Lead Product Owner

Your Future Evolves Here

Your Future Evolves Here:

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.

Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Evolent Health is looking for a Lead Product Owner within our Common Data portfolio to be a key member of the Product team, focused the construction of a new Data Platform. This individual will play a critical role in executing Evolent Health’s mission by defining market requirements and packaging the features into product releases.

• Serve as a product owner on an Agile development team for Common and Foundational Data
• Define, document, and communicate requirements for Evolent’s Data Platform based on stakeholder input and research
• Works with the Product Manager to translate the roadmap features into well-defined development criteria including features, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop new features and enhance existing functionality
• Manage the documentation and intake of technical debt items from the engineering team to maintain a complete and prioritized backlog
• Participate in issue/risk mitigation and creative solutioning to deliver within established time and resource constraints
• Communicate effectively with relevant parties throughout all phases of development and surface project risks and changes to delivery timelines
• Drive system user acceptance
• Support creation of training and product documentation (release notes, user guides) to ensure user understanding of data and software features
• Organize and perform regular product demonstrations of new feature functionality to the stakeholder teams
• Participate in established production support process, including reproduction of reported issue and gap analysis of actual and expected functionality
• Provides direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders
• Plans and prioritizes product feature backlog and software development for the product
• Sets expectations with stakeholders and strategically plan sprint and release cycles to deliver incremental value, in keeping with the MVP model
• Work with Business domain technical leads and Engineering Technical leads to make sure all software is being built to the desired functional specifications
• Key participant in user acceptance testing (externally and internally) and systems sign-off
• Exceptional communicator with the ability to coordinate and builds strong teamwork across domain level product, engineer, stakeholder teams through Technical Domain Forums (bringing all Pos, Lead engineers, and stakeholders into a consistent forum to cross collaborate)
• Ability to synthesize technical communications for executive level presentations and delivery through Executive Level Roadmap Steering Committee forums

Qualifications Required and Preferred:  

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2+ years’ experience in healthcare, IT, analytics, and/or product management
• Familiarity with agile scrum methodologies
• Experience working with FHIR – based solutions in the Healthcare IT space
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and track multiple tasks to successful completion
• Team player that is assertive, passionate, and goal-oriented
• Interested in exploring the application of new and emerging technologies to meet business needs
• Proven track record in establishing strong relationships with stakeholders
• Competencies in disseminating product vision and strategy across teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong analytical and research skills
• Microsoft Office experience (Word, Excel, Visio)
• Understanding of healthcare data formats (e.g., eligibility, claims, configuration, authorizations, clinical data) is preferred
• Prior Experience with SQL, python, statistical software or equivalent programming language is preferred
• Experience writing product documentation (release notes, user guides) is preferred
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence is preferred

Technical Requirements:

We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router. These at-home technical requirements are subject to change with any scheduled re-opening of our office locations. 

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.

The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $89,000 - 120,000. This position is also eligible for a bonus component that would be dependent on pre-defined performance factors. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.