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.

Webelieve 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.

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

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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Assessments 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…