Product Owner
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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.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Role Overview
As a Product Owner at Evolent Health, you will contribute to the strategy, design, and execution of solutions that enable seamless new client implementations and partner integrations across our healthcare technology platform. You will play a critical role in ensuring successful client go-lives by aligning product capabilities, data readiness, and delivery execution with business and client needs.
This role is ideal for a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, brings an innovative mindset, and actively challenges the status quo to improve how we deliver scalable, high-quality provider data solutions. You will lead agile teams, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive outcomes from implementation planning through production launch and stabilization.
Key Responsibilities
Product Leadership & Strategy
- Serve as the Product Owner supporting the Partner Delivery provider data scrum team, driving scalable, configurable provider data pipeline solutions.
- Contribute to product vision, strategy, and roadmap in partnership with Product Managers and executive stakeholders.
- Proactively identify opportunities to reimagine processes and introduce innovative solutions that improve scalability, flexibility, and client onboarding speed.
- Translate client implementation requirements into user stories, data mapping requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Leverage modern tools—including LLMs and AI-assisted analysis—to accelerate requirements gathering, enhance product discovery, and improve solution design.
- Champion a delivery model aligned to implementation milestones, go-live readiness, and client commitments—identify risks and gaps proactively, escalating and addressing them with guidance from leadership
Technical Expertise & Delivery
- Develop subject matter expertise in provider data requirements, UM applications, partner integrations, and healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR, EDI).
- Own and maintain the product backlog, including prioritization, grooming, and sprint planning activities.
- Support engineering with file transfer processes, data analysis, mapping requirements, and provider network design.
- Work with cross-functional partners to bring clarity to ambiguous or evolving requirements, minimizing downstream rework.
- Utilize AI-assisted tools to synthesize requirements, identify gaps, and improve documentation quality and speed.
- Oversee technical specifications, release notes, and training materials.
- Own user acceptance testing to ensure alignment with implementation requirements and stakeholder expectations.
- Participate in production support, including issue reproduction, gap analysis, and resolution.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Build strong cross-functional relationships across product, data operations, and engineering teams.
- Surface risks early, communicate trade-offs clearly, and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Synthesize complex technical concepts into executive-level insights and support decision-making in steering committees.
- Influence outcomes and drive alignment across stakeholders, even in complex or competing-priority environments.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Continuous Improvement & Scalability
- Drive standardization and optimization of provider data onboarding to reduce cycle time and improve quality.
- Challenge existing processes and identify opportunities to modernize tools, workflows, and architecture.
- Stay current with emerging technologies, including AI/LLM capabilities, to inform product strategy and delivery practices.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
- Experience in healthcare technology, with knowledge of Provider Data Management, Implementations, Utilization Management, or Prior Authorization.
- Experience working with agile teams to deliver data integration products.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a self-starter, proactively identifying problems and driving solutions with minimal oversight.
- Experience or interest in using AI/LLM tools to support requirements gathering, product discovery, or solution design.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Visio).
Preferred Experience & Qualifications
- Advanced degree in a technical or related field.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, or similar.
- Experience writing product documentation (release notes, user guides).
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban).
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent.
What Sets Successful Candidates Apart
- Eagerness to learn and grow in a complex, fast-paced environment
- Innovative thinker who challenges assumptions and brings new ideas to solve complex problems
- Comfortable pushing boundaries to improve processes, tooling, and outcomes
- Thrives in ambiguity and brings structure to evolving requirements
- Bias for action with strong ownership and accountability
- Strategic yet execution-focused, connecting long-term vision with near-term delivery
- Curious and adaptive in applying emerging technologies (including AI/LLMs) to improve product outcomes
To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.
Technical Requirements:
We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router.
Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact recruitingteam@evolent.com for further assistance.
The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $90,000 - 120,000. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.Automatically Apply to the Best Remote Jobs
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