Associate Product Manager
HCA Healthcare · Nashville, TN · 5 days ago
On-siteHealthcareFull-time
About the role
As Associate Product Manager within ITG Accelerated Technologies, you will work cross-functionally across enterprise teams to guide products from ideation to launch and beyond. You will work with analysts, designers, engineers, software developers, and various business partners to deliver high-value products to support the care and improvement of human life. Time will be spent understanding customer problems, designing solutions, using data to inform decisions, and managing successful solution delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead vision, strategy, & agile planning (e.g., monthly release, quarterly planning).
- Define & track metrics / key performance indicators (KPIs) to continuously measure value of IT investment in solutions built on the platform (e.g., north star, driver, supporting, & diagnostic metrics).
- Establish annual and/or quarterly objectives and key results (OKRs) to define measurable goals and outcome tracking, making use of established metrics / KPIs in goal setting process.
- Manage the product lifecycle from discovery through delivery & ongoing support, ensuring alignment with business goals and clarity across key stakeholders / the product squad.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams — including analysts, engineers, and other product teams dependent on platform, & business stakeholders — to design and deliver high-value solutions.
- Follow an incremental delivery approach (e.g., proof of concept, minimum valuable product), making and testing hypotheses along the way, to maximize outcomes over output.
- Facilitate agile scrum processes & contribute to ceremonies across dependent product teams.
- Drive user-centered design practices (e.g., UX research, design sprint, story mapping, prototyping).
- Prioritize features & enhancements based on data-driven insights and stakeholder input, focusing on highest value items and balancing short-term needs with long-term strategic roadmap.
- Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, other product teams, & users.
- Monitor market / industry trends in healthcare and technology (e.g., artificial intelligence, data science), to inform product strategy & innovation.
- Monitor roadmaps of key business & technical/enabling teams to ensure consideration within the product strategy.
- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, & responsible AI policies, standards, and procedures as applicable throughout the product lifecycle.
- Proactively communicate risks, blockers, & roadmap status updates to stakeholders, & recommend risk mitigation strategies as needed.
- Maintain visibility of current product priorities as well as future plans (roadmaps, backlogs).
- Measure & communicate value delivery / KPI / OKR achievement to key stakeholders.
- Advocate for scalable, secure, & efficient solutions that reduce insurance denials & improve patient care coordination.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” philosophy and “Mission and Value Statement.”
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 3 or more years of experience in product management, business analysis, product analysis, engineering, architecture, project management, consulting, or other relevant field required.
- 1 – 2 years people management or product team leadership preferred.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini Code Assist, ChatGPT, or similar technologies to improve developer productivity and accelerate software delivery.
- Preferred: Knowledge of modern software development practices, including CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), APIs, microservices, and containerization technologies such as Kubernetes.
- Preferred: Understanding of enterprise AI governance and security considerations, including responsible AI adoption, data protection, and secure integration of AI tools into development environments.
Qualifications
Licenses, Certifications, & Training
- Agile Certification Preferred
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors
- Service and Quality Excellence: Ability to demonstrate an uncompromising commitment to delivering exceptional care to create an unmatched value proposition for our patients. (Required)
- Honor our Mission and Values: Ability to build trust and act with authenticity to cultivate a culture of integrity, inclusion, and mutual respect. (Required)
- Effective Decision Making: Ability to make timely, informed decisions that are in the best interest of our patients, employees, providers, community and HCA. (Required)
- Attain and Leverage Strategic Relationships: Ability to develop and strengthen collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to advance the care of our patients and the growth of HCA. (Required)
- Lead and Develop Others: Ability to lead others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives; provide meaningful coaching and mentoring to increase the capabilities of individuals and teams and drive employee engagement. (Required)
- Communicate with Impact: Ability to deliver information in a clear, concise, and compelling manner to effectively engage others and achieve desired results. (Required)
- Achieve Success through Change: Ability to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation, remove barriers and resistance, and enable desired behaviors. (Required)
- Drive Execution and Financial Results: Ability to commit to the success and financial wellbeing of HCA by challenging others to excel and hold themselves and others accountable for achieving results. (Required)
Benefits
HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.