Eli Lilly and Company
healthcare
PrincipalProductManager—CortexPlatform
“Principal Product Manager — Cortex Platform at Eli Lilly and Company. Skills: AI roadmap, enterprise-grade platforms at scale, developer experience, technical fluency, modern AI, agentic patterns. Define and maintain your roadmap, making prioritization calls that balance near-term developer needs with long-term platform architecture. Own the developer experience: how teams onboard, discover capabilities, integrate models and tools, and get unblocked”
What You'll Achieve.
Developer adoption and active usage across Lilly teams; Platform reliability, latency, and incident metrics; Capability coverage relative to team demand and industry benchmarks; Developer satisfaction and time-to-productivity; Business and scientific impact enabled by platform capabilities
Industry & Context.
make prioritization calls; make hard build-vs-buy decisions; translate complex platform architecture into clear product requirements; understand the technical tradeoffs
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, 8+ years of product management experience, with meaningful work in platforms, developer tools, or AI systems, Experience shipping platforms adopted at enterprise scale, Prior experience as an engineer, ML engineer, or software architect
Nice to Have
Advanced degree preferred, Experience delivering executive-level presentations and earning investment for technical roadmaps, Demonstrated experience building and shipping enterprise-grade platforms at scale—platforms trusted by thousands of developers, where resilience, API design, and developer experience are non-negotiable, Deep technical fluency: you can engage meaningfully with architecture decisions, understand tradeoffs, and earn the respect of engineers, Genuine command of modern AI: LLMs, tool/function calling, RAG, agentic frameworks, MCP, and the emerging orchestration landscape, intuition for what it means to be truly agentic—and the conviction to push the organization past surface-level AI adoption, Proven judgment on build-vs-buy calls, Exceptional written communication: you write PRDs that teams can build from and executive narratives that earn alignment, Comfort presenting to senior leadership, Solid grasp of enterprise security: authentication, authorization, audit, and the constraints of regulated environments, Bias for action and confidence operating in ambiguity
What You'll Do.
Define and maintain your roadmap
making prioritization calls that balance near-term developer needs with long-term platform architecture
Own the developer experience: how teams onboard
discover capabilities
integrate models and tools
Make hard build-vs-buy decisions across model providers
infrastructure components
and third-party integrations
Translate complex platform architecture into clear product requirements—written PRDs are a first-class deliverable in this role
Stay obsessively current on the AI landscape—what Anthropic
and the open-source community are shipping—and bring that intelligence to roadmap and architecture decisions
Press the organization toward truly agentic patterns: push past simple LLM integrations toward multi-step reasoning
and autonomous workflows
Represent the platform in executive settings: build the narrative
and earn support for the roadmap
Partner directly with engineers—you understand the technical tradeoffs and can engage at the level of architecture
not just requirements
complete Product Requirements Documents for every major platform capability
Write executive briefings and platform reviews that communicate technical complexity without losing the strategic thread
Maintain living documentation that keeps developers
and leadership aligned as the platform evolves
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner directly with engineers; Maintain living documentation that keeps developers, engineers, and leadership aligned as the platform evolves
Communication Scope
build the narrative; present the data; Author clear, complete Product Requirements Documents; Write executive briefings and platform reviews; communicate technical complexity without losing the strategic thread; Maintain living documentation
Process & Methodology
Define and maintain your roadmap, making prioritization calls
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