At our company, you can contribute to solving health care challenges within our health-focused team. This group is looking for a program manager to help us create a product which combines the best parts of our current consumer and enterprise products to provide more efficient and better quality care for patients and their physicians.
This individual will engage with a current team to work cross functionally to develop a market-ready product. The program manager will work with product management, user experience, interaction design, development/engineering, product marketing, testing, and many other areas to achieve the goal of releasing web- and software-based products. Experience in all the core aspects of bringing a product to market is a major plus.
This individual must possess high initiative and have the ability to work in a strong team environment. This role requires excellent communication, writing and organizational skills, in addition to being able to manage deadlines and deliverables, and to effectively direct the efforts of a cross-functional team. The ideal candidate has experience in both consumer facing web products and enterprise software products, with a strong eye towards usability in both fields. This individual should possess solid business skills plus a basic technical understanding of features and functionality. Previous coding experience is not required for this position. Please note, for this particular project, there are two program mangers assigned.
Job Responsibilities:
1) Drive day-to-day team management, including engineering and user experience teams through to feature delivery.
2) Work with the user experience, interaction design, and visual design teams to obtain consensus on the design of features and functionality included in the product.
3) Work closely with the user experience and interaction design teams to drive creation of navigation models, wireframes, visual design, and user scenarios.
4) Manage a prioritized backlog of user stories and provide acceptance criteria/specifications to the teams for each user story as required.
5) Manage the overall project scope, schedule and resources.
6) Be a tremendous advocate for the end user of the products.
7) Effectively manage project risks, issues, and assumptions with a clear understanding of when to escalate.
8) Work with privacy, legal, and security teams to ensure the product meets all needed requirements.
Qualifications:
- Looking for someone with experience at “the largest software company in the world”
- 3+ years of program/project management experience.
- Experience working directly with user experience, interaction design, and visual design teams.
- BA/BS required in a related field or equivalent.
- Detail oriented with the ability to effectively manage project scope, schedule, and resourcing.
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills including the ability to coordinate data from a variety of sources.
- Team player with good interpersonal skills who is able to perform well under pressure.
- Knowledge of the health care market, specifically hospital and/or physician practice work flows is preferred.
- Familiarity with the Agile development methodology is preferred.
Please send resumes to agarber (at) aquent (dot) com
