Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Astrata is a digital quality company that offers technology solutions specializing in natural language processing (NLP) and advanced analytics that enable Health Plans to move from reactive to proactive quality measurement.

A spin-off of UPMC, Astrata guides customers in planning and implementing digital quality initiatives that increase efficiency, cut costs, and use data effectively to improve population health. For more information, go to www.astrata.co.

About the Role

As the Senior Product Manager, you will be a hands-on member of Astrata’s small product team, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer. You will shape the products our health plan customers rely on to measure and improve the quality of care, from the first customer conversation through specification, testing and release. This is a full-time role for an enterprise product manager who uses the products personally, builds prototypes of their own ideas, and is happy to get in and do the work alongside the team.

This is a remote position. Candidate must be residing in the United States. Pittsburgh area candidates preferred.

The annual salary range for this role is $140,000 - $160,000 plus benefits.

What you’ll do...

• Translate the product vision into a roadmap and drive planning and prioritization for Astrata’s products, working with the CTO, engineering, design and customer-facing teams.
• Gather requirements from many perspectives, including health plan quality teams, providers, IT and our own customer teams, and turn them into clear product direction.
• Write and maintain spec pages, user stories and acceptance criteria that engineers and designers can build from.
• Use AI tools to build prototypes of your product vision, testing ideas quickly and communicating them clearly.
• Plan and run user acceptance testing, and work with engineering to resolve issues before release.
• Use data, customer feedback and market input to measure product performance and decide what to build next.
• Work closely with our product analyst and step in as backup when needed.
• Present our products to customers, partners at sales calls, industry conferences, and contribute to product marketing and market research
• Provide updates in written and spoken format and work with leadership on priorities and improvements.
• Promote and participate in professional self-development to stay current with product practices, healthcare and technology.

What we’re looking for…

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or someone who has acquired core product management skills via practical experience.
• 5+ years of product management experience in enterprise (B2B) software.
• Healthcare experience, with health insurance (payer) domain experience strongly preferred.
• Startup experience and the mindset that goes with it, including comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to wear many hats.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to build a working prototype of a product vision.
• A demonstrated ability to learn quickly, with solid technical understanding and strong analytical skills.
• Excellent writing, communication and listening skills, and the ability to draw out and reconcile input from many stakeholders.
• A team-oriented approach and a readiness to do hands-on work such as writing specs and running UAT.
• High initiative and self-motivation, with the ability to work independently as well as in a small team.

Exceptional Candidates will have...

• Experience with healthcare quality measurement (such as HEDIS) or healthcare data standards such as FHIR.
• Experience presenting at industry conferences.
• Experience in product marketing and market research.

Why you’ll love working here…

• Competitive compensation package including paid time off, parental leave, comprehensive health insurance benefits, retirement benefits, conditional merit increase and bonus and employee stock options
• High employee satisfaction with 90% employee retention
• Opportunity to transform healthcare working with a team of passionate, experienced and dedicated professionals