querying systems directly (e.g., SQL) * Experience leveraging AI in workflows WHY JOIN US Photon is reimagining how prescriptions move through the healthcare system—making it simpler, faster, and more transparent for patients, providers, and pharmacies alike. You’ll: * Take on a role with meaningful ownership, shaping how an early-stage company supports, grows, and learns from its customers. * Work closely with leadership across Engineering, Sales, and Operations to influence the direction of the business and product. * Help modernize how prescriptions are integrated into clinical workflows—making healthcare simpler and more human. * Be part of one of the weirdest, funnest, most driven teams in health tech. * Competitive salary, benefits, and meaningful equity. OUR VALUES 🍕🐀 Be a Pizza Rat – We’re ambitious subway dwellers. It’s our slice and we’re not letting go. 🍚 🍣 Make Rice – We don’t prepare fish until we’ve mastered rice. Quality is in details. 🛰️ 🌎 Put it in Orbit – We know success happens well after lift-off. The rocket isn’t our mission. 🔍 🏴‍☠️ Seek Buried Treasure – We’re digging in unexpected places. Our adventure has meaning. 🍄 🌒 Grow in Darkness – We’re thriving amidst forest decay. Our day in the sun will come. PAY TRANSPARENCY The estimated base salary for this role is $180,000 – $220,000 USD annually. Actual compensation will depend on skills, qualifications, and experience, and includes equity and benefits. At our stage, we place significant value on equity as part of total compensation.

Responsibilities

The Product Lead will own the vision and roadmap for Photon Connect, managing APIs, onboarding tooling, and integration systems. They will work cross-functionally with engineering and commercial teams to design scalable systems that improve customer time-to-live and platform reliability.