Thalamus is the market leader in graduate medical education recruitment technology, empowering over 8,000 residency and fellowship programs at 800+ health systems and all new physicians throughout the US annually. As we expand beyond GME into broader physician recruitment, our unique dataset—spanning the full profiles of residency/fellowship applicants and programs—positions us to revolutionize hiring in healthcare through AI/ML and data-driven insights. This furthers our mission to ensure the right doctor ends up at the right hospital to treat the right patients.
We are expanding our Product team and looking for an exceptional Product Manager, Customer Support. This is a rare opportunity to lead a critical domain within a high-growth, product-led, mission-driven, and growth-stage company tackling one of the most expensive and urgent workforce challenges in healthcare.
As the Product Manager, Customer Support at Thalamus, you will own the support experience end-to-end, managing a team of 8 support specialists and transforming reactive support signals into scalable product solutions. You'll work across Customer Support, Product, and Engineering to identify friction points, reduce ticket volume, and improve the product experience for thousands of users. Your mandate is to reduce operational pain while improving user outcomes through systems, tooling, and design thinking.
At Thalamus, we value ownership, empathy, and a builder’s mindset. If you are passionate about scaling internal impact, enhancing user journeys, and leading high-leverage teams at the intersection of product and customer experience, we invite you to join us on our mission to “Connect the Docs.”
What You Will Achieve
Own the support experience as a product domain. Serve as the internal expert on support-related user journeys. Translate customer pain points and support trends into product opportunities, and drive clarity around which issues are best solved through product changes versus process or content
Drive scalable support strategies through design thinking. Develop solutions that reduce inbound ticket volume and improve user success—such as in-product education, automation, or experience design tweaks. Define success metrics and ship iterative improvements that deliver measurable impact
Prioritize and execute on cross-functional fixes. Partner with Customer Support, Product, and Engineering to triage top support drivers, drive resolution timelines, and ensure the roadmap reflects the most urgent customer experience needs
Identify and share emerging patterns. Monitor and audit ticket trends and responses, and identify recurring friction points. Turn qualitative and quantitative insights into upstream product recommendations
Ensure resolution through accountability. Track unresolved issues to completion, escalate appropriately, and own the feedback loop back to internal teams and customers
Care for customer outcomes. Elevate the support team’s empathy, responsiveness, and impact on customer trust and satisfaction
Coach and lead. Manage a high-performing support team of 8, reinforcing a culture of ownership, care, and accountability.
You Should Have
6–8+ years of experience in product management, product operations, or customer experience within SaaS or B2B environments
Experience managing and coaching a support or operations team, ideally 5–10 people, with a track record of delivering high team performance and engagement
Strong customer empathy with a bias toward resolving pain points through scalable product solutions
Familiarity with support tooling, ticketing systems, and support analytics, and the ability to turn insights into action
Comfort owning the full lifecycle of internal or user-facing features from problem definition to roadmap to delivery
Clear, structured communication skills, specifically when translating technical details for non-technical stakeholders
A mindset of ownership and accountability ... you thrive in ambiguity and step up to solve problems
- Experience rolling out support agents or AI assistants, including defining use cases, measuring effectiveness, and ensuring a smooth handoff between human and automated support
- Fluency in tools like Zendesk, Intercom, Linear, Jira, or similar platforms for support and product management
Experience working as a Product Manager focused on customer support, CX tooling, or internal enablement products
Background in QA, technical support, or product operations with strong debugging and issue-tracking habits
Familiarity with data pipeline integrity, especially if you've worked on AI high-signal input for support workflows
Exposure to healthcare, SaaS, or complex B2B2C platforms with internal and external customer dependencies
Experience defining self-service strategies, automations, or UX optimizations to reduce support burden
The salary for this position is $175-195k and a grant of stock options. Compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and geographic location.
Thalamus is a mission-driven organization centered on the belief that our company should model what we want of the US healthcare system, that the diversity of providers aligns with patient populations. We believe this is best achieved by building a team with a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, including “distance traveled.” Thalamus is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), sex and gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), gender identity and gender expression (including transgender individuals who are transitioning, have transitioned, or are perceived to be transitioning to the gender with which they identify), age, sexual orientation, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, and any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law. We encourage those who really want to make an impact and who exemplify our core values to apply for our open positions.
Actual base salary offered will be determined by: experience, skills, and work location. This range is for base salary, our total compensation includes equity and benefits. We welcome you to apply even if your expectations are outside our listed range.
Thalamus is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures and throughout employment. If you need assistance or any accommodation, please let us know.
Thalamus does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies without a fully executed recruitment agreement in place. In the absence of such agreement, Thalamus reserves the right to pursue and hire any candidates without an obligation to pay fees. Agencies are requested not to contact Thalamus hiring managers or employees regarding recruiting services.
*This position is based in the United States, and you must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
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