Principal Technical Product Manager

Ascension Health Alliance; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks a Principal Technical Product Manager to oversee the development of its platform portfolio. This individual will drive product strategy, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure the successful delivery of innovative healthcare solutions. With a focus on user-centered design and data interoperability, this role offers the opportunity to significantly impact the healthcare experience.

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Health insurance options

Retirement benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in digital product management.
• Demonstrable knowledge of FHIR standards.
• Experience with healthcare data integration and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and execution from concept to launch.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product development.
• Analyze customer needs to inform product features and improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Product Management

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Details

• Department:Growth Marketing & Digital Experience (GMDx)
• Schedule:Monday - Friday, 8 hour shift
• Location:Remote

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

The Ascension GMDx Platform teams own Ascension’s portfolio of platform products including enterprise data services layer, identity suite, platform services, design system, and developer experience from design to deployment. We aspire to be the place where Ascension development teams come for answers, a trusted source for data and services that empower our products and business leaders to create innovative health care experiences. Our collaboration with and outputs to Ascension’s other product teams shape their decisions and thus how our customers see, use, and value all of the digital products across Ascension.

At Ascension, we empower our product teams to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in ways that our customers love, and that work for our business. These teams are cross-functional and durable, generally comprising a product manager, a product technical lead, and several engineers. We staff our product teams with the skills necessary to come up with effective solutions that are valuable (our customers choose to use), viable (the solutions work within the many constraints of our business), usable (our users can figure out how to use) and feasible (our engineers have the skills and technology to implement). While our product designers ensure usability and the engineers ensure feasibility, the product manager must understand the entire solution, constantly optimizing between different areas to ensure that our solutions deliver the maximum value over time. This means that the product manager must bring to the product team a solid knowledge of the various technical as well as business aspects, including marketing, legal, compliance, customer service, finance, and privacy, along with industry trends and the competitive landscape.

The product manager must also provide a deep knowledge of our users and customers, and identify how to measure our customers’ engagement with our products. Finally, the product manager is expected to know enough about the technology to help make trade offs against other areas of the products, alongside their engineering counterparts. At Ascension, your efforts will be making a significant contribution to the vital healthcare communities that we serve. While each member of the product team may be accountable for a specific risk, we look for product managers that understand that consistent innovation is the result of each member of the product team contributing their passion and ideas. The product manager must collaborate closely with all members of the teams to discover effective solutions, and then work together to deliver those solutions to the market. While we empower our product teams to figure out the best solutions to the problems that need to be solved, we also hold those teams accountable to the results. Shipping is necessary, but not sufficient. We look for product managers that are not afraid of signing up for results, even when this means they have to work through others to achieve the necessary results. This job, as with the other roles on the product team, is an individual contributor role. You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives, through your use of leadership skills, data, storytelling, and logic.

We are looking for someone who is customer focused, relishes ambiguity and has a passion for innovating to create first-class products that deliver compelling customer and developer experiences. We are looking for someone who is curious, driven, and passionate about healthcare, interoperability, api products, data services, platform integration, and the developer experience. If you are looking for a role where you can make a major impact by developing new platforms and launching new products that are driven by enterprise data services, open up innovative business strategies, and empower compelling developer experiences, we want to meet you.

As a Principal Technical Product Manager, you will be responsible for identifying customer needs and strategic business problems, defining and driving development of platform portfolio products and services from concept to minimal viable product to launch delivery of the full product lifecycle, relentless advocacy for a frictionless consumer experience. You will contribute to help shape product portfolio strategy, align your product roadmap and deliver features to achieve the platform portfolio vision, strategy, and targeted business objectives. You will collaborate with product teams to define and support the maturation and roadmap for those products within your portfolio. You will work cross-functionally with other product managers, legal, compliance, security, business development, engineering and data science teams to perform technical, business and service feasibility analysis to drive product development and lifecycle management. You will influence your teammates, as well as stakeholders and key executives, through leadership skills, data, storytelling, and logic. You will be equally comfortable collaborating with a development team and presenting in front of executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Serve as the product leader for the Enterprise Data Services Layer platform product team who are charged with building our custom cloud-native middleware and data integration services that empower our digital experiences with modular, composable, and reusable services connecting consumers, patients, and developers to interoperable, normalized and harmonized clinical, financial, and operational data.
• Contribute and help shape the product strategy, align the product roadmap and deliver product features that drive measurable key results in support of the objectives of the product portfolio.
• Responsible for identifying customer needs and strategic business problems, as well as discovery, definition and development of product requirements and service definitions from concept to minimal viable product to launch including oversight of full product lifecycle.
• Define and drive product strategy and quarterly roadmaps and OKRi’s via influence across teammates, colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives, through use of leadership skills, data, storytelling, and logic, while demonstrating ownership of the health and evolution of products within the portfolio.
• Ensure the team is driving towards our vision and own the health and evolution of products within the portfolio through definition, instrumentation, and measurement of key product analytics and deep understanding of how the product delivers business goals including ownership, tracking, and reporting out on product initiatives and progress toward milestones via audience-appropriate metrics in multiple formats (i.e., team vs. manager vs. executive).
• Work cross-functionally with business stakeholders, engineering and design teams to perform technical, business and service feasibility analysis to drive product development and lifecycle management and collaborate closely with all members of the teams to discover effective solutions, and work together to deliver those solutions to the market.
• Work with our engineering and delivery team leads to support team needs including epic decomposition, backlog/story management, validation of user story acceptance, forecasting, resource planning, product reporting, release management, and operational support activities.

