Product Ops Manager

Founding Product Operations Manager

Ambience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflow, built to reduce administrative burden and protect revenue integrity at the point of care. Trusted by top health systems across North America, Ambience's platform is live across outpatient, emergency, and inpatient settings, supporting more than 100 specialties with real-time, coding-aware documentation. The platform integrates directly with Epic, Oracle Cerner, athenahealth, and other major EHRs. Founded in 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma, Ambience is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Oak HC / FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and other leading investors.

Join us in the endeavor of accelerating the path to safe & useful clinical super intelligence by becoming part of our community of problem solvers, technologists, clinicians, and innovators.

The Role

We're looking for our founding Product Operations Manager to build and scale the systems that power Ambience's product development. You'll be the connective tissue between Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Go-to-Marketensuring predictability, clarity, and transparency across our roadmap, release timing, and success metrics.

This is a highly visible, cross-functional role where you'll define how Ambience builds, ships, and learns. From shaping our Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) to launching our AI Lab and Customer Early Access Program, you'll enable our teams to move faster, learn continuously, and deliver products that delight clinicians and health systems.

Our Product roles are hybrid in our SF office 3x / wk.

What You'll Do

Drive roadmap & release excellence

Establish a predictable release operating model with Product & Engineering, ensuring roadmap clarity and visibility for all stakeholders.

Turn feedback into insights

Build structured intake channels for clinician and customer feedback, partner with PMs to translate signals into insights, and launch Ambience's AI Lab and Early Access Program to accelerate innovation and customer engagement.

Define the PDLC & enablement playbooks

Create Ambience's Product Development Lifecycle with clear gates (Discovery, Alpha, Beta, GA) and exit criteria. Develop enablement playbooks and materials to help Product Managers, GTM, and CS teams consistently and confidently bring features to market.

Measure product success

Build BI dashboards to track adoption, usage, ROI, and clinical outcomesensuring success metrics are the trusted source of truth for executives and cross-functional teams.

Who You Are

A systems thinker

You design scalable processes and frameworks, not one-off fixes, and bring clarity to complex, ambiguous problems.

A cross-functional leader

You can align Product, Engineering, GTM, and CS around a shared plan, influencing without direct authority.

A strong communicator

Whether presenting a roadmap update, explaining a process change, or sharing data insights, you tailor your message to any audience.

Analytical and data-driven

You're fluent in building dashboards and translating raw product data into actionable insights.

An enablement-oriented partner

You ensure everyonefrom PMs to executivescan confidently communicate and drive adoption of new releases.

Experienced

You bring 6+ years in Product Operations, Technical Program Management, or Product Management, with a proven record of building operational systems.

Bonus points for experience in enterprise SaaS, running early access programs or innovation labs, and working in mid-sized, high-growth B2B startups.

Pay Transparency

The base compensation for this role is approximately $180,000 $220,000 per year, excluding equity or bonus targets. We've intentionally allocated a wider range so that candidates have more flexibility to choose the desired cash / equity split that works for them. Philosophically, we lean towards generous equity grants so that our team truly gets to share in the impact they create.

Are you outside of the range? We encourage you to still apply : we take an individualized approach to ensure that compensation accounts for all of the life factors that matter for each candidate.

What Success Looks Like

Features reach 50% adoption in under 8 weeks, with first feedback cycles starting within 48 hours of release.

Clinician and customer insights are systematically captured and drive product decisions.

Ambience's PDLC and enablement playbooks are institutionalized and trusted across the company.

Dashboards and product metrics become the go-to source of truth for leadership.

Being at Ambience

An opportunity to work with cutting edge AI technology, on a product that dramatically improves the quality of life for healthcare providers and the quality of care they can provide to their patients

Dedicated budget for personal development, including access to world class mentors, advisors, and an in-house executive coach

Work alongside a world-class, diverse team that is deeply mission aligned

Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company

Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage, quarterly retreats, unlimited PTO, and a 401(k) plan