About the position
Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones. Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business. Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision and roadmap for a suite of healthcare solutions, with a strong focus on AI and data science-powered features.
- Serve as the primary liaison between external customers, users, and internal teams—including engineering and data science—to define and document high-impact feature requirements.
- Collaborate closely with data science teams to translate analytical insights and model outputs into meaningful product functionality, ensuring feasibility, accuracy, and clinical relevance.
- Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation through delivery, including backlog creation, prioritization, and release planning.
- Lead the prioritization process across engineering, data science, operations, and client needs, balancing technical complexity with business value.
- Partner with engineering to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of product features; contribute to QA processes where needed.
- Define and monitor KPIs for product performance and user impact, leveraging insights to inform future development.
- Own bug triage and resolution workflows in collaboration with technical leads.
- Create and maintain clear, comprehensive documentation for internal teams and external clients.
- Drive strategic alignment across functions and champion a proactive, data-informed product culture.
- Operate with autonomy and authority, while fostering a collaborative, mission-driven environment.
- Support future team growth by identifying talent needs, mentoring junior PMs, and contributing to team-building efforts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Healthcare, or a related field; advanced degree (MBA, MPH, MS) preferred.
- 7+ years of product management or program leadership experience in a software development environment, with 3+ years working directly with data science or machine learning teams.
- Demonstrated success delivering data science-enabled product features, especially in regulated or complex industries such as healthcare.
- Experience owning a roadmap and vision for AI- or analytics-driven products, ideally in a B2B or enterprise healthcare context.
- Strong background in agile product development and managing cross-functional engineering teams.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and strategic planning skills.
- Proven ability to synthesize complex technical concepts into actionable business requirements.
- Proficiency in product and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Trello).
- Technical fluency and familiarity with backend APIs, and modern web frameworks (e.g., Java, Scala, React.js, JavaScript).
- Passion for improving healthcare delivery through intelligent, AI-driven solutions.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance benefits
- Bonus component dependent on pre-defined performance factors
