Product Manager, Back Office

About the Team

The Platform Product team at Datavant is responsible for partnering with the Core Technology teams to build the technical foundations that accelerate our business. We obsess about creating leverage for our business operations and product development process; and achieve this by having a unique combination of: technical expertise domain experience and product-oriented thinking.

About the Role

You will be the product partner of the Enterprise Engineering team partnering with teams in Engineering and IT to drive technology transformations in our back office systems (E.G. CRM ERP HCM). These teams are responsible for preparing Datavant for sustainable growth and scalable business operations by rebuilding our back office suite of software. In this role you you will:

• Set the vision by partnering with engineering & IT leaders to understand our technology strategy
• Be customer centric by obsessing about solving our customer problems. Partner with the engineering team to ship functionality that delight our developers while striking the right balance of impact vs engineering cost and making a measurable impact on the business.
• Be decisive by identifying current and future areas of ambiguity and providing direction along with reasoning and analysis. Others see you as a source of authority reinforced by your exceptional judgment on a range of issues including business technical and organizational and an ability to articulate your perspective effectively.
• Write great product requirements that provide clarity and motivation for what we need to build. You will be noted for your ability to generate workable solutions avoid potholes take good ideas from wherever they come all anchored by a complete understanding of the systems your product touches and the ways in which they are used in practice. As part of the requirement development process you know how to lead discussions and bring others along with you.
• Create impact by working closely with engineering teams across the entire organization. You will add value to this process by removing objections roadblocks and identifying risk.
• Be a leader through example and attitude.
• Operate like an owner with a no job is too small attitude doing what is needed to make your product your team and Datavant a success.

About You

• You have 5 years in a product management business operations or back office support ideally at a rapidly growing multi-line of business organization.
• You have deep knowledge of core back office lifecycles like: Lead to Order Order to Cash Procure to Pay Hire to Retire etc.
• You are a systems thinker. You can identify the key leverage points for creating change and improvement understanding the potential impacts of your decisions across the entire system. You are comfortable working with complexity and can identify and manage feedback loops.
• You are highly organized and have strong project management skills: others are confident in a projects outcome when they know youre owning it.
• You have high bandwidth and high productivity: others wonder where you find time to do all you do. Your secret is that you are quick to understand formulate and respond.
• You are comfortable with and capable of analyzing data whether it be by spreadsheet SQL notebook or abacus you use data as a tool to help drive decisions identify impact and tell the story for stakeholders.
• You write exceptional documents presentations diagrams and mockups. Your documentation leads to discussions about the content not about what is intended.
• You are a great communicator and have the confidence to lead planning meetings with anyone or any group within the company. You have the ability to explain strategies rationales and products in terms that each audience can understand.
• You work hard. You are at your best working at full speed and you love what you do.
• You are motivated by getting stuff done. You are wired to both set the big vision and to make continual steps towards that vision. Neither vision setting nor execution is satisfactory by itself to you - you want both.
• You are a team player. You always put yourself in others positions and understand their motivations needs perspectives and potential points of confusion.
• You are proactive. You define how the product should evolve and bias to action.