ZS Associates

Senior Product Manager

ZS Associates$120K — $145K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business or technology; MBA is a plus
  • 8+ years of B2B SaaS or enterprise software product management experience in life sciences or healthcare
  • Knowledge of incentive compensation concepts and ability to quickly adapt in complex domains
  • Familiarity with life sciences commercial data foundations
  • Understanding AI agent functionalities, especially in regulated workflows
  • Experience writing detailed requirements in an agile context
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort with data and logic evaluation

Responsibilities

  • Own the requirements and delivery roadmap for IC capability areas
  • Translate client requirements into detailed engineering-ready specifications
  • Collaborate with AI/ML and data engineering to define agent-enabled features
  • Conduct stakeholder discovery to identify and prioritize backlog items
  • Manage requirement changes during the delivery process
  • Participate in scrum ceremonies to clarify and resolve requirement ambiguities
  • Support integration requirements with relevant upstream and downstream systems
  • Track feature performance and incorporate learnings into the roadmap

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package for health and well-being
  • Robust skills-building programs and career progression paths
  • Opportunities for internal mobility and cross-functional skills development
  • Hybrid working model with flexibility to work from home and on-site
  • Travel opportunities to strengthen client relationships and enhance professional growth
Full Job Description
What you'll do: Senior Product Manager in the Platforms and Products will...

ZAIDYN is ZS' high growth product portfolio covering Commercial, Medical, Patient Engagement and Clinical verticals. The product is used by many 25 Large Pharma and Emerging Pharma and deployed to hundreds of thousands of Sales Reps across 70+ countries. ZS has been a pioneer in several areas with 40+ years of history and a strong reputation.

Incentive Compensation (IC) is one of the largest and most consequential commercial functions in Large Pharma, managing $Bs in annual payouts across hundreds of plans and tens of thousands of sales reps. Our IC product team is embedding agentic AI into the core of plan design, operations, and field support workflows, and this role is central to turning that roadmap into shipped, adopted capability.

What you'll bring:

We seek an experienced Senior Product Manager to own product execution for one or more capability areas within ZAIDYN Field Incentives. This person will work closely with IC domain leads, engineering, AI/ML, design, client success, and directly with client-side IC and commercial operations teams to turn business requirements and agent opportunities into detailed, buildable specifications - and see them through to adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Own the requirements and delivery roadmap for one or more IC capability areas (e.g., plan design, sales crediting, eligibility and roster management, data prep and reconciliation, goal-setting, or field inquiry/support)
  • Translate high-level business and client requirements into detailed, engineering-ready requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
  • Partner with AI/ML and data engineering to scope agent-enabled features within your capability area: define the job to be done, tool and data access needs, evaluation criteria, and audit/traceability requirements
  • Conduct discovery directly with client IC and commercial operations stakeholders to identify pain points, validate requirements, and prioritize backlog items
  • Conduct requirements review sessions with engineering, design, and client success; manage and track requirement changes through delivery
  • Participate in scrum ceremonies, providing clarity on requirements, resolving ambiguity, and signing off on acceptance criteria
  • Work with architects and senior engineers to understand platform components, data models, and integration points relevant to your area, and how changes to them affect IC calculations, reporting, and compliance
  • Support integration requirements with upstream and downstream systems relevant to IC (e.g., CRM/Veeva, alignment and roster feeds, sales data/Rx feeds, HR systems, MDM)
  • Understand core IC data foundations - Rx (TRx/NRx/NBRx), claims, specialty pharmacy, sample data, alignment files - well enough to write correct, unambiguous requirements and evaluate downstream impact
  • Track and monitor agent feature performance in production (e.g., accuracy, cycle-time reduction, deflection rate, FTE-hours saved) and feed learnings back into the roadmap
  • Support new client implementations and migrations by ensuring capability design and documentation translate cleanly for professional services teams
  • Communicate design decisions, trade-offs, and risks clearly to peers, engineering leadership, and client stakeholders
  • Contribute to and, where relevant, help mentor junior product managers or analysts on the team
  • Represent your capability area in internal roadmap reviews and, as needed, in client or industry-facing conversations


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, a technology discipline, or equivalent practical experience; MBA or advanced quantitative degree a plus
  • 8+ years of B2B SaaS or enterprise software product management experience, ideally in life sciences, healthcare, or a related regulated vertical
  • Working knowledge of incentive compensation concepts (plan design components, crediting, quota/goal-setting, eligibility/roster management) or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in a complex domain
  • Exposure to life sciences commercial data foundations - Rx (TRx/NRx/NBRx), claims, specialty pharmacy, sample data, alignment files - is a strong plus
  • Practical understanding of how AI agents are built: tool use, retrieval, orchestration, and evaluation harnesses, and a pragmatic sense of where agents help and where human-in-the-loop is required, especially in regulated, audit-sensitive workflows
  • Comfortable writing detailed, engineering-consumable requirements and user stories in an agile environment, and defending design decisions to architects and engineers
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams spanning engineering, design, data science, professional services, and client success
  • Experience engaging directly with client IT/operations teams to elicit and validate detailed requirements
  • Familiarity with system integration patterns (APIs, ETL, data contracts) relevant to enterprise SaaS platforms
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort with data - able to reason through calculation logic, edge cases, and data quality issues that affect IC outcomes
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate between business, technical, and client audiences
  • Additional Qualifications
  • Strong analytic and problem-solving ability; comfort with architecture diagrams, data flows, and detailed logic walkthroughs
  • Initiative and drive to own ambiguous problems end to end
  • Excellent organizational and task management skills across multiple concurrent workstreams
  • Outward-centric mindset - grounding prioritization in customer feedback, usability studies, and measurable KPIs
  • Genuine curiosity about the agentic AI space and how frontier model capabilities are changing what's possible in enterprise workflows
  • Ability to work effectively across global, cross-office teams
  • Client-first mentality, intense work ethic, and a collaborative, problem-solving approach
  • Fluency in English
  • Client-first mentality
  • Intense work ethic
  • Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach


How you'll grow:
  • Cross-functional skills development & custom learning pathways
  • Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities
  • Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution and role expansions


Perks & Benefits:

At ZS, your growth matters. We offer a comprehensive total rewards package that supports your health and well-being, financial future, time away, and professional development. With robust skills-building programs, multiple career progression paths, internal mobility, and a deeply collaborative culture, you'll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, expand your capabilities, and thrive as part of a global community. For details on total rewards in United States, visit ZS US office locations | Where we work | ZS.

Hybrid working model:

We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.

Travel:

Travel is a requirement at ZS for client facing ZSers; business needs of your project and client are the priority. While some projects may be local, all client-facing ZSers should be prepared to travel as needed. Travel provides opportunities to strengthen client relationships, gain diverse experiences, and enhance professional growth by working in different environments and cultures.

About ZS Associates

ZS is a professional services firm that works side by side with companies to help develop and deliver products that drive customer value and company results. From R&D to portfolio strategy, customer insights, marketing and sales strategy, operations and technology, we leverage our deep industry expertise and leading-edge analytics to create solutions that work in the real world. Our most valuable asset is our people?a fact that?s reflected in our values-driven organization in which new perspectives are integral and new ideas are celebrated. ZSers are passionately committed to helping companies and their customers thrive in industries ranging from healthcare and life sciences, to high-tech, financial services, travel and transportation, and beyond.
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