Senior Product Manager - Humedica - Boston, MA

Innovation. Adaptability. A passion for analytics and problem solving. If those traits brought you here, this opportunity can take you much further. Humedica, now part of Optum, is serving the health care marketplace with the information tools and analytics solutions that will fuel change going forward. We're well past big data. In fact, we're using great data to uncover new solutions and novel marketplace opportunities. If you thrive on making an impact in an evolving market, we should be talking. Join the expanding family of UnitedHealth Group companies and help shape history. You'll help us improve the lives of others while doing your life's best work.(sm)

Humedica is looking for smart, motivated people who are passionate about using information technology to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of the health care system. We develop analytic information systems for physicians and hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers that extract and present data employing near real time analytics. Humedica received the highest score in the KLAS 2011 Business Intelligence Report.

The environment is fast paced and innovative. Our team is highly self-directed. We are looking for others to join us who will take ownership of responsibility, work collaboratively and always look for ways to add to the personal and professional growth of the company and their peers. Humedica offers the opportunity for rapid advancement in responsibilities.

We are looking for a business analyst with strong requirements definition and communication skills to join the Product Management team.  The Product Management team is responsible for contributing to and developing a product roadmap aimed at both strategic and tactical business and market initiatives.  The candidate will work across the organization; with development, quality assurance, client services, product marketing, and data management.

Our ideal candidate will have experience designing clinical and/or financial healthcare products.  Knowledge of healthcare risk models, and understanding of the provider and health insurance relationship is ideal, but not required.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and communicate product roadmap 
  
  
  
  • Prioritize product needs across multiple stakeholders (including strategic and tactical)
  
  
  • Develop new concepts throughout the process of ideation, business case development, product management, and software development
  
  
  • Communicate near term roadmap to stakeholders for review and input
  
  
  • Develop a one year proposed roadmap including rationale for product direction
  
  
  • Serve as the product advocate internally and externally
  
  
  • Analyze product opportunities and develop supporting business cases when needed
  
  
  • Support business development, revenue generation, and increased profitability
  
  
  • Become knowledgeable on the competitive landscape 


• Gather business requirements
  
  
  
  • Conduct requirements gathering activities (e.g., meetings, workshops, JAD sessions)

  
  
  • Develop business context diagrams (e.g., business data flows, process flows) to analyze/confirm the definition of project requirements

  
  
  • Define desired future state requirements based on input from all applicable stakeholders

  
  
  • Identify the business impact of system/application changes


• Communicate business requirements 
  
  
  
  • Partner with Engineering on development planning and implementation
  
  
  • Communicate business requirements to User Experience team to enable the usable design meeting requirements and end user expectations
  
  
  • Ensure that project requirements are clearly and comprehensively documented, understood and support traceability
  
  
  • Communicate ongoing updates to all stakeholders to ensure understanding of and alignment with project status/changes
  
  
  • Perform requirement reviews with all stakeholders
  
  
  • Identify capability gaps between current state and desired state (e.g., system capacity, emerging technologies)


• Support testing
  
  
  
  • Identify and/or establish appropriate testing metrics/targets to validate that business requirements are being met (e.g., performance metrics, process deliverables, traceability, business value)
  
  
  • Support engineering with bug triage, requirement clarification and enhancement request analysis
  
  
  • Make pragmatic decisions on scope changes during the project lifecycle and communicate changes to stakeholders
  
  
  • Translate problems/issues identified during the testing/piloting process, and engage the appropriate stakeholders (e.g., business, IT) to help identify impact and potential solutions


• Drive product adoption and deployment
  
  
  
  • Work closely with marketing to develop marketing collateral to support sales
  
  
  • Ensure training and implementation are educated on new product features
  
  
  • Serve as a subject matter expert to assist client implementation to maximize product benefits
  
  
  • Participate in client and prospect visits as a subject matter expert

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledgeable in technology


• Bachelor's degree in business, science, engineering or related field


• Ability to work creatively and flexibly, both independently and as part of a team


• Attention to fine details and work processes


• Desire and ability to learn new skills, systems and processes


• Excellent organizational, and written and oral communications skills


• 2-5+ years of experience with software products

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software marketing/product management experience


• 3-5+ years of healthcare software experience


• Experience working in the healthcare vertical as part of a consulting company


• Knowledge of claims processing and risk models

Innovation. Adaptability. A passion for analytics and problem solving. If those traits brought you here, this opportunity can take you much further. Humedica, now part of Optum, is serving the health care marketplace with the information tools and analytics solutions that will fuel change going forward. We're well past “big data.” In fact, we're using “great data” to uncover new solutions and novel marketplace opportunities. If you thrive on making an impact in an evolving market, we should be talking. Join the expanding family of UnitedHealth Group companies and help shape history. You'll help us improve the lives of others while doing your life's best work.(sm)