Head of Product - Colorado Eligibility and Enrollment Systems; CoBEES

This position is open to residents and non-residents of Colorado. If appointed to a position,

applicants from outside of Colorado will be required to relocate to Colorado before their start date.

Please Note:

This posting will be open until filled!!!

Minimum 2 days In Office and Maximum 3 days Remote Work

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These working arrangements are subject to change.

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

The Colorado Benefits Eligibility and Enrollment Systems (CoBEES) is a cross-agency portfolio of information technology systems, subsystems, applications, interfaces, training, and communications managed and maintained by the State of Colorado to deliver access to public assistance and medical coverage programs for Coloradans. The CoBEES portfolio includes the Colorado Benefits Management System (CBMS), Program Eligibility and Application Kit (PEAK), PEAK Pro, Electronic Document Management System (EDMS), MyColorado Benefits, and the Joint Agency Interoperability (JAI) program.

CoBEES supports multiple state departments-operating through a collaborative governance and product operating model between the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) and the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF)-to administer critical state benefits such as Medicaid, Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+), SNAP, WIC, and TANF. The principal users of these systems include county benefit eligibility technicians, state program administrators, and program participants across Colorado.

The Head of Product (HOP) serves as the executive product and portfolio leader for the CoBEES portfolio, establishing and executing the technology and product vision for the systems that enable county workers to administer public benefits to Coloradans. Leading a joint CDHS-HCPF-CDEC-OIT product management organization, the HOP oversees day-to-day product ownership of systems including CBMS, PEAK, and Joint Agency Interoperability (JAI).

This position works in close partnership with CDHS’s Business, Innovation, Technology, Security Division (BITS), HCPF’s Health Information Office (HIO), the Governor’s Office of Information Technology (OIT), and contracted vendor partners to ensure CoBEES technologies support end users while advancing product management maturity and best practices across the portfolio. This position provides direct supervisory oversight of the CBMS, PEAK, and JAI product teams and serves as a collaborative executive partner with senior leaders across both departments, including HCPF’s Medicaid Chief Operations Officer and Deputy Director of the Health Information Office, as well as CDHS’s Office Director for Economic Security and Office Director of Infrastructure, to ensure coordinated governance and strategic direction of CoBEES.

The HOP serves as the day-to-day executive accountable for the CoBEES portfolio. Housed within CDHS, the position reports directly to the CDHS Deputy Executive Director of Community Partnerships (who serves as the appointing authority) and a dotted line reporting relationship with the Health Information Office (HIO) Deputy Director  HOP maintains joint accountability to the Executive Directors of both CDHS and HCPF.

Strategic governance for the portfolio is provided in collaboration with executive leadership and cross-departmental governance…