Product Manager

In this remote position, we are seeking a Product Manager who thrives in a fast-moving environment and enjoys solving complex data, interoperability, and workflow challenges in healthcare. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, customers, and healthcare regulation and is responsible for defining, building, and delivering products that make healthcare data available where it is needed—accurately, securely, and in real time.

This is a highly cross-functional and customer-facing role. You will work closely with Engineering, Customer Success, Implementation, company leadership, and customers to translate complex healthcare problems into scalable product solutions.

Opala is a healthcare data and interoperability company that helps health plans and providers access, exchange, and use healthcare data in real time. Our platform, Opala Health Synq™, integrates clinical, claims, and administrative data to power interoperability, analytics, and operational workflows across the healthcare ecosystem.

We help organizations meet evolving regulatory requirements, including CMS interoperability rules, while also unlocking the data foundation required for population health, value-based care, and AI-driven healthcare innovation.

• 3–7 years of product management experience, preferably in healthcare or health technology
• Experience working with technical products such as APIs, data platforms, SaaS products, or complex enterprise software
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex customer, business, and technical problems into clear product requirements and solutions
• Experience partnering closely with software engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working directly with customers and cross-functional stakeholders
• Ability to prioritize competing needs and make sound decisions with incomplete information
• Comfortable taking ownership and operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment

• Experience with healthcare data, including claims, clinical, eligibility, ADT, provider, or member data
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards and technologies such as HL7, FHIR, CDA, and APIs
• Experience with CMS interoperability requirements and related healthcare regulations
• Familiarity with Da Vinci Implementation Guides or other industry interoperability initiatives
• Experience with data platforms, analytics, population health, or AI-enabled products
• Experience working in a startup, growth-stage company, or similarly dynamic environment

• Own and drive roadmap priorities for assigned areas of Opala’s interoperability and data platform
• Translate company strategy, regulatory requirements, market opportunities, and customer needs into clear product priorities
• Contribute to and help shape Opala’s broader product vision for interoperability, longitudinal health data, and real-time data exchange
• Evaluate competing opportunities and make thoughtful tradeoffs based on customer value, strategic alignment, scalability, effort, and business impact

• Translate complex problems into clear product requirements, user stories, workflows, and acceptance criteria
• Partner closely with Engineering throughout discovery, design, development, and release
• Own and prioritize the product backlog for assigned product areas
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, product demos, and release planning
• Make timely product decisions and resolve ambiguity as questions arise during development
• Ensure products are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with relevant…