Desired Experience for the Role:

• 5+ years of experience in digital product management and/or product owner role with a demonstrable history of working well in a cross functional team environment and owning product definition, roadmap prioritization and end to end delivery.
• 5+ years of experience and successful history of developing and delivering technology products to the market, and demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery required for building new, innovative, and engaging customer and developer experiences informed by customer data from various sources.
• 5+ years of experience in managing medium to large scale projects/initiatives in a fast paced environment with proven ability to understand complex systems and processes, exemplary analytical skills, and ability to interpret and leverage data in effective decision making to create best-in-class solutions for customers including experience in working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand and improve product capabilities.
• Demonstrable knowledge of FHIR standards, including resource types, search capabilities, and best practices for implementation including designing and implementing FHIR APIs, integrating with other Google Cloud services, developing data pipelines, and ensuring data quality and security.
• Demonstrable experience and hands on knowledge of data interoperability via APIs supporting CMS 9115/9123 regulations, FHIR/R4 + USCDI data interoperability via APIs, and integration experience with multiple/diverse Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendor platforms (e.g. Oracle/Cerner, athenahealth, Epic, Meditech, Veradigm/Allscripts, etc.).
• Expertise in building systems that enable seamless data exchange between different healthcare systems, and understanding of cloud platforms like Google Cloud, including data storage, compute, and networking services. Experience with specific Google Cloud Healthcare API features (e.g., SMART on FHIR), prior experience in the healthcare industry, programming skills in languages like Java or Python, and expertise in specific data analysis or visualization tools.
• Demonstrable experience and hands on knowledge of designing, building, and maintaining APIs, particularly within a cloud environment like Google Cloud and familiarity with HL7, DICOM, and other healthcare data exchange protocols including knowledge of healthcare data security standards (e.g., HIPAA) and ensuring data privacy and confidentiality.
• Demonstrable experience to conduct data analysis and visualization to extract insights from healthcare data using tools like BigQuery and strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, Traits, and Abilities for the Role:

• Passion for building consumer-centered products in a mission-driven organization with deep knowledge of healthcare data integration and interoperability products, platform capabilities, technology trends, and excited to help craft the future of healthcare digital experiences.
• Proven leadership in defining product vision, setting roadmaps, and driving delivery through Agile methodologies with demonstrated ability to have a short term in depth focus and long term strategic vision for digital product and platform strategy, backlog/roadmap prioritization, and decision-making including the ability to manage bottlenecks, provide escalation, anticipate, and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit while building great customer and developer experiences.
• Demonstrated strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use hard data to define and measure product team objectives/key results, regularly track product key performance indicators to back up assumptions, develop recommendations, drive actions, and track success metrics to dig deeper on customer/developer feedback to identify key pain points.
• Demonstrated communication skills, including the ability to speak clearly to a group of people, and present confidently to senior leadership, external partners, and stakeholders in order to effectively manage all strategic and tactical aspects of product initiatives with the ability to simplify complexity and drive alignment to achieve product objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with other teams such as Executives, Marketing, Operations, Design, Engineering, Data Governance, Security, Legal, Compliance and other product teams to make sure their objectives are met, opinions are considered, plans communicated and figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgment to assess risks, and to lay out product development/delivery plans in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative as necessary to ensure products stay on schedule and meet high standards of quality.
• Demonstrated experience managing cross-product portfolios and aligning investments to business outcomes including experience managing financial budgets, vendor partnerships, and cross-vendor/platform roadmap alignment.

Requirements

Education:

• High School diploma equivalency with 5 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 3 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 2 of those years being in leadership/management.

Additional Preferences

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in related field, or equivalent experience with 5+ years of applicable cumulative job specific experience working on API development, healthcare data standards, cloud-native and/or data integration platforms as either a product manager, architect, engineer, analyst, or integrator.

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