Rachel Nagy

Oxford AI Program, AI Ethics, Compliance and Regulation                                

University of Oxford, UK | Jun 2025 - Present 

Founding leader, Strategic Partnerships, Product, Program -  Wearables technology (line manager)                                               

cross-sector initiation, led by The University of Manchester, UK | Aug 2023 - May 2025   

• Spearheaded a national flagship programme positioning the UK as a leader in health research using wearables.
• Recruited, built, and led a cross-functional technical team as a line manager, fostering innovation, accountability, and delivery excellence.
• Aligned leading institutions (Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, King’s, Edinburgh, Manchester, NHS, Google Health, Verily, GSK) around a shared roadmap, governance model, and delivery goals.
• Defined product vision and roadmap, translating multi-stakeholder needs into prioritised features and measurable outcomes across a multi-OS ecosystem.
• Delivered a national-scale wearables platform integrating multi-OS (Android, iOS) devices, including Oura, Apple Watch, Garmin, and Fitbit data, with 30,000 NHS patient records in ~12 months, encompassing a user-facing app, data pipelines, and governance frameworks.
• Collaborated with UX, UI, engineering, and business functions to define product requirements, ensure seamless multi-device integration, and deliver consistent user experiences across platforms.
• Led extensive patient & public involvement workshops engaging participants nationwide to capture user needs; converted insights into user journeys, stories, and flows guiding user-centric design and development.
• Established maintenance and sustainability processes, ensuring platform stability, data integrity, and governance continuity post-launch.
• Produced quarterly executive reports with product metrics (adoption rates, data completeness, platform usage) to inform strategy, prioritisation, and funding decisions.
• Co-Secured £1.6 M in grant funding and corporate sponsorship by aligning research and product incentives.
• Selected for a venture accelerator, sharpening product–market fit, investment strategy, and commercialisation pathways.

Technical Program & Product Manager - Health & Wearables

Google Health UK | Mar 2020 – July 2023

• Led product delivery for Google’s first pandemic-response Software-as-a-Medical-Device (SaMD), launched in NHS hospitals to support clinicians during COVID-19.
• Defined platform strategy and product roadmaps for regulated health products, balancing innovation speed with patient safety, privacy, and compliance.
• Founded the Regulatory Intelligence function, transforming it into a design-partner system that reduced AI product time-to-market by 30% through early risk surfacing and clear go/no-go criteria.
• Partnered across engineering, UX, research, legal, and clinical teams to align goals and deliver compliant, user-centric innovation in a global, matrixed environment.
• Delivered executive presentations on product metrics, adoption, and risk management to senior leadership, shaping portfolio investment decisions.
• Mentored PMs and analysts, promoting professional growth across teams.

Fitbit, end-to-end Mental Health Product Manager - Wearables

Google Health, UK | Aug 2022 – Feb 2023

• Defined and executed the product roadmap for mental-health experiences across mobile and smartwatch platforms, aligning engineering, UX, research, and business goals.
• Translated stress, HRV, and mental-health algorithms into user-centric, scalable features; wrote user stories and flows to guide engineering and design decisions.
• Partnered with UX, UI, and data-science teams to validate concepts through experiments and monitored key product metrics (engagement, retention, feature adoption) to inform iteration and prioritisation.
• Redesigned the Fitbit Premium experience to improve engagement and retention, with an expected 10% uplift in weekly active users (WAU) based on implementation testing.
• Led distributed teams of 30+ across Bucharest and San Francisco, running sprint planning, delivery tracking, and stakeholder reviews.
• Mentored PMs and analysts, fostering a culture of clarity, accountability, and growth across distributed teams.
• Collaborated with legal, privacy, and clinical partners to ensure GDPR-compliant data handling.
• Supported the Fitbit → Google platform migration, ensuring consistent user experience and data interoperability across the multi-OS ecosystem.

Founding Leader, EMEA-EU-MDR-IVDR Regional Program - Health technology (line manager)
Becton Dickinson, UK | Mar 2019 – Mar 2020

• Built from scratch and led EMEA’s top-priority EU-MDR program, connecting the technical and business worlds.
• Delivered all compliance objectives for a 16,000-SKU, safeguarding €2B product portfolio within one year—protected market access for the full EMEA product portfolio.
• Led launches, maintenance and retirement in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Built and mentored a team of 12 cross-functional program/product managers. Reported to the EMEA President.
• Executed product remediation roadmaps, collaborating with engineering, research, UX, finance, legal, marketing, and regulatory teams.

Senior Product & Project Manager - New Product Development - Health Technology

Owen Mumford, UK | Dec 2014 – Sept 2018

• Led product strategy and development for drug delivery devices, concept to launch, with full P&L accountability. Budget: £10Million+
• Achieved FDA and CE approvals, ensuring compliance with global regulatory standards, and built a GTM strategy.
• Executed product roadmaps, collaborating with engineering, research, UX, finance, legal, marketing, and regulatory teams.
• Adapted methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Stage-Gate, Lean, Critical Chain) to optimise execution.
  Key Deliverables:
  • Secured £6M investment for a Capillar y Blood Sampling Product. (customer: NHS)
  • Developed and launched the Humira Pen redesign for AbbVie, contributing to $16B in global sales.
  • Delivered two drug delivery devices for Ferring Pharmaceuticals, generating £4.3M in revenue.

New Product Introduction Project Engineer - Health Technology (line manager)

Owen Mumford, UK | Jul 2013 – Nov 2014

• Developed and launched novel drug-delivery devices, generating £2.1M in revenue with AbbVie and Novartis.
• Line Manager of contract engineers

New Product Introduction Engineer - Health Technology

Owen Mumford, UK | Jun 2011 – Jun 2012

• Designed, developed, and validated robotic systems to deliver novel drug-delivery devices for Abbott Laboratories. Assets managed >£1M.

• Oxford AI Ethics, Compliance and Regulation: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, due Oct 2025
• Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford 2025
• Stanford LEAD: Strategy & Innovation, Stanford GSB, 2021
• MSc in Product Design Engineering: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2011
• MSc in Computer-Aided Engineering: University of the West of Scotland, 2010