Principal Product Manager, Data, Analytics & Reporting

Speridian Technologies; Canada; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Speridian Technologies is seeking a Principal Product Manager for the Department of Healthcare Services' Behavioral Health Transformation project. This remote role requires a strategic thinker to manage data analytics and reporting solutions, collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance outcomes for California's behavioral health system.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management, data strategy, or related fields.
• Experience with public sector and behavioral health data.
• Strong communication skills with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and own product vision for Data Analytics & Reporting.
• Lead discovery with counties and providers to improve reporting processes.
• Communicate tradeoffs and roadmap priorities to stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data strategy

User experience

Job description

Speridian Technologies is recruiting for aPrincipal Product Manager, BHT Data, Analytics & Reporting for our State of California Client, the Department of Healthcare Services, Behavioral Health. This person will be part of a long-term, fully budgeted, state-of-the-art, extremely vast IT modernization project working with a variety of cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

This is a remote role; however, there will be meetings in the Sacramento area several times a year. Candidates are expected to work business hours, Monday-Friday, Pacific time zone.

Join DHCS’s Behavioral Health Transformation: Where Purpose Meets Innovation
Location: Remote/Hybrid
Level: Principal Individual Contributor
Department: Department of Healthcare Services (DHCS)
Commitment: Full-Time Consultant (W2 employee of Speridian or 1099/IC for Speridian)As a W2 employee with benefits OR a1099/IC (no benefits)

Why DHCS?
At DHCS we are leading a transformative journey in Behavioral Health, reshaping systems and services toensure better outcomesfor communities across California. Our Behavioral Health transformation initiative is more than a project—it’s a movement to make California a leader in accessible, high-quality health services. We’re setting the stage for a new era of government services built on agile methodologies, cutting-edge technology, continuous improvement, and a relentless commitment to serving the public good.
At DHCS, we’re looking for innovators who are passionate about purposeful work and excited by the opportunity to drive lasting change through innovative solutions.

Our Core Values (Achieve Together, Be Curious, Elevate Yourself, and Deliver Value)

• We achieve together by championing a team-oriented workplace built on mutual respect, collaboration, and open communication.
• We encourage individuals and teams to constantly be curious and seek a deeper understanding and fresh ideas that drive innovation and meaningful change.
• We provide a supportive workplace where you can elevate yourself and achieve personal growth through continuous learning, focused effort, and perseverance.
• We deliver value as part of every action we take to serve California’s citizens.

Job Description
California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is transforming how behavioral health care is delivered across the state. The Behavioral Health Transformation (BHT) project represents a historic investment in systems change. Our work enables counties, providers, and state staff to deliver more coordinated, equitable, and outcomes-driven behavioral health services for all Californians.BHT isa once-in-a-generation effort to transform behavioral health service delivery for California’s most vulnerable populations. We are building a team of mission-driven, systems-minded professionals who can steward this transformation.
The BHT initiative is a multi-year effort to re-architect the way DHCS partners with counties and providers to deliver care, measure outcomes, and support system accountability. This work requires a new generation of digital tools, data infrastructure, and service delivery models. At its core, BHT is about making real changes in the lives of Californians—ensuring every dollar spent can be tied to improved access, quality, and health outcomes. We are seeking a strategic, systems-minded Principal Product Manager to mature our Data, Analytics & Reporting capability for BHT. In this role, you will be accountable for ensuring DHCS can answer the fundamental question: What impact are we making with the behavioral health dollars we invest?
To do this, you will drive the product strategy for how DHCS collects, manages, and reports on individual- and service-level behavioral health data from counties and providers. Your work will shape how the state builds transparency, strengthens accountability, and drives evidence-based improvements across the behavioral health delivery system.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility individual contributor role. You’ll work cross-functionally with policy, program, and data teams across DHCS, as well as with counties, and behavioral health providers. Your focus will be turning fragmented and duplicative reporting practices into streamlined, user-centered solutions that deliver timely and accurate insight into the performance of the behavioral health system.
Key Responsibilities

• Define and own business problem, opportunity development, and product vision development for Data Analytics & Reporting within the BHT portfolio, aligning it with policy mandates, BHT program outcomes, and user needs.
• Identify, understand, and validate high-value use cases that require better access to individual- and service-level data.
• Lead discovery with counties and providers to surface pain points in today’s data submission processes and translate those into actionable product requirements.
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, and reporting teams to ensure tools and systems are designed around real-world workflows—not abstract models.
• Drive cross-functional alignment among internal data teams, program teams and external stakeholders to build shared ownership of data solutions.
• Communicate tradeoffs, roadmap priorities, and expected outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders and executives.
• Support the development of consistent, actionable reporting that enables DHCS to meet its transparency, accountability, and equity goals under BHT

Who We’re Looking For
This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, data, and user experience. You must be able to think in systems, while staying grounded in the concrete needs of users across government, counties, and provider organizations.
To be successful in this role, you:

• Are a problem-first, not tool-first thinker. You lead with real-world pain points and design solutions backward from need—not technology.
• Excel at turning ambiguity into clarity. You bring structure to complex issues and help teams align around practical next steps.
• Have a deep appreciation for how policy, people, and data systems interact in large organizations.
• Know how to listen and translate—surfacing needs across diverse stakeholders and turning them into shared outcomes and concrete action.
• Are impact-oriented. You focus on shipping usable solutions, not just defining elegant frameworks.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management, data strategy, public sector analytics, or related fields.
• Proven track record of developing data or reporting solutions in complex stakeholder environments.
• Experience working with public sector, care, or behavioral health data.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, particularly across technical and program audiences.
• Experience with data governance, reporting pipelines, and performance measurement approaches.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with EHR systems and behavioral healthcare provider reporting workflows.
• Understanding of California’s behavioral health system, SB 326, AB 531, or related mandates.

Speridian is an Equal Opportunity Employer