Product Manager
Listed on 2026-10-19
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Join the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and be part of a team committed to creating a positive impact in the lives of fellow Texans. At HHSC, your contributions matter, and we support you at each stage of your life and work journey. Our comprehensive benefits package includes 100% paid employee health insurance for full-time eligible employees, a defined benefit pension plan, generous time off benefits, numerous opportunities for career advancement and more.
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Title:
Product Manager
Job Title: Information Technology BA IV
Agency: Health & Human Services Comm
Department: MMIS Staff APD Internal 90/10
Posting Number: 17289
Closing Date: 11/27/2026
Posting Audience: Internal and External
Occupational Category: Computer and Mathematical
Salary Range: $7,015.16-$7,167.00
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Salary Group: TEXAS-B-27
Shift: Day
Additional Shift:
Telework:
Travel:
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full Time/Part Time: Full time
FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt
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Location:
Job Location City: AUSTIN
Job Location Address: 701 W 51ST ST
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Must be willing to work onsite at an Austin, TX HHS office three (3), or more, days per week
The Product Manager leads the development and evolution of product vision and roadmaps for Medicaid and CHIP IT initiatives, ensuring alignment with agency priorities and enterprise technology standards.
This role provides strategic guidance on system capabilities and policy interpretation, and business analysis working closely with business stakeholders and IT vendors to ensure solutions meet program objectives and contractual requirements.
The Product Manager is accountable for establishing and maintaining program-level roadmaps and overseeing the development and refinement of product backlogs. This includes driving alignment across stakeholders, supporting continuous discovery, and ensuring readiness for quarterly planning activities.
The Product Manager collaborates with product leadership and delivery teams to define solution direction, validate approaches, and ensure that backlog priorities reflect business needs and strategic outcomes. The role reviews complex deliverables, provides actionable feedback, and ensures consistency and quality across products.
The Product Manager also prepares and delivers clear communications and reporting on roadmap progress and priorities to stakeholders, including executive leadership.
This position operates with minimal supervision and requires strong strategic thinking, leadership, and independent judgment.
Essential Job Functions (EJFs):- Collaboratesandfacilitatesdeliveryactivitiesto support the PI objectives,to include coordination withallappropriate HHSCstakeholders. This includes planning, tracking,and supportingall Sprint ceremonies,identification, facilitation, and coordination with impacted stakeholders and other IT teams or vendors,risk/issue identification, Feature Decomposition and Model Storm, engage in prototype conversation and implementation of MVP,andcross-team coordination.[50%]
- Analyzes,documents and reports on the ITcomponentofproduct backlogs with emphasis onqualitydelivery. This includes documentation of risk factors, dependencies,enablersandmonitoring ofthe associated mitigation strategies.
Provides status updates onthedeliveryactivitiesand responds to questions from management.[25%] - Coordinates with Agiledeliveryteamsto provide necessary inputto help refinestoriesas necessary, to provide technical feedback, toinclude necessary impacted stakeholders, to coordinate with other enabler teams, andfacilitaterequests of other IT application or infrastructure teams. [25%]
Skills and Abilities
(KSAs):
- Advanced knowledge of multiple computer-based systems, information technology management, and systems development methodologies including programming languages, systems analysis, and system testing.
- Knowledge of computer hardware and software
- Knowledge of computer operating systems
- Knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of computer systems and of the techniques used in automated systems
- Knowledge of Medicaid and/or CHIP Program and Policy.
- Knowledge of product backlog management
- Skill in Agile Methodology
- Skill in ensuring systems meet business requirements
- Skill in coordinating and solving problems
- Skill in communicating…
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