Position Summary:
This role manages the product for a functional area. People management for product managers. Leads multiple initiatives spanning full lifecycle. Strong understanding of options for expansion & contraction of zone investment. This role builds 3-year shared vision for zone direction, with other functional leads both within the Analytics Org and across other product organizations at athenahealth.
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
25% Interpreting strategy into visions and actionable plans for the product

• Leads multiple initiatives spanning full lifecycle; creates multi-release product roadmaps (multi-release) and communicates internally, noting the stages and timelines for various work.
• Works with the Product Leadership to prioritize problems or themes to reach desired outcomes
• Determines appropriate experiments, alpha and beta stages to determine Product-Market fit for new products
• Prioritizes the initiatives for the scrum teams per release and coaches teams to create sprint goals
• Works with the UX team to identify and understand the user problems and requirements
• Analyzes the scope of the product area and makes decisions about the actions needed on how to proceed to realize the outcomes outlined in the product strategy
• Conduct analysis for new initiatives; gathers information, end user feedback and experiments to reduce uncertainty
• Identifies product gaps and defines requirements to fill these product gaps

25% Executing on products with a cross-functional R&D team

• Works with the developers and designers to build a product that meets the expected outcomes and market needs
• Works with both UX and Development to understand design or technology implications in solution ideas
• Build, groom and prioritize a backlog
• Articulates crisp user requirements, user stories and documentation
• Communicates requirements and constraints and facilitates the team in a brainstorm to figure out how to best satisfy needs from the customer and the business.
• Works with the product leadership to recommend the best course of action to achieve intents.
• Verifies and provides feedback on requirements as delivered to ensure they are solving business problems
• Gains alignment from multiple stakeholders; recognize the need for alignment
• Understands product dependencies and negotiates the trade-offs with the appropriate product managers.
• Participates in scrum meetings i.e. daily stand-up, sprint planning, readouts and retrospective

50 % Team Management

• Defines roles and responsibilities of direct reports
• Sets and monitors annual performance goals & objectives, including responsibility for performance appraisals
• Responsible for development of direct reports, by identifying training needs and providing training and/or development opportunities
• Recommends or initiates personnel action
• Termination/disciplinary authority of direct reports

Education, Experience, & Skills Required

• Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters preferred; Degree (Bachelor’s or Masters) in Computer Science, Business, or Product Design preferred
• 12+ years overall experience, inclusive of 10+ years of product management experience
• Experience leading and managing a team of Product Managers or Product Owners
• Experience working with Agile (Scrum) teams required
• Understanding of healthcare / health IT environment a plus
• Experience developing new data, reporting, analytics, AL/ML products a plus
• Experience working in a microservice-focused environment a plus
• Experience testing and validating value of new products in the market
• Demonstrated success at driving vision and prioritization of products in a dynamic environment using analytic and quantitative capabilities
• Ability to explain your positioning to various people around the company in an effective way
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially with senior leaders and customers

Behaviors & Abilities Required:

• Ability to make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Ability to focus on the desired outcomes and value for both the business and the customers when making decisions regarding execution and delivery.
• Ability to work in conjunction with engineering and design estimate the level of effort, dependencies, blockers, and contingencies.
• Ability to understand the value of and can create strong problem statements and metrics that are actionable, focused, and inspiring to achieve correct business outcomes.

Position Summary:
This role manages the product for a functional area. People management for product managers. Leads multiple initiatives spanning full lifecycle. Strong understanding of options for expansion & contraction of zone investment. This role builds 3-year shared vision for zone direction, with other functional leads both within the Analytics Org and across other product organizations at athenahealth.
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
25% Interpreting strategy into visions and actionable plans for the product

• Leads multiple initiatives spanning full lifecycle; creates multi-release product roadmaps (multi-release) and communicates internally, noting the stages and timelines for various work.
• Works with the Product Leadership to prioritize problems or themes to reach desired outcomes
• Determines appropriate experiments, alpha and beta stages to determine Product-Market fit for new products
• Prioritizes the initiatives for the scrum teams per release and coaches teams to create sprint goals
• Works with the UX team to identify and understand the user problems and requirements
• Analyzes the scope of the product area and makes decisions about the actions needed on how to proceed to realize the outcomes outlined in the product strategy
• Conduct analysis for new initiatives; gathers information, end user feedback and experiments to reduce uncertainty
• Identifies product gaps and defines requirements to fill these product gaps

25% Executing on products with a cross-functional R&D team

• Works with the developers and designers to build a product that meets the expected outcomes and market needs
• Works with both UX and Development to understand design or technology implications in solution ideas
• Build, groom and prioritize a backlog
• Articulates crisp user requirements, user stories and documentation
• Communicates requirements and constraints and facilitates the team in a brainstorm to figure out how to best satisfy needs from the customer and the business.
• Works with the product leadership to recommend the best course of action to achieve intents.
• Verifies and provides feedback on requirements as delivered to ensure they are solving business problems
• Gains alignment from multiple stakeholders; recognize the need for alignment
• Understands product dependencies and negotiates the trade-offs with the appropriate product managers.
• Participates in scrum meetings i.e. daily stand-up, sprint planning, readouts and retrospective

50 % Team Management

• Defines roles and responsibilities of direct reports
• Sets and monitors annual performance goals & objectives, including responsibility for performance appraisals
• Responsible for development of direct reports, by identifying training needs and providing training and/or development opportunities
• Recommends or initiates personnel action
• Termination/disciplinary authority of direct reports

Education, Experience, & Skills Required

• Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters preferred; Degree (Bachelor’s or Masters) in Computer Science, Business, or Product Design preferred
• 12+ years overall experience, inclusive of 10+ years of product management experience
• Experience leading and managing a team of Product Managers or Product Owners
• Experience working with Agile (Scrum) teams required
• Understanding of healthcare / health IT environment a plus
• Experience developing new data, reporting, analytics, AL/ML products a plus
• Experience working in a microservice-focused environment a plus
• Experience testing and validating value of new products in the market
• Demonstrated success at driving vision and prioritization of products in a dynamic environment using analytic and quantitative capabilities
• Ability to explain your positioning to various people around the company in an effective way
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially with senior leaders and customers

Behaviors & Abilities Required:

• Ability to make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Ability to focus on the desired outcomes and value for both the business and the customers when making decisions regarding execution and delivery.
• Ability to work in conjunction with engineering and design estimate the level of effort, dependencies, blockers, and contingencies.
• Ability to understand the value of and can create strong problem statements and metrics that are actionable, focused, and inspiring to achieve correct business outcomes.