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Job Highlights
Location: Remote, must be based in the United States
Salary Range: $103,500 - $143,500 per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate.
Office Hours: Availability for meetings between 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Eastern Time with flexibility dependent on employee location.
Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity
Position End Date: June 30, 2025
Overview:
The Product Manager will lead the delivery of high-quality products and systems that improve the availability and use of public health data to inform decision making. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation’s public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements.
This role is best for someone who is mission driven and is comfortable bringing a product mindset to organizations who may be unfamiliar with this approach.
Working within the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness, the Product Manager will help increase the public health agency’s capacity to build the modern systems, tools and technology they need to address public health needs effectively. The Product Manager will support the department with defining solution requirements for the procurement or development of mobile data entry/collection mechanisms. This solution will be deployed by field staff who work daily to provide harm reduction and behavioral health equity-related interventions in populations at risk for drug misuse and/or overdose.
The Product Manager will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based
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 define requirements.
- Conduct a market/alternative analysis based on requirements and determine whether to purchase or develop a solution.
- Oversee the delivery of technical solutions from concept to release, while ensuring smooth operations and continuous product improvement.
- Define and document requirements and use cases and assure these are correctly understood by developers. This includes leading requirements gathering sessions with Louisville Metro Government staff.
- Test products and new features to confirm usability and identify bugs.
- 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 (e.g., Data Engineer; security, app development and information technology teams; end users) 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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum of 8 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.
- Prior experience in a business analyst role is a plus.
- 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 (e.g., domain-driven design, Agile), principles and processes.
- Experience and an understanding of product objectives, goal and metrics to oversee the development and implementation of large-scale projects.
- 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.
- Experience with product training, implementation, and related communications are a plus.
- 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.
- Strong understanding of technical concepts and legacy systems.
- Capability to embed privacy and security into product delivery processes and design.
- Knowledge of user experience design and user research principles and concepts.
- Ability to communicate and articulate problems and resolutions to designers.
- 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.
- Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and teams.
Special Notes
This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.
We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.
The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.
Relocation expenses are not included.
