Sr Director, IT Product Management (EPIC Outpatient & Specialty Modules)

Upon start, selected candidate must reside in CA, CO, GA, HI, MD, OR, or WA. Also, since this position is designated as flexible, the selected candidate may be required to report to the office up to 3 days per week.

Job Summary:
This senior director role is primarily responsible for directing team(s) in defining product strategy and vision, overseeing product roadmaps from ideation to launch across multiple functional areas, and driving and approving decisions on new products or enhancements to bring to market. This includes reviewing and selecting business cases for new products, improvements to existing products, and/or business ventures; defining, overseeing, and avoiding technical debt; providing direction and oversight to product team(s) and influencing diverse stakeholder groups across the organization throughout the product management life cycle, and building and leveraging partnerships with operations teams and market stakeholders to support product adoption. This role is also responsible for directing internal and external discovery for new and existing products; overseeing end-to-end prototyping and validation with end users; ensuring learnings are funneled to product roadmaps; overseeing the ongoing tracking of outcomes, financials, and key performance indicators; and directing and overseeing product teams to ensure the resolution of complex or high impact user problems.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Oversees the operation of multiple units and departments by identifying customer and operational needs; analyzing resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; engaging strategic, cross-functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; anticipating and removing obstacles that impact performance; addressing performance gaps and implementing contingency plans accordingly; ensuring products and/or services meet customer requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies; serving as a subject-matter expert and trusted source to executive leadership; and providing influence and consultation in the development of the larger organizational or business strategy.
• Models and drives continuous learning and maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross-functional resource plans with business objectives; overseeing the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; motivating and empowering teams; building organizational capacity and grooming high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; staying current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; providing guidance and leadership when difficult decisions need to be made; and ensuring performance management guidelines and expectations drive business needs.
• Directs team(s) in defining product strategy and vision, and oversees product roadmaps from ideation to launch across multiple functional areas by driving and approving decisions on new products or enhancements to bring to market; reviewing the evaluation of potential business process changes, system impacts, and flow concepts to determine the viability of implementing desired enhancements; ensuring the provision of an end-to-end holistic view of how specific business processes and internal system configurations impact the user experience; reviewing and selecting business cases for new products, improvements to existing products, and/or business ventures; defining, overseeing, and avoiding technical debt as appropriate; managing product and operational budgets; ensuring documentation clearly communicates customer/stakeholder needs to the product team; and partnering with team members to clarify features and requirements as necessary.
• Provides direction and oversight to product team(s) and influences diverse stakeholder groups across the organization throughout the product management life cycle by driving the resolution of inter-squad, cross-product and external dependencies, roadblocks and constraints; building and leveraging partnerships with operations teams and market stakeholders to support product adoption; overseeing the development of strategic training efforts to build readiness for production support and operational readiness teams; leading feature demos for executive stakeholders; providing advanced product expertise, peer training, and consultation as appropriate; ensuring adherence to enterprise compliance standards; and managing technology risks as appropriate.
• Directs the internal and external discovery for new and existing products by leveraging partnerships with key stakeholders to identify business needs; ensuring the identification and selection of best in class marketplace innovation; overseeing prototyping and validation with end users with support from UX design and research, engineering, and other stakeholders as appropriate; and ensuring learnings are funneled to the product roadmap.
• Oversees the ongoing tracking of outcomes, financials, and key performance indicators by reviewing KPIs and performance metrics (e.g., speed, quality, etc.); reviewing key metrics and verifying KPI alignment; and directing the development and maintenance of ad hoc reports, status updates, and presentation decks for key stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Directs and oversees product team members to ensure the resolution of user problems for complex and high impact issues by ensuring the work backlog is prioritized and balanced across new development, non-functional requirements, and technical work (e.g., maintenance, support, technical debt, etc.); and overseeing competitive and user research/testing, experimentation, and design thinking initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Constructive Feedback
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Building
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Analytical Skills
• Client Focus
• Conflict Resolution
• Cross Department Coordination
• Debugging and Troubleshooting
• Delegation
• Demonstrating Personal Flexibility
• Getting Work Done Through Others
• IT Service Design and Introduction
• IT Service Improvement
• IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
• ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Consultation
• Innovative Mindset
• Managing Diverse Relationships
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Negotiation
• Organizational Skills
• Prioritization
• Relationship Building
• Risk Management
• Technical Communication
• Technical Documentation
• Vendor Management

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems Management, Data Analytics, Engineering, Social Science, or related field and minimum twelve (12) years experience in product management, project management, IT consulting, product development or support, business/system analysis, or a directly related field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement. Advanced degrees may be substituted for a portion of the work experience requirements.
• Minimum six (6) years experience working in product management, including product discovery and developing short-term and long-term product strategies.
• Minimum two (2) years experience developing and validating business cases, including identifying value of investment projects.
• Minimum three (3) years experience working with agile teams, including familiarity with scrum ceremonies and agile best practices.
• Minimum four (4) years experience in strategic planning and building product roadmaps.
• Minimum five (5) years supervisory experience managing direct reports.
• Four (4) years experience managing operational or project budgets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems Management, Data Analytics, Engineering, Social Science, or related field.
• Five (5) years stakeholder management experience.

Primary Location: California,Pleasanton,Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building A Additional Locations:

• Portland
• Pasadena
• Honolulu
• Greenwood Village
• Atlanta
• Hyattsville
• Renton

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Director/Senior Director
Department: KPIT ADMIN - HC SI STR N ITG SVCS - 9601
Pay Range: $220800 - $285670 / year Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente.
Travel: Yes, 15 % of the Time
Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.