Principal Technical Product Manager, Platform

Vatica Health, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus potential

401k plans

Generous PTO

Health insurance

Work-life balance

Job summary

Vatica Health, Inc. is seeking a Principal Platform Product Manager to steer the evolution of our value-based care platform—enabling risk adjustment, quality measurement, and patient care workflows.

This is an hands-on, individual-contributor role focused on strategy and fast decision-making. You will align roadmaps across engineering teams, manage transition paths for new capabilities, and ensure existing customers and data move forward without disruption.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management with platform-level ownership.
• Experience leading a major platform build or migration.
• Proven track record coordinating delivery across multiple engineering teams.
• Able to move decisions forward in ambiguity with partial specs.
• Hands-on mindset: comfortable with data models and technical tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform strategy and roadmap from architecture decisions to feature specs.
• Lead the transition strategy for evolving the platform with minimal disruption.
• Coordinate delivery across engineering teams and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Review data contracts and tradeoffs, writing specs when needed.
• Document product decisions with clear rationale and named owners.
• Validate designs with engineers and end users to solve real problems.

Skills

Platform strategy

Cross-team coordination

Stakeholder management

Decision making under ambiguity

Technical fluency

Job description

We're looking for a Principal Platform Product Manager to lead the evolution of our platform for value-based care — the system providers use to manage risk adjustment, quality measurement, and patient care workflows. This is a hands‑on, individual‑contributor role: you'll set platform strategy in support of the broader business while staying close enough to the details to unblock engineering, resolve design ambiguity, and make fast calls when specs are incomplete. You'll also own the transition path as new capabilities roll out — moving existing customers, data, and workflows forward without disrupting the clinical and administrative work that depends on the platform every day. The role coordinates across several engineering teams — some dedicated to this effort, others owned elsewhere in the org — so a big part of the job is aligning roadmaps and dependencies across teams you don't formally manage.

Responsibilities:

• Own the platform strategy and roadmap in support of the broader business, from architecture-level decisions down to individual feature specs.
• Lead the transition strategy for moving existing customers and workflows forward as the platform evolves, including sequencing, risk mitigation, and rollback planning.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple engineering teams — teams you work with day to day and dependent teams outside your scope — resolving conflicting priorities and keeping cross-team dependencies visible and on schedule.
• Get into the details: review data contracts, evaluate technical tradeoffs with engineering leads, and write or edit specs yourself when needed rather than delegating every decision.
• Make and document product decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving conditions, with clear rationale and named owners for anything left open.
• Work directly with engineers and end users (clinical and administrative staff) to validate that designs solve the actual problem, not just the stated requirement.
• Manage scope and expectations with stakeholders at every level, from engineers to executive sponsors.
• Partner with globally distributed engineering teams, including regular early‑morning collaboration to overlap with offshore working hours.
• Report progress, risks, and open decisions clearly and on a predictable cadence.

• 10+ years in product management, with significant experience owning platform-level or infrastructure‑adjacent products (not just feature teams).
• Direct experience leading a major platform build and/or migration — you've done this before and know where the risk hides.
• A track record of coordinating delivery across multiple engineering teams, including teams you don't formally manage.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity — you can move a decision forward without waiting for a complete spec.
• A “doer” mindset: willing to work in the details (data models, technical tradeoffs, edge cases), not just set direction from above.
• Experience working with globally distributed / offshore engineering teams and the schedule flexibility that requires.
• Strong written and verbal communication — able to explain technical tradeoffs to executives and translate business needs to engineers.

Preferred:

• Experience in healthcare technology, particularly value-based care, risk adjustment, or quality measurement (e.g., HEDIS, Stars).
• Experience building or operating provider-facing software.
• Familiarity with modular/service-oriented architectures and data contract–based system design.

WORKING AT VATICA HEALTH ADVANTAGES

Prosperity

• Competitive salary based on your experience and skills – we believe the top talent deserves the top dollar
• Bonus Potential (based on role and is discretionary) – if you go above and beyond, you should be rewarded
• 401k plans– we want to empower you to prepare for your future
• Room for growth and advancement- we love our employees and want to develop within

Good Health

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans
• Tax‑free Dependent Care Account
• Life insurance, short‑term, and long‑term disability

Happiness

• Excellent PTO policy (everyone deserves a vacation now and then)
• Great work-life balance environment- We believe family comes first!
• Strong supportive teams- There is always a helping hand when you need it