Join General Medicine as VP Product to build a healthcare store and lead product development from the ground up.
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Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
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The VP Product at General Medicine will lead the establishment of the product function, defining processes and roadmaps while managing engineering resources across various healthcare initiatives. This role requires a strong background in product leadership, particularly in startup environments, with a focus on building products from the ground up and navigating complex trade-offs. Ideal candidates will have experience in healthcare or regulated industries, and possess the ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders. The position is pivotal as the company expands its innovative healthcare store.
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The round was led by Vineeta Agarwala, MD, PhD, of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and is the largest investment to date from a16z's bio + health team. Read the announcement.
Healthcare needs a store. People should be able to see prices, understand their options, and get advice from clinicians as easily as they shop for anything else. That's what we're building, and this Series B will help us expand the store and reach more customers across the United States.
To learn more, read CEO TJ Parker's post on LinkedIn and the a16z team's post on Substack.
If this sounds interesting, we're hiring. Help us build the store.
General Medicine is building a healthcare store that makes it delightfully simple to access the best care in the world. We make it easy for customers to shop for any product or service in healthcare, compare upfront cash and insurance prices, understand if the service is right for them and purchase it.
Behind that simplicity is complex infrastructure: payer integrations, pricing logic, eligibility systems, reconciliation workflows, and financial rails. We're building the system that makes transact-able healthcare possible.
We're hiring a VP Product to build our product function from the ground up. This is the founding product leadership seat: you'll set how we roadmap, how we prioritize, how ideas get pitched and greenlit, and how product and engineering work together, before writing most of that playbook yourself.
This role reports directly to the CPO and sits on the senior leadership team.
You'll own the roadmap across consumer experience, clinical/provider tooling, and pricing and payer infrastructure, allocating engineering capacity across these areas. You will drive priorities and build alignment across the CPO, Medical Director, and senior leadership team.
Build the function
Establish the product org: hiring, processes, review cadences, and operating rhythms
Establish how we write specs, define success metrics, run experiments, and decide what to build next
Define complex initiatives—such as new consumer experiences, payer integrations, or clinical workflows. Turn those into execution plans with clear owners.
Own the roadmap
Set and evolve a product roadmap across multiple focus areas at once, balancing consumer experience, clinical delivery, and the pricing and payer infrastructure underneath both
Allocate engineering capacity and justify trade-offs across competing priorities
Balance near-term delivery with core architecture and infrastructure needs
Sell the vision
Develop business cases for proposed features, including resource needs, expected outcomes, and timing
Champion initiatives with the CPO, Medical Director, CFO, and VP Engineering
Communicate product strategy internally to cross-functional teams and externally to partners, payers, and investors
Ship
Write specs, review designs, and resolve day-to-day blockers for engineering
Partner with engineering leadership on sprint planning, sequencing, and capacity estimation using customer and care-team insights
You have founder or early product leadership experience taking products from 0 to 1. You have acquired initial users, pitched stakeholders, and established core operational workflows in ambiguous environments.
Specifically:
You've built and shipped a product from 0 to 1, whether as a founder, an early product hire, or in a similarly ownership-heavy role
Demonstrated ability to build data-backed business cases and secure buy-in from leadership
You've managed a roadmap across more than one workstream at a time and made real tradeoffs about where limited engineering capacity goes
You've built product process and team structure from scratch rather than inheriting it
You come from a startup background and are comfortable with ambiguity, thin resourcing, and moving fast
Clear written and verbal communication skills to align engineering, clinical, and business stakeholders
Nice to have:
Healthcare, healthtech, or another regulated-industry background
Experience in a marketplace or two-sided business model
A quantitative or technical background that lets you go deep with engineering when needed
This is a hybrid role in SF
Customer obsessed: We stay close to real needs through thoughtful research and continuous feedback from our care teams - the same instinct that shapes how you'll sequence and ship the roadmap above.
Design led & data informed: We seek simplicity, ship craftsmanship, and validate with data.
Operationally grounded: We build tools that make our care teams faster and more accurate, not just prettier.
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