Slope's mission is to make clinical trials boring. Boring clinical trials are better clinical trials. They have fewer surprises, faster outcomes, and stronger data integrity. They’re more likely to finish on time and on budget.
Slope makes clinical trials boring by using real-time data to orchestrate operational complexity. We help teams bring order, trust, and predictability to protocol execution and automation, ensuring every patient always have what they need and every job gets done.
Slope is hiring for our first Product Manager, reporting to the VP, Product. This role will lead the tactical planning and execution of high-quality product initiatives that make the Slope platform better, faster, and stronger. This position will closely collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, researchers & designers, and stakeholders & domain experts to help ensure that the platform truly meets the needs of customers in support of our business objectives.
The logistical inefficiencies mentioned in this article are mind boggling when compared to what we've come to expect in different industries. We all know healthcare is always a little behind the curve, but with clinical trials, we're talking decades.
For example: most clinical studies have no way to track samples going from sites to labs beyond a hope, prayer, and constellation of unconnected spreadsheets. The status quo is to write a 50 page lab manual and include a wall of text and bullets outlining a list of multiple stakeholders that need to be emailed a tracking number each time a sample is shipped. Not to mention there are days you really shouldn't ship samples. Labs have no idea when samples are going to show up. Seriously, samples just show up, they open the box expecting a piece of paper to identify the samples.
An incredible amount of perfectly good, usable samples get LOST or DESTROYED due to the fact that there's no way to track any of these samples or coordinate stakeholders. We're talking critical samples, like blood from kids with cancer. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Compare this sob story to the fact that I know in realtime where all the dumb shit I bought on Amazon is. The cognitive dissonance here is beyond comparison!
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About 8 years ago my brother and I were given a window into this problem. Being Amazon FBA sellers ourselves, we thought, "hey now that can't be too hard to fix" and thus began the wild journey of Slope [0]. What we learned working on this problem is that clinical research sites literally get crapped on left and right with ridiculous contracts & protocols written by people who don't understand the clinical setting or logistics in general. With each research site running 30-50 clinical studies and each of those studies having its own catalog of kits, shippers, and other inventory, it's no wonder why clinical research is so expensive! And this is just supply chain folks.
Slope started by making an inventory and sample management software to address the needs of sites and have worked backwards into selling this platform to Sponsors and CROs. While I have your attention, we're hiring a head of engineering now and will have a JD up for a product manager next week [1]. Thanks for reading!
People complain about industries with bureaucracy but nobody wants to take the hit and actually work in those industries. They want magically for their pay/benefits/culture incentives to align.
Exactly - like the OP you replied to - Slope are trying to hire a Head of engineering for a salary that competent mid/senior level engineers should be easily getting. It's no tech industry, and the work is less fun
I'm one of those that switched from tech into an industry that is steeped in bureaucracy, secrecy, red-tape, and whatever other term you can find. It's been about 10 years, but I occasionally lurk on HN to see people in tech are up to.
For several reasons, but basically I was burned out, and wanted a new challenge. Working in biotech manufacturing was also a way to make something that helps people.
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Slope's mission is to make clinical trials boring. Boring clinical trials are better clinical trials. They have fewer surprises, faster outcomes, and stronger data integrity. They’re more likely to finish on time and on budget.
Slope makes clinical trials boring by using real-time data to orchestrate operational complexity. We help teams bring order, trust, and predictability to protocol execution and automation, ensuring every patient always have what they need and every job gets done.
We are looking for a Head of Engineering to join the team, reporting the CTO. This role will provide strategic engineering leadership, oversee teams of developers, and maintain the software development lifecycle. Our app is a rails monolith running on AWS with k8s and Gitlab. Come join our product-centric team and work on a problem that matters!
Slope's mission is to make clinical trials boring. Boring clinical trials are better clinical trials. They have fewer surprises, faster outcomes, and stronger data integrity. They’re more likely to finish on time and on budget.
Slope makes clinical trials boring by using real-time data to orchestrate operational complexity. We help teams bring order, trust, and predictability to protocol execution and automation, ensuring every patient always have what they need and every job gets done.
Slope is hiring for our first Product Manager, reporting to the VP, Product. This role will lead the tactical planning and execution of high-quality product initiatives that make the Slope platform better, faster, and stronger. This position will closely collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, researchers & designers, and stakeholders & domain experts to help ensure that the platform truly meets the needs of customers in support of our business objectives.
Apply here: https://www.slope.io/jobs/product-manager