Anticipated End Date:2026-06-16
Position Title:Product Development Director - Data Platforms
Job Description:Product Development Director - Data PlatformsLocation: This role requires associates to be in-office 3 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.
Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.
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Product Development Director will be responsible for managing a digital platform and advances a suite of data and technology products by developing reusable analytic assets, federated and multimodal workflows, and privacy-preserving methods that enable partners to generate trusted insights, and validate solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data engineering, programming, algorithm development, and statistical analysis, along with experience in building data products or platforms in healthcare.
How you will make an impact:- Leads strategy and implementation of new products or product changes/enhancements for all Commercial segments and regions.
- Work with and process large, complex datasets, both structured and unstructured, by handling tasks such as ETL/ELT, metadata extraction, dataset registry, cohort development, and data enrichment/merging to facilitate comprehensive analysis.
- Collaborate with partners to analyze data usage and technology solutions, design and guide the effective use of products, and develop high-quality assets that enhance product development, enablement functions, and differentiate our offerings in the market.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to package methods for operational use, and enhance products with advanced computational techniques and an expanded analytics tech stack, including LLM co-piloting, natural language prompting, and no/low-code integrations.
- Monitors product performance and the competitive environment to ensure products meet competitive and legislative needs.
- Adheres to product development policies and processes to guide product development.
- Responsible for innovation and development of products for both new and existing markets.
- Coordinates presentation, communication and implementation of all phases of product development.
- Ensures all products are compliant with regulatory directives and state/federal laws and policies.
- Serves as a product expert and a relationship manager to the core clients.
- Collaborates with matrix partners across the company to deliver product solutions in a timely and effective manner.
- Monitor competitive, regulatory, economic and other environment to gauge product impacts or opportunities.
Minimum Requirements:Requires a BA/BS degree and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experience:- Master's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Econometrics, Physics, Biostatistics, Information Systems, or a related field, and three (3) years of experience strongly preferred.
- Cross training in data engineering and healthcare data analytics strongly preferred.
- Three (3) years of experience with data sandboxes or Trusted Research Environments (TREs) strongly preferred.
- Strong skills in Python and R; familiarity with Spark, SQL, and distributed computing environments strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to codify analytic methods into reproducible templates (e.g., Jupyter, R Markdown) strongly preferred.
- Ability to integrate and analyze multimodal health datasets strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding and experience with cloud environments and cloud computing platforms preferred.
- Proficiency in building and managing data platforms and products strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with product management principles, advanced analytics, algorithm development, and machine learning capabilities preferred.
- Excellent written, oral, presentation and interpersonal communication skills with the proven ability to negotiate expectations between multiple parties strongly preferred.
Job Level:Director Equivalent
Workshift:1st Shift (United States of America)
Job Family:MKT > Product, Prog/Proj & Support
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