Member Technical Staff - Product

Member of the Technical Staff - Product

Breakout Ventures – Cambridge, MA

Posted on Jun 16, 2025

We’re leveraging AI to solve one of the most consequential challenges in the pursuit of technical progress: the distribution of scientific innovations to the real world. We’re well‑funded with top investors and are building a world‑class team. For innovations to have broad impact, they must scale beyond the lab. We’re determined to support a new paradigm that ensures new scientific innovations can be more robust, interpretable, and transferable.

• Lead qualitative and quantitative research efforts to understand user workflows, pain points, and tacit practices—both in our internal labs and those of our partners.
• Translate messy, real‑world insights into structured requirements that drive product design, system architecture, and AI model development.
• Develop user personas, journey maps, and usability testing frameworks to inform iterative product development cycles.
• Bring cross‑functional initiatives from concept to delivery. Establish milestones, communication cadences, and decision‑making frameworks.
• Become customer obsessed. Initiate, support, and lead program execution with external partners and collaborators to capture, document, and deliver results.
• Develop intuitive, usable tools and UIs in partnership with the engineering team to support scientist workflows.
• Partner with scientists, engineers, and designers to prototype and evaluate interfaces and tools that improve documentation, decision‑making, and experimental reproducibility.
• Help define and implement product standards for usability, accessibility, and cross‑platform cohesion across the experimental ecosystem.
• Identify opportunities to reduce friction in data capture, tacit knowledge transfer, and human‑AI collaboration.
• Support customer deployments by embedding into partner labs, piloting new workflows, troubleshooting edge cases, and capturing lessons learned.
• Support onboarding and training with customer‑embedded scientists to ensure product adoption and feedback loops are tight and actionable.

• Experience in human‑computer interaction (HCI), cognitive science, UX research, product design, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ideas into functional prototypes. Ability to build quickly, test often, and refine thoughtfully—balancing prototypes with production quality as the company scales.
• Demonstrated ability to lead user research and synthesize findings into actionable design or product decisions—especially in complex or technical domains.
• Experience designing or improving tools for expert users, particularly in scientific, technical, or data‑intensive environments.
• Comfort working at the intersection of product, engineering, and domain‑specific users (e.g., bench scientists, ML researchers).
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills—able to advocate for customer needs while navigating technical and strategic constraints.

• Experience in a scientific or research‑intensive environment—academic labs, biotech R&D, national labs, or similar.
• Familiarity with experimental workflows, lab automation, or scientific instrumentation.
• Experience building AI/ML‑powered products from ideation to deployment.
• Startup or early‑stage experience preferred; comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration is a must.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to cross‑functional teams and collaborate on projects spanning AI, biology, and product.
• Ideal candidates are located within commuting distance from Cambridge, MA.

• Opportunity to join a creative and mission‑oriented founding team and build with us, from the ground up.
• Bias for action and obsession with solving our customers’ real problems.
• Love for bold and audacious science, enabling moonshots, and motivation to work with and across the entire ecosystem.
• Full HR compensation stack to include competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

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