Product Manager, HRS Grants

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.

Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.

You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

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The Research Enterprise Solutions team works with hospitals, universities, cancer centers, academic medical centers, and research institutions to improve research administration performance through transformative change. Huron provides flexible, scalable, and configurable solutions that streamline workflows, reduce administrative burden, and help clients focus more time on their research mission.

The Product Manager for HRS Grants will help shape the next generation of Huron Research Suite grants capabilities as Huron transitions from legacy research administration solutions to a single, integrated, cloud-based product. This role is accountable for product strategy, market understanding, roadmap direction, business outcomes, and cross-functional alignment for grants-related capabilities.

Role Overview
The Product Manager is responsible for defining the problems HRS Grants should solve, the customers and users it should serve, the product capabilities required to create value, and the business outcomes the product must achieve. This role translates customer needs, market trends, Huron’s research administration point of view, and product performance data into an outcome-driven roadmap and market-facing product direction.

The role requires strong research administration domain expertise, especially in grants management, proposal development, award negotiation, sponsored projects administration, and related institutional workflows. The ideal candidate also brings the technical fluency needed to partner credibly with architecture, engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, implementation, support, sales, customer success, consulting, and customer stakeholders on complex SaaS product decisions.

This Product Manager will serve as the strategic business owner for HRS Grants capabilities with significant input into the broader HRS Suite, setting vision, defining priorities, validating market opportunities, and ensuring Huron’s distinctive expertise is reflected in differentiated software solutions. PM will drive outcomes through strong stakeholder management across executives, consultants, and customers and a close partnership with Engineering, resulting in clear product direction, aligned cross-functional execution, and shared ownership of delivery.

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Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and communicate the product vision for HRS Grants, including a multi-year view of the product, market, customer needs, and business opportunities.
• Translate Huron’s research administration point of view, industry standards, market trends, and customer problems into strategic product themes, outcomes, and roadmap priorities.
• Identify growth opportunities and determine the investment, organizational readiness, and cross-functional support required to achieve target business outcomes.
• Position of HRS Grants based on the market problems it solves, the value it creates, and Huron’s strengths and differentiation.

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Market Awareness, Customer Discovery & Differentiation

• Lead customer discovery with clients, prospects, advisory groups, implementation teams, support teams, and internal stakeholders to understand unmet needs and buy drivers.
• Identify and prioritize personas and use cases across research administrators, investigators, departmental users, central office teams, compliance stakeholders, and institutional lead…