Product Manager VI

Kaiser Permanente; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena, California seeks a Senior Product Manager VI to define product strategy, vision, and roadmaps for complex mental health care platforms. You will collaborate with clinicians, operations, and cross-functional teams to translate clinical workflows into scalable digital solutions, prioritizing end-to-end care coordination across Epic integrations and data exchange standards.

The role emphasizes leading discovery, validating ideas with users, and driving adoption across

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 10+ years in product management, project management, IT consulting, product development or related fields.
• Minimum 5+ years in product management including discovery and long-term strategy development.
• Minimum 2+ years building and validating business cases for investments.
• Minimum 3+ years working with agile teams and ceremonies.
• Minimum 3+ years strategic planning and product roadmaps.
• Minimum 4+ years in a leadership role, with or without direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Drive multiple work streams by identifying needs, translating strategy into requirements, and removing obstacles.
• Foster collaboration, solicit feedback, mentor, and coach team members across the organization.
• Define and drive product strategy and roadmaps from ideation to launch for complex products.
• Serve as expert facilitator and consultant across the product life cycle with stakeholders.
• Lead discovery, prototyping, and validation to inform roadmaps and product adoption.
• Track KPIs, develop dashboards, and prepare updates for leadership.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Client Focus

Decision Making

Cross-Group Collaboration

Communic ation

Leading People

Prioritization

Negotiation

Organizational Skills

Risk Management

Technical Communication

Technical Documentation

Vendor Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Technical Summary:

This senior-level technical and functional leader is responsible for defining product strategy, vision, and roadmaps-from ideation through launch-for complex products supporting Mental Health and Wellness care delivery. The role focuses on designing and advancing digital capabilities that improve access, care coordination, and clinician and member experiences across the continuum of mental health services. A key aspect of the role includes close partnership with mental health clinicians, operational leaders, and cross-functional teams to deeply understand clinical workflows and translate them into scalable, technology-enabled solutions. The individual will support and optimize core workflows which primarily use the Epic platforms, including Ambulatory, MyChart, and Cadence, as well as the associated integrations (e.g., HL7 and other interoperability frameworks), ensuring seamless workflows and data exchange across systems.

Job Summary:

This senior technical/functional leader role is primarily responsible for defining product strategy, vision, and product roadmaps from ideation to launch for complex or high impact products, and making decisions on new products or enhancements to bring to market. This includes leading the development of product enhancements based on validated learnings, serving as an expert facilitator and consultant for product teams and diverse stakeholder groups across the organization, and partnering with operations teams and market stakeholders to support product adoption. This role is also responsible for leading and driving internal and external discovery for new and existing products, identifying best in class marketplace innovation, driving prototyping and validation with end users, ensuring learnings are funneled to product roadmaps, overseeing efforts to track outcomes and key performance indicators, and leading and overseeing product team members to solve user problems on complex or high impact issues.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.

• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

• Defines and drives product strategy and vision, and develops product roadmaps from ideation to launch for complex or high impact products by making decisions on new products or enhancements to bring to market; evaluating potential business process changes, system impacts, and flow concepts to determine the viability of implementing desired enhancements; providing an end-to-end holistic view of how specific business processes and internal system configurations impact the user experience; leading the development of business cases for new products, improvements to existing products, and/or business ventures; defining, managing, and avoiding technical debt as appropriate; leading the development of product enhancements based on validated learnings; ensuring documentation clearly communicates customer/stakeholder needs to the product team; and working with team members to clarify features and requirements as necessary.

• Serves as an expert facilitator and consultant for the product team and diverse stakeholder groups across the organization throughout the product management life cycle by driving the resolution of inter-squad, cross-product and external dependencies, roadblocks and constraints; partnering with operations teams and market stakeholders to support product adoption; coordinating training efforts to build readiness for production support and operational readiness teams; leading feature demos for key stakeholders; providing advanced product expertise, peer training, and consultation as appropriate; ensuring adherence to enterprise compliance standards; and managing technology risks as appropriate.

• Leads and drives internal and external discovery for new and existing products by partnering with key stakeholders to identify business needs; identifying best in class marketplace innovation; driving prototyping and validation with end users with support from UX design and research, engineering, and other stakeholders as appropriate; and ensuring learnings are funneled to the product roadmap.

• Oversees the tracking of key performance indicators by defining and tracking KPIs and performance metrics (e.g., speed, quality, etc.); reviewing analytical dashboards; assessing and verifying KPI alignment; and leading the development and maintenance of ad hoc reports, status updates, and presentation decks for key stakeholders and leadership.

• Leads and oversees product team members to solve user problems for complex or high impact issues by prioritizing the work backlog to ensure balance across new development, non-functional requirements, and technical work (e.g., maintenance, support, technical debt, etc.); and serving as a lead partner and expert on competitive and user research/testing, experimentation, and/or design thinking initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management

• Attention to Detail

• Business Knowledge

• Communication

• Critical Thinking

• Cross-Group Collaboration

• Decision Making

• Dependability

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support

• Drives Results

• Facilitation Skills

• Health Care Industry

• Influencing Others

• Integrity

• Learning Agility

• Organizational Savvy

• Problem Solving

• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall

• Teamwork

• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Analytical Skills

• Client Focus

• Conflict Resolution

• Cross Department Coordination

• Debugging and Troubleshooting

• Delegation

• Demonstrating Personal Flexibility

• Getting Work Done Through Others

• IT Industry: Trends & Directions

• IT Service Design and Introduction

• IT Service Improvement

• IT Standards, Procedures & Policies

• ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Consultation

• Innovative Mindset

• Managing Diverse Relationships

• Mentoring and Coaching

• Negotiation

• Organizational Skills

• Prioritization

• Relationship Building

• Risk Management

• Technical Communication

• Technical Documentation

• Vendor Management

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems Management, Data Analytics, Engineering, Social Science, or related field and minimum ten (10) years experience in product management, project management, IT consulting, product development or support, business/system analysis, or a directly related field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement. Advanced degrees may be substituted for a portion of the work experience requirements.

• Minimum five (5) years experience working in product management, including product discovery and developing short-term and long-term product strategies.

• Minimum two (2) years experience developing and validating business cases, including identifying value of investment projects.

• Minimum three (3) years experience working with agile teams, including familiarity with scrum ceremonies and agile best practices.

• Minimum three (3) years experience in strategic planning and building product roadmaps.

• Minimum four (4) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems Management, Data Analytics, Engineering, Social Science, or related field.

• Five (5) years stakeholder management experience.

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Product Manager VI

LOCATION: Pasadena, California

REQNUMBER: 1448672

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.