Job Summary

The Product Manager will serve as a strategic and industry liaison responsible for guiding the development, delivery, and lifecycle management of products and services within the Wisconsin Health Data Hub (WHDH). WHDH is a federally funded initiative developing a secure, cloud-native data platform designed to support biomedical research, real-world data analytics, and AI-driven discovery.

This role will translate stakeholder needs into clear product strategies, roadmaps, and prioritized requirements that align technical delivery with organizational goals. The Product Manager will work closely with team members and external partners to ensure WHDH products are user-centered, scalable, and impactful.

The position emphasizes execution, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement to ensure WHDH products deliver measurable value to researchers, healthcare partners, and industry collaborators.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap Management

• Define product vision, strategy, and roadmap for WHDH platform capabilities, data products, and digital services.
• Translate institutional priorities, stakeholder requirements, and market opportunities into actionable product plans.
• Identify new product opportunities that expand WHDH's value proposition to research, healthcare, and industry partners.
• Maintain and communicate product priorities, timelines, dependencies, and success metrics.

Product Delivery & Execution

• Develop and manage product backlogs, requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for technical teams.
• Partner with other team members to deliver product features on schedule and within scope.
• Coordinate product launches, release planning, change readiness, and user adoption activities.
• Balance competing priorities across technical debt, new features, compliance needs, and stakeholder requests.

Stakeholder & Customer Engagement

• Gather requirements through interviews, workshops, surveys, and ongoing engagement with stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Present product updates, roadmap decisions, and progress reports to leadership, sponsors, and advisory groups.
• Build strong relationships with external collaborators to identify partnership and commercialization opportunities.

Product Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Define KPIs and monitor adoption, satisfaction, operational performance, and business impact of WHDH products.
• Use analytics and user feedback to improve usability, workflows, and feature prioritization.
• Conduct competitive and market analysis to inform product direction and positioning.
• Drive continuous improvement processes that enhance speed, quality, and customer value delivery.