Product Manager

About the job

You’ll join a cross-functional, dynamic team building healthcare data APIs to support more effective and affordable healthcare. The team you'll join is responsible for maintaining and enhancing high volume healthcare benefit and claim APIs that ingest and stream ~350 million claim changes and ~7 million requests every month. We’d love to find someone who is a great fit to take the product helm on the project team, and can also help Verdance develop a strong product practice closely attuned to the needs of the civic tech space. 

Here are our top priorities for this role:

• 5+ years of product management experience 

• Deep experience with product management of APIs

• Significant bonuses:

  • Healthcare or claims API experience

  • Any prior professional exposure with mainframes or COBOL

Here’s what we hope you bring:

• Impeccable written and verbal communication and presentation skills, which you’ll apply to bring clarity and alignment to the complex government health tech space

• Ability to deeply understand and balance design, research, engineering, and stakeholder constraints and priorities

• Strong product artifact creation skills

• A deep understanding of how to monitor product metrics to ensure software features are performing as expected

• Ability to fluidly manage a backlog of user stories and tasks that reflects product priorities 

• Interest and experience in building an org-wide product management practice

• Desire to learn about government and help make it better

• Desire to work at a small company focused on thoughtful growth

• Curiosity, scrappiness, patience, and humility

Here’s what we’re offering in return:

• 140-167k salary range (depending on seniority)

• 4 weeks PTO per year + federal holidays

• Insurance, including dental and vision

• 401(k) with 4% match

• 10 weeks paid parental leave

• Flexible work schedule

• A interview process that respects your time

• Non-mandatory in-person team retreats - we ask for your commitment to the work, but if you’re interested in building community, that’s great too!

Some administrative requirements of our government contracts:

• Work authorization in the US

• All work must take place in the continental US

• Team members must have lived in the US for 3 out of the past 5 years

• You'll have to pass a public trust government background investigation

A little more about us

Verdance is a public interest technology firm, spun up to help government partners navigate critical technology challenges. We’re a small company with deep experience working in government settings - before Verdance, we’ve started modern technology teams in Congress, helped rebuild HealthCare.gov, and redesigned social safety net systems for Veterans.