Remote Product Manager

Summary

Join the CDC Foundation as a Product Manager to lead the delivery of high-quality products and systems that improve the availability and use of public health data to inform decision making.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, with a preference for Business, Computer Science, or Information Systems
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in digital product management
• Experience developing a product vision and strategy and have led multi-disciplinary teams to achieve that vision from concept to launch
• Experience collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to translate the product vision and lead the team through smooth and continuous delivery
• Experience working on a mature product balancing the need to address technical debt with new product enhancements through continuous iterations
• Knowledge and experience with project management methodologies, principles and processes
• Experience and an understanding of product objectives, goal and metrics to oversee the development and implementation of large-scale projects
• Experience using data to make decisions, gathering data insights by design to improve product outcomes
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining working relationships with internal and external partners and can effectively promote collaboration among differing viewpoints
• Experience providing guidance in the areas of digital systems/products, data sources and the collection and context of data
• Knowledge of user experience design and user research principles and concepts
• Ability to communicate and articulate problems and resolutions to designers
• Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and teams

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with public health agency programs and technical teams to develop and deliver high-quality, user-friendly technologies that improve access to data for decision making
• Work to understand public health agency needs and processes. Collaborate with the public health agency technical team to create a shared vision for how to best prioritize and address the most critical challenges
• Document business practices and workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, support process improvement, discover issues and deliver improved value
• Assess operational use cases for existing products across the organization and identify duplicative software systems/tools to potentially sunset
• Develop a streamlined product strategy that emphasizes interoperability of software systems/tools utilized across the organization
• Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and requirements
• Oversee the delivery of technical solutions from concept to release, while ensuring smooth operations and continuous product improvement
• Test products and new features to confirm usability and identify bugs
• Apply industry knowledge of best practices, emerging technologies, and product offerings for software solutions to support a streamlined product management approach
• Contribute to product strategy and success metrics, which may include Key Performance Indicator (KPI) models and analytics
• Collaborate in the creation of product development and management documents, including roadmaps, project briefs and user stories
• Be strategic and tactical to help define the product strategy
• Build solid relationships with partners to understand users' needs, program goals, and the program's policies and operational constraints so that you can develop products that are valuable, usable and feasible
• Provide product management advice and guidance to the public health agency and the CDC Foundation to share expertise and build capacity

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to translate user or data insights into actionable design comments and critiques
• Outstanding interpersonal and teamwork skills; and the ability to develop productive working relationships with colleagues and partners
• Experienced in change management and risk management principles and processes to provide leadership in the development of strategic plans and change management initiatives and their roll-out
• Strong understanding of technical concepts and legacy systems
• Capability to embed privacy and security into product delivery processes and design
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365