Product Manager

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.

Working within California Department of Public Health, Center for Infectious Disease Informatics Branch, the Product Manager will provide technical leadership, developing and managing implementation plan for CDPH to receive additional infectious disease surveillance data from our Los Angeles County (LAC) and San Diego (SD) County partners.

The incumbent will oversee the expansion of our cloud- based data warehouse, the Integrated Infectious Disease Data Warehouse (I2D2) and improve and modernize our data exchange infrastructure, from one that is currently manual and ill-defined, to an automated, standardized, and streamlined process.

• 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.
• The Product Manager will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the California Department of Public Health, Center for Infectious Disease Informatics Branch.

This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for based candidates.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with public health agency programs and technical teams to develop and integrate infectious disease data from CalREDIE, LAC, and SD.
• Developing an understanding of the current infrastructure and framework for programs to access and receive data from CalREDIE, LAC, and SD.
• Defining a tailored architecture plan that will be required to facilitate centralized data transmission from LAC and SD.
• Ensuring data exchange efforts align with security protocols and data governance standards.
• Establishing processes for intake from LAC cloud / data lake to I2D2, ensuring efficient data flow and synchronization.
• Oversee the delivery of technical solutions from concept to release, while ensuring smooth operations and continuous product improvement.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

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.