VP-Product Management

We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate.  We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways. 

At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters.  Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today! 

This job operates independently to own and drive the entire product lifecycle for a portfolio of products. Drives product/business results through multiple disciplines and across the enterprise.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at the company’s discretion.

Education

Required – Bachelor’s degree in business, technical, or related field.

Preferred – Master’s degree in business, technical, or related field.

Work Experience

Required – 10 years of experience leading multi-functional team(s) to deliver organizational scale for products, programs, and other engineering initiatives.  Experience managing multifunctional teams including product managers, analytics, user experience, and software development.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

• Ability to drive product/business results through multiple disciplines and across the enterprise.

• Leadership skills and ability to lead teams in support of the mission, vision, and values of the organization and team.

• Proficiency in using computers, software, and web-based applications.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally.

• Financial skills and ability to articulate how the work of the entire product team affects or is impacted by the financial state of the organization.

• Time management skills and ability to work under tight deadlines and inspire the team to produce high quality work within these parameters.

• Teamwork skills and ability to affectively balances stakeholders and needs of the team to execute the product management strategy.

• Highly developed knowledge of product management work and ability to effectively use that knowledge to direct the work of the team.

Job Duties

• Makes tradeoff decisions on what products to invest Connected Health time in, assesses nebulous products, and sets requirements.

• Invents channels with customers, stakeholders, and partners to identify problem areas that technology can solve and autonomously owns business case for new product ideas.

• Assesses partnerships to drive make versus buy decisions to improve the patient offering.

• Influences and communicates the product roadmap across business, operations, and software stakeholders.

• Defines the growth strategy for a portfolio of products, modeling impact both financially and to patient experience, communicates tradeoff decisions to stakeholders and convince senior leaders to invest in a product, and owns tradeoff decisions on how to best resource.

• Proactively identifies barriers to product scale, partners with more junior product leaders to write business case to further investment in the product, influences leadership to invest in required scale, and serves as decision-maker on where to make product investments.

• Invents the metrics for a portfolio of products and institutes mechanisms to hold product leaders accountable to driving the most important product features using said metrics.

• Makes organizational design decisions that impacts trajectory of products and the overall Connected Health Product Team, owns the business case, and creates a sphere of influence across stakeholder groups to attain necessary resources for product scale.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.

Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state, and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations, and standards.

This employer maintains and complies with its Compliance & Privacy Program and Standards of Conduct, including the immediate reporting of any known or suspected unethical or questionable behaviors or conduct; patient/employee safety, patient privacy, and/or other compliance-related concerns. The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Physical and Environmental Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. NOTE: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.

Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissue and as part of their employment, incumbents are not called upon to perform or assist in emergency care or first aid.

The incumbent has no occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases.

Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.

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Ochsner is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected class, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.