Technical Delivery Manager, Medicaid

About the role

For People is a team of skilled technologists improving government digital services for disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. We embed directly in government agencies to modernize software, systems, and platforms so that they better serve people.

As the Technical Delivery Manager on the Medicaid team, you bring clarity where it is missing. The team responds to novel analytic questions using Medicaid data. This role involves listening across policy, technical, and government partner contexts, making sense of what is actually being asked, and turning that into clear decisions, shared expectations, and workable next steps. You will build trust by identifying tradeoffs early, clarifying decision rights, and following through.

This role holds delivery responsibility for the Medicaid project while lending product skills: you work with strong project SMEs to document and support what gets built and when, and ensure the team has the clarity, coordination, and tools needed to build it well. The team builds reports for CMS audiences, produced through a data pipeline that draws on national Medicaid data (e.g., T-MSIS). The data science team builds and runs that pipeline in Python and SQL. A policy and program SME provides Medicaid expertise and supports stakeholder relationships.

You will not write code or be expected to understand dense policy documents, but you will work close enough to the team to scope work, set priorities, ask the right questions, and represent the work well to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate problem framing exercises, gather assumptions, and explore options for ad-hoc requests, such as valid value changes, data quality enhancements, and one-off analyses
• Own the product roadmap: create it with stakeholder input, keep it current and accurate, and run the roadmap reviews that keep partners aligned
• Translate jargon-heavy policy or technical inputs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and decision memos, then scope and prioritize that work with the data science and data engineering team
• Build enough working fluency in the team's data and build process to shape and scope requirements the data science team can act on
• Maintain a shared understanding of delivery expectations across partner teams, reducing communication and handoff gaps without micromanaging
• Own the risk register in consultation with the team's policy lead, documenting decision points and tradeoffs around complexity, level of effort, and feasibility
• Own reporting readiness and delivery for the monthly reports: make sure the clearance process runs predictably and hold sign-off on each report's delivery
• Prepare and deliver leadership-ready summaries that translate complex work into understandable, defensible narratives

Requirements

• A humble and caring attitude aligning with For People's values: passion, fun, curiosity, sustainability, humility, and respect
• 4 to 5 years of experience in delivery, product management, or discovery roles on technical or data-heavy programs
• Experience owning product priorities or a roadmap, including saying no and explaining why
• Familiarity with agile delivery practices and the ability to support planning ceremonies
• Comfort reading and reasoning about data pipeline work in Python and SQL, enough to scope it, prioritize it, and translate it into plain-language summaries
• Government experience. State or federal health agency experience preferred
• Comfort working with high-profile government partners and high-stakes, high-visibility programs
• Comfort switching between the big picture and the details
• Strong synthesis and written communication, for example requirements, decision memos, risk summaries, and leadership briefings
• The ability to operate in ambiguous situations, acting on the question of where the team needs clarity and how to get there
• Awareness of government pace: the ability to over-communicate, anticipate and proactively address roadblocks, document, and follow through
• Comfort working in partnership with a strong leadership team, navigating overlaps and gaps in responsibilities
• Must be a United States citizen and able to pass a public trust background check
• Must perform all work physically within the United States at all times

Nice to have

• Experience with CMS or other federal health agency programs and systems
• Familiarity with Medicaid data or other large-scale health data
• Experience navigating stakeholder approval and formal clearance pathways

Benefits

• For People pays 100% of Gold-tier employee health insurance premiums
• Annual company profit sharing

Pay

Published base salary range is between $100,000 and $130,000 annually.

Schedule

• 100% remote, with no return-to-office requirement
• Flexible work-life balance, including the ability to run errands or take mid-day breaks as needed
• Occasional paid travel may be required for on-site collaboration with government partners

Culture

For People is a team of humans. We place a significant amount of emphasis on positive work-life balance, setting healthy expectations, and making sure our loved ones are taken care of first. Our entire team is remote across the United States, from the west coast to the east coast.