Head of Product Development

About PharmSight

PharmSight is a rapidly growing strategic consulting firm dedicated to advancing bio-pharmaceutical companies. We provide bespoke solutions that tackle critical business challenges, specializing in competitive intelligence, forecasting, launch strategies, and marketing analytics. As our expertise expands across multiple therapeutic areas, we’re seeking a Senior Analyst to deliver timely and impactful insights for our clients worldwide.

Why join PharmSight?

• Opportunity to build AI-first enterprise products from the ground up
• High ownership and direct collaboration with founders
• Work on cutting-edge AI and LLM use-cases
• Fast-moving and innovation-driven environment
• Opportunity to shape the future engineering team and product roadmap

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader with strong experience in building B2B SaaS products and AI-enabled platforms.

This is not a pure management role. The ideal candidate should be capable of:

• Designing scalable architectures
• Writing production-grade code
• Leading engineering teams
• Converting business requirements into product roadmaps
• Building AI-first enterprise solutions

You will work closely with founders, clients, product stakeholders, and the engineering team to build next-generation AI products and platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Product & Engineering Leadership

• Lead end-to-end product development lifecycle
• Define scalable system architecture and engineering standards
• Translate business requirements into technical execution plans
• Drive rapid MVP development and iterative product releases
• Build reusable product frameworks and accelerators

Hands-On Technical Ownership

• Contribute directly to backend/frontend development when needed
• Review code, architecture, APIs, and deployment pipelines
• Design scalable multi-tenant SaaS systems
• Ensure security, scalability, reliability, and performance

AI & Data Solutions

• Build and scale AI-powered applications using LLMs and RAG architectures
• Design intelligent document ingestion, search, and chatbot systems
• Work on AI orchestration, prompt workflows, embeddings, and vector databases
• Integrate AI models and APIs into enterprise workflows

Team Building & Collaboration

• Mentor and grow engineering teams
• Hire and structure future product engineering teams
• Collaborate with product, analytics, and business stakeholders
• Work directly with enterprise clients when required

Requirements

Technical Skills

Strong experience in:

• Full-stack development
• React / Next.js
• Python and/or Node.js
• REST APIs and microservices
• SQL & NoSQL databases
• Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with AI/LLM ecosystem:
• OpenAI APIs or equivalent LLM platforms
• RAG architectures
• Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, etc.)
• LangChain / LlamaIndex / AI orchestration frameworks
• AI-enabled enterprise applications

Good understanding of:

• Multi-tenant SaaS architecture
• Authentication & RBAC systems
• Enterprise-grade deployments
• Scalable backend systems
• Observability and monitoring

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building products from 0 → 1
• Startup or product company background
• Experience in B2B SaaS products
• Prior exposure to healthcare/pharma analytics is a plus
• Strong product thinking and execution mindset
• Ability to work in fast-moving environments with high ownership

What We Are Looking For

We value people who:

• Take ownership
• Can independently build and ship products
• Think like product builders, not just developers
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapid execution
• Can balance speed with scalable engineering

Join Us

Candidates who are available to join immediately or within a short timeframe will be given preference. Interested? Apply now, and we’ll get back to you soon!