Technical Product Manager

$109,900 - $146,500/Yr

Vns Healthcare - New York, NY

Full-time

New York, NY

About the position

The position involves managing products throughout their lifecycle, focusing on building a product portfolio as the market matures. The role emphasizes innovation within the technical product domain, leading pilot projects and experiments for new products, while also enhancing existing products to deliver ongoing value to end users. The candidate will advocate for Agile product development and facilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams, driving cultural transformation and best practices in product management.

Responsibilities

• Builds deep understanding of problem statements, pain points, challenges, opportunities, goals, and objectives of the business, considering them as Internal Customers.
• Defines Persona Profiles for Buyers and End Users.
• Builds Product Backlogs for the associated Product Development Teams, defining Features, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria that translate the business requirements into technical requirements for development teams.
• Collaborates closely with Scrum Masters, Product Development Teams and Application Owners to ensure efficient and high-quality execution of Product Development.
• Defines Testing Plans for enhancements and releases, including UAT and working with QA to minimize defects and production support.
• Manages the Release Planning - End User Training, Demonstrations and Outage and Go-Live Communications.
• Leads Outcome Tracking - informs product decisions throughout the lifecycle based on value creation and realization.
• Tracks Product Outcomes - ensures a high quality product is developed and is adopted and utilized effectively.
• Identifies, benchmarks and tracks Operational Outcomes - collaborates with Buyer and End User on the operational outcomes that are critical to success, and tracks KPIs throughout a Product Lifecycle.
• Ensures Value Realization - Assumes Product and Operational Outcomes are being met, ensures the connected business outcomes are being realized.
• Proactively works with internal customers to ensure that emerging needs are met, and value is being continuously delivered.
• Manages risk, and ensures alignment and adherence to corporate, financial and IT standards (e.g., architecture, compliance, security).
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or the equivalent combination of education and work experience required.
• Minimum 5 years of product and/or project management and systems integration experience required.
• Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance multiple stakeholder priorities required.
• Proven track record in managing multiple Science & Technology projects that impact core business operations preferred.
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in a cross-functional environment required.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational and team building skills, business judgment and proven expertise in directing the efforts of technical staff which may or may not report directly to position required.
• Proficiency using software to manage project and project workflows required.
• Experience using SQL (mandatory), Python, R or other data analysis tools preferred.
• Health care industry experience preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Scrum Certified Product Owner certification preferred
• Prior experience with Agile SLDC methodology preferred.

Benefits

• Opportunity to impact lives meaningfully
• Part of a recognized leader and innovator in patient-centered and community-focused health care.