Health IT Product Manager - Public Trust clearance at Initiate Government Solutions

Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) a Woman Owned Small Business. We are a fully remote IT services provider that delivers innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions across the federal sector. Our focus is on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, and the modernization of federal information systems.
 

IGS uses ISO 9001:2015, 20000-1:2018, 27001:2013, 28001:2007, CMMI/SVC3, CMMI/DEV3 best practices, and PMBOK® methods to provide clients with a strategy to build solid foundations to grow capabilities and revenue. Our range of IT services and delivery methodologies are tailored to our customers’ unique needs to achieve maximum value.

IGS is currently recruiting for the position of a full-time Health IT Product Manager to support professional, scientific, and technical subject matter expertise services. 

The mission is supporting the building of an engagement and digital data platform, mobilizing rich and constantly evolving data from electronic health records, biospecimens, and questionnaires, to physical evaluations, sensors, and other technologies. The program will support research at the intersection of lifestyle, environment, electronic health records, claims data, personal health information, and genetics to produce new knowledge, leading to the development of innovative prevention strategies and treatments for foundational health challenges.

Services include but are not limited to supporting strategic planning; analysis of existing and emerging health IT solutions, including incorporation of electronic health records along with other personal, biologic, and health data streams to support precision health research; requirements gathering; documentation, implementation, and operation and maintenance support for projects in all stages of their life cycle; and product and project management for the entire program.

Assignment of Work and Travel:

Nearly all work shall be performed at a Federally controlled facility in the Rockville, Maryland, area and remote as needed.

Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):

• Support efforts to coordinate cross-functional teams of engineers, UX and visual designers to focus on the product line that fulfills the Program’s goals. 
• Have strong expertise and skills in health IT and emerging health IT solutions that will be needed to manage the health data analytics of the scale and scope of the Program. 
• Support services include, but is not limited to, the following: 

o Working closely with user experience (UX) teams to incorporate user research into product decisions; continually staying updated on changes to user habits, preferences, and behaviors and their implications for successful delivery of the platform.

o Using data to make product recommendations, including recommendations on existing and emerging health IT solutions to support the integration of various health data streams. 

o Leading the product management lifecycle from concept to launch to end of life for a specific product, product group, or product line, including the health information technology needed to support the research goals of the Program. 

o Managing, tracking, and reporting product performance through this lifecycle including product strategy, product planning and feature/issue prioritization.

o Ensure new product features and updates are delivered reliably, efficiently, and to full specifications. 

o Providing input to the Program in applying new and improved Health IT systems and technologies that will enable scientists and researchers across a broad spectrum of specialty fields to successfully use electronic health records, coupled to behavioral, lifestyle, genomic, wearable, and other biologic data to significantly advance precision health. 

o Communicating health IT principles, concepts, and methods to the Program to facilitate the adoption of new systems and technologies that support a broad range of research protocols. 

o Supporting the necessary modernization of infrastructure to ensure health data integrity, security, connectivity, and operability across the Program platform.

o Facilitating the development of state-of-the-art health IT systems and structures to ensure rapid, reliable, interoperable, scalable, and secure systems responsive to health research. 

Requirements

Health IT Product Manager IV

• Master’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline, or Bachelors + 2 additional years relevant experience; Associates + 4 additional years relevant experience; or 6 additional years relevant experience.
• 8 years’ experience satisfying product deliverables for varying persona(s), current and future products support by data-driven market research and project needs; ability to validate concepts, themes, visions, and prototypes; ability to ensure product plans align with program mission; developing road map of planned releases and project initiatives. Offer input that improves the quality and speed of the development process. 

Health IT Product Manager III

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline, or High School diploma or GED + 3 additional years relevant experience; Associates + 2 additional years relevant experience; or 4 additional years relevant experience
• 6 years’ experience satisfying product deliverables for varying persona(s), current and future products support by data-driven market research and project needs; ability to validate concepts, themes, visions, and prototypes; ability to ensure product plans align with program mission; developing road map of planned releases and project initiatives. Offer input that improves the quality and speed of the development process. 

Health IT Product Manager I 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline, or High School diploma or GED + 3 additional years relevant experience; Associates + 2 additional years relevant experience; or 4 additional years relevant experience.
• Preferred experience satisfying product deliverables for varying persona(s), current and future products support by data-driven market research and project needs; ability to validate concepts, themes, visions, and prototypes; ability to ensure product plans align with program mission; developing road map of planned releases and project initiatives. Offer input that improves the quality and speed of the development process.

Additional Requirements:

• Provides product guidance from the idea stage to launch, develops new ideas based on research and/or experience.· Collaborates with a variety of sources and stakeholders, including but not limited to, technology, UX, and business. 
• Ability to support multiple phases of work on an on-going basis, to include, research, scoping, design, development, analysis, marketing, etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. 
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship due to clearance requirement.  

Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies:

• Active Public Trust
• Product Manager Certifications
• Prior, successful experience working in a remote environment.

Successful IGS employees embody the following Core Values:

• Integrity, Honesty, and Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest level of ethics. Doing things like being accountable for mistakes, accepting helpful criticism, and following through on commitments to ourselves, each other, and our customers. 
• Empathy, Emotional Intelligence: How we interact with others including peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and customers matters. We take collective responsibility to create an environment where colleagues and customers feel valued, included, and respected. We work within a diverse, integrated, and collaborative team to drive towards accomplishing the larger mission. We conscientiously and meticulously learn about our customers’ and end-users’ business drivers and challenges to ensure solutions meet not only technical needs but also support their mission.
• Strong Work Ethic (Reliability, Dedication, Productivity): We are driven by a strong, self-motivated, and results-driven work ethic. We are reliable, accountable, proactive, and tenacious and will do what it takes to get the job done. 
• Life-Long Learner (Curious, Perspective, Goal Orientated): We challenge ourselves to continually learn and improve ourselves. We strive to be an expert in our field, continuously honing our craft, and finding solutions where others see problems.  

Compensation: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary, including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.

Initiate Government Solutions offers competitive compensation and a robust benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care, matching 401K and profit sharing, paid time off, training time for personal development, flexible spending accounts, employer-paid life insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage, an education assistance program with potential merit increases for obtaining a work-related certification, employee recognition, and referral programs, spot bonuses, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for the employee and their family.

Initiate Government Solutions participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program.

Initiate Government Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. Our company policy is to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment practice without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, or disability.