Product Specialist
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Job Location:
Harrisburg, PA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Title: DHS -Exception (Product Specialist PS6) (790963)
Location: This is a Teleworking role. Successful candidate must be able to travel to office as needed ( local to PA required ) 2525 North Seventh Street Harrisburg PA 17110
Duration: 12 Months Contract with possibility to extension
Job Description:
OBJECTIVE OF ENGAGEMENT:
Senior Product Manager to provide strategic product management services to the Client Delivery Center for the HR1 initiative. This position collaborates with stakeholders to better understand and plan a product roadmap and strategy and to execute changes needed to implement HR1 requirements. This position manages digital products connecting millions of Pennsylvanians to health and human services and benefits. This person will join the team at the time of major transformation of technology design and experience management.
This role will drive refine and execute a strategic product roadmap for HHS to meet the HR1 mandates in partnership with stakeholders across the Commonwealth at Client and externally. Mapping out the vision for the product identifying key milestones and aligning them with program goals while improving business and system operations.
This role will facilitate the development of business/functional/systems requirements and process models through interviews document analysis workshops and other tools during project planning activities and through the change management process.
Ensures alignment and defines success measures for projects/technical solutions in relation to the current program goals and strategies.
Leads cross functional project teams to research and define problems assess potential opportunities and impacts align on success measures and execute implementation plans for new projects. Coordinating efforts and driving alignment towards common objectives across various teams.
Serves as a liaison between business and IT groups including vendors. Collaborating with design technology data and other internal and external teams to drive the product development lifecycle.
Keep abreast of and translate policy and administration goals into digital product solutions that create meaningful impact for PA residents and administering social service agencies
Develops or revises and implements policies procedures and standards to improve quality efficiency and cost savings.
Synthesizes research findings and insights into actionable recommendations and delivers them in high quality deliverables for team and executive level audiences.
Utilize user research analytics and other methods to drive product decisions and set priorities.
Required Skills:
At least 5 years of experience in technical or strategic product management
Experience communicating with non-technical audiences and capacity building with staff new to agile and user centered design
Experience leading or managing complex technical products involving legacy systems and complex data structure
Experience leading cross-functional teams in government contexts
Excellent oral written and visual communication skills
Bias toward action and delivery
Strong facilitation and people management skills
Experience managing vendor teams and working with multiple vendors Experience delivering technology in Health and Human Services or Benefits Delivery on Federally funded programs including SNAP Medicaid TANF or Unemployment Insurance (or similar programs)
5 years of experience in technical or strategic product management
Required
5
Years
Experience delivering technology for HHS or Federally funded programs including SNAP Medicaid TANF or Unemployment Insurance (or similar programs).
Required
Experience leading or managing complex technical products involving legacy systems and complex data structure
Required
Experience leading cross-functional teams in government contexts
Required
Experience communicating with non-technical audiences and capacity building with staff new to agile and user centered design
Required
Excellent oral written and visual communication skills
Required
Strong facilitation and people management skills
Required
Experience managing vendor teams and working with multiple vendors
Required
Key Skills
- Sales Experience
- Marketing
- Customer Service
- Communication skills
- Military Experience
- Retail Sales
- Product Demos
- Customer Support
- Product Management
- Product Development
- Unity
- Microscopy
