Job Title: Data Product Owner Lead – Healthcare
Location: Remote
Experience: 10+ Years
Industry: Health Insurance / Healthcare
We are looking for a Data Product Owner Lead to lead a team of Data Product Owners and establish a scalable data product management practice within a health insurance environment.
Lead, mentor, and develop Data Product Owners, establishing clear roles, processes, standards, and accountability.
Serve as the business–technology bridge, translating business needs into data products, capabilities, requirements, and priorities.
Partner with health plan leaders across Claims, Membership/Eligibility, Provider/Network, Clinical, Pharmacy, Finance, Operations, and Regulatory Reporting.
Partner with Data Engineering, Architecture, Analytics, Governance, and Platform teams to deliver scalable data solutions.
Drive data product portfolio prioritization, balancing business value, regulatory needs, technical feasibility, dependencies, and capacity.
Establish data product standards around ownership, lifecycle, quality, lineage, documentation, SLAs, adoption, and success metrics.
Define decision rights and accountability across business, product, technology, data governance, and architecture teams.
Champion a product mindset for data, moving from project/request-based delivery toward reusable, governed, consumer-focused data products.
10+ years of experience in health insurance, healthcare, data/analytics, product management, or technology.
Strong health plan/payer domain expertise, particularly Claims, Eligibility, Benefits, Provider/Network, Pharmacy, Clinical, and Finance.
Experience leading Data Product Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, or similar teams.
Strong understanding of modern data platforms, data warehouses/lakes, APIs, analytics, data governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive decisions in complex, matrixed organizations.
Experience building or maturing data/product management practices in evolving organizations.
Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, coaching, and executive presentation skills.
