Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. For People is a team of skilled technologists improving government digital services for disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. The Technical Delivery Manager on the Medicaid team will ensure clarity in project requirements, manage the product roadmap, and facilitate communication between stakeholders and the data science team.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate problem framing exercises, gather assumptions, and explore options for ad-hoc requests, such as valid value changes, data quality enhancements, and one-off analyses
- Own the product roadmap: create it with stakeholder input, keep it current and accurate, and run the roadmap reviews that keep partners aligned
- Translate jargon-heavy policy or technical inputs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and decision memos, then scope and prioritize that work with the data science and data engineering team
- Build enough working fluency in the team's data and build process to shape and scope requirements the data science team can act on
- Maintain a shared understanding of delivery expectations across partner teams, reducing communication and handoff gaps without micromanaging
- Own the risk register in consultation with the team's policy lead, documenting decision points and tradeoffs around complexity, level of effort, and feasibility
- Own reporting readiness and delivery for the monthly reports: make sure the clearance process runs predictably and hold sign-off on each report's delivery
- Prepare and deliver leadership-ready summaries that translate complex work into understandable, defensible narratives
Skills
- A humble and caring attitude aligning with For People's values: passion, fun, curiosity, sustainability, humility, and respect
- 4 to 5 years of experience in delivery, product management, or discovery roles on technical or data-heavy programs
- Experience owning product priorities or a roadmap, including saying no and explaining why
- Familiarity with agile delivery practices and the ability to support planning ceremonies
- Comfort reading and reasoning about data pipeline work in Python and SQL, enough to scope it, prioritize it, and translate it into plain-language summaries
- Government experience. State or federal health agency experience preferred
- Comfort working with high-profile government partners and high-stakes, high-visibility programs
- Comfort switching between the big picture and the details
- Strong synthesis and written communication, for example requirements, decision memos, risk summaries, and leadership briefings
- The ability to operate in ambiguous situations, acting on the question of where the team needs clarity and how to get there
- Awareness of government pace: the ability to over-communicate, anticipate and proactively address roadblocks, document, and follow through
- Comfort working in partnership with a strong leadership team, navigating overlaps and gaps in responsibilities
- Experience with CMS or other federal health agency programs and systems
- Familiarity with Medicaid data or other large-scale health data
- Experience navigating stakeholder approval and formal clearance pathways
Benefits
- Plus generous benefits (e.g., For People pays 100% of Gold-tier employee health insurance premiums) and annual company profit sharing.
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