Remote Technical Product Manager - Data Interoperability

Opala; United States; Remote; USD 128,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Annual bonuses

16 days PTO

Job summary

Opala, a healthcare data and interoperability company, seeks a Technical Product Manager for a remote role. You will define and deliver products enabling real-time, secure healthcare data exchange, interfacing with engineering, customers, and leadership to translate complex problems into scalable solutions.

You will drive roadmaps, own backlogs, and ensure compliance with CMS interoperability rules, HL7 FHIR, and related standards, while partnering with success and implementation teams to align

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of product management experience, preferably in healthcare or health technology.
• Experience working with technical products such as APIs, data platforms, SaaS products, or complex enterprise software.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex customer, business, and technical problems into clear product requirements and solutions.
• Experience partnering closely with software engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working directly with customers and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize competing needs and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
• Comfortable taking ownership and operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive roadmap priorities for assigned areas of Opala's interoperability and data platform.
• Translate company strategy, regulatory requirements, market opportunities, and customer needs into clear product priorities.
• Contribute to and help shape Opala's broader product vision for interoperability, longitudinal health data, and real-time data exchange.
• Evaluate competing opportunities and make thoughtful tradeoffs based on customer value, strategic alignment, scalability, effort, and business impact.
• Translate complex problems into clear product requirements, user stories, workflows, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner closely with Engineering throughout discovery, design, development, and release.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog for assigned product areas.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, product demos, and release planning.
• Make timely product decisions and resolve ambiguity as questions arise during development.
• Ensure products are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with relevant healthcare data and interoperability standards.
• Engage directly with customers to understand workflows, pain points, data needs, and desired outcomes.
• Partner with Customer Success and Implementation to translate customer needs into scalable product capabilities.
• Distinguish customer-specific requirements from broader market needs and reusable product opportunities.
• Participate in customer meetings, product demonstrations, discovery sessions, and solution design discussions.
• Gather customer and market feedback and use it to inform product priorities and roadmap decisions.
• Develop a deep understanding of the healthcare interoperability landscape and emerging customer needs.
• Maintain a strong understanding of evolving CMS interoperability requirements and relevant industry standards and frameworks, including HL7 FHIR and Da Vinci Implementation Guides.
• Translate regulatory requirements into clear product capabilities and priorities.
• Partner with internal subject matter experts to anticipate regulatory and industry changes and incorporate them into product planning.
• Serve as a strong product partner across Engineering, Customer Success, Implementation, Sales, and company leadership.
• Drive alignment and clarity around product priorities, requirements, decisions, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
• Communicate product direction and release plans effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to product documentation, release communications, enablement, and internal training.

Skills

Product management experience

Healthcare domain knowledge

APIs & data platforms

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical & communication skills

Job description

Opala, a healthcare data and interoperability company, seeks a Technical Product Manager for a remote role. You will define and deliver products enabling real-time, secure healthcare data exchange, interfacing with engineering, customers, and leadership to translate complex problems into scalable solutions.

You will drive roadmaps, own backlogs, and ensure compliance with CMS interoperability rules, HL7 FHIR, and related standards, while partnering with success and implementation teams to align