Associate Product Manager

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Telemedicine

401(k) plan with match

Tuition assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

HCA Healthcare, Inc. is seeking an Associate Product Manager within ITG Accelerated Technologies in Nashville.

You will work with analysts, designers, engineers, and business partners to guide products from ideation to launch, using data to inform decisions and deliver high-value solutions that support patient care. You will lead agile planning, define KPIs, manage the product lifecycle, and collaborate across platform teams to align with business goals while ensuring security and responsible AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3+ years of experience in product management or related field.
• 1–2 years people management or product team leadership preferred.
• Experience with AI-powered development tools to improve developer productivity; preferred.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, DevSecOps, IaC, APIs, microservices, and Kubernetes; preferred.
• Understanding enterprise AI governance and security considerations; preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead vision, strategy, and agile planning for products.
• Define and track KPIs to measure value of IT investments.
• Establish OKRs to define measurable goals and outcomes.
• Manage product lifecycle from discovery to delivery and support.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and other product teams to design high-value solutions.
• Follow incremental delivery with proof of concept and MVP.
• Facilitate agile scrum processes and ceremonies.
• Drive user-centered design practices and prototyping.
• Prioritize features based on data-driven insights and stakeholder input.
• Maintain relationships with stakeholders and users.
• Monitor healthcare/tech trends to inform product strategy.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and responsible AI policies.
• Communicate risks and roadmaps to stakeholders; mitigate where needed.
• Maintain visibility of current priorities and future plans.

Skills

Product management

Agile

Stakeholder mgmt

Data-driven decisions

User-centered design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Kubernetes

ChatGPT

Job description

Job Summary And Qualifications

Do you have the career opportunities as an Associate Product Manager you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join HCA Healthcare which is part of the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Position Summary

As Associate Product Manager within ITG Accelerated Technologies, you will work cross-functionally across enterprise teams to guide products from ideation to launch and beyond. You will work with analysts, designers, engineers, software developers, and various business partners to deliver high-value products to support the care and improvement of human life. Time will be spent understanding customer problems, designing solutions, using data to inform decisions, and managing successful solution delivery.

Major Responsibilities

• Lead vision, strategy, & agile planning (e.g., monthly release, quarterly planning).
• Define & track metrics / key performance indicators (KPIs) to continuously value of IT investment in solutions built on the platform (e.g., north star, driver, supporting, & diagnostic metrics)
• Establish annual and/or quarterly objectives and key results (OKRs) to define measurable goals and outcome tracking, making use of established metrics / KPIs in goal setting process
• Manage the product lifecycle from discovery through delivery & ongoing support, ensuring alignment with business goals and clarity across key stakeholders / the product squad.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams — including analysts, engineers, and other product teams dependent on platform, & business stakeholders — to design and deliver high-value solutions.
• Follow an incremental delivery approach (e.g., proof of concept, minimum valuable product), making and testing hypotheses along the way, to maximize outcomes over output.
• Facilitate agile scrum processes & contribute to ceremonies across dependent product teams.
• Drive user-centered design practices (e.g., UX research, design sprint, story mapping, prototyping)
• Prioritize features & enhancements based on data-driven insights and stakeholder input, focusing on highest value items and balancing short-term needs with long-term strategic roadmap.
• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, other product teams, & users.
• Monitor market / industry trends in healthcare and technology (e.g., artificial intelligence, data science), to inform product strategy & innovation.
• Monitor roadmaps of key business & technical/enabling teams to ensure consideration within the product strategy.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, & responsible AI policies, standards, and procedures as applicable throughout the product lifecycle.
• Proactively communicate risks, blockers, & roadmap status updates to stakeholders, & recommend risk mitigation strategies as needed.
• Maintain visibility of current product priorities as well as future plans (roadmaps, backlogs).
• Measure & communicate value delivery / KPI / OKR achievement to key stakeholders.
• Advocate for scalable, secure, & efficient solutions that reduce insurance denials & improve patient care coordination.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Practices and adheres to the "Code of Conduct" philosophy and "Mission and Value Statement".

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required
• 3 or more years of experience in product management, business analysis, product analysis, engineering, architecture, project management, consulting, or other relevant field required
• 1 – 2 years people management or product team leadership preferred
• Experience with AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini Code Assist, ChatGPT, or similar technologies to improve developer productivity and accelerate software delivery. Preferred
• Knowledge of modern software development practices, including CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), APIs, microservices, and containerization technologies such as Kubernetes. Preferred
• Understanding of enterprise AI governance and security considerations, including responsible AI adoption, data protection, and secure integration of AI tools into development environments. Preferred

Licenses, Certifications, & Training

• Agile Certification Preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors

• Service and Quality Excellence: Ability to demonstrate an uncompromising commitment to delivering exceptional care to create an unmatched value proposition for our patients. Required
• Honor our Mission and Values: Ability to build trust and act with authenticity to cultivate a culture of integrity, inclusion, and mutual respect. Required
• Effective Decision Making: Ability to make timely, informed decisions that are in the best interest of our patients, employees, providers, community and HCA. Required
• Attain and Leverage Strategic Relationships: Ability to develop and strengthen collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to advance the care of our patients and the growth of HCA. Required
• Lead and Develop Others: Ability to lead others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives; provide meaningful coaching and mentoring to increase the capabilities of individuals and teams and drive employee engagement. Required
• Communicate with Impact: Ability to deliver information in a clear, concise, and compelling manner to effectively engage others and achieve desired results. Required
• Achieve Success through Change: Ability to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation, remove barriers and resistance, and enable desired behaviors. Required
• Drive Execution and Financial Results: Ability to commit to the success and financial wellbeing of HCA by challenging others to excel and hold themselves and others accountable for achieving results. Required

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.