Senior Product Manager Center for Population Health Data Science

The Center for Population Health Data Science (CPHDS) launched in October of 2023 aims to catalyze critical data modernization work and enable the agency to make progress toward linking public health healthcare and social service for timely and effective public action. We are working towards making these data more accessible timely equitable meaningfully usable protected and actively used. CPHDS aims to strengthen agency wide data capabilities by empowering our workforce enhancing intra and interagency data sharing and using modern technology to yield trusted and integrated data and insights. A realtime and comprehensive view of city needs is needed to enhance public health actions and improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

DOHMH is seeking a Senior Product Manager to spearhead the development of data platform and products within our Integrated Public Health Data Infrastructure portfolio. We are a collaborative team dedicated to advancing public health through new data infrastructure and accessible information. As part of our mission we are building an enterprise data platform and supporting both internal and external data products to enhance our public health initiatives.

Position Summary:
As the Senior Product Manager for the Data Infrastructure Portfolio you will lead the strategic vision development and scaling of our enterprise data platform while also steering the roadmap for interconnected internal and external data products. Your role will be critical in building data infrastructure facilitating crossfunctional collaboration and ensuring compliance with health data standards ultimately driving meaningful outcomes for public health.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Developing infrastructure strategy and roadmap
Define and communicate a cohesive strategy for the data platform and its role in supporting internal and external data products and data exchange aligned with organizational goals and broader public health objectives.
Develop a product roadmap that balances shortterm needs and longterm vision ensuring the platform and products evolve to meet user requirements and compliance mandates.
Drive stakeholder alignment around the data platforms role in enabling effective interconnected data products that serve both internal and external audiences.
Implement data for equity and data quality features in the platform to ensure a uniform equity lens across future data products.

Collaborating with partners and stakeholders
Collaborate extensively with internal teams (e.g. data engineers analysts epidemiologists legal compliance) to understand requirements and dependencies across data platform and product development.
Engage with regulatory and compliance teams and data governance team to ensure all products adhere to healthrelated data regulations including privacy and security requirements.
Facilitate regular touchpoints with endusers capturing feedback and requirements to refine and prioritize product features across the platform and data products.

Managing development
Oversee the endtoend development lifecycle for the data platform from feature prioritization and sprint planning to testing and release management.
Coordinate with technical teams to ensure that internal and external data products are built on a scalable and secure foundation fully integrated with the data platform.
Maintain comprehensive documentation for product features technical guidelines and compliance measures ensuring transparency and continuity in product development.
Define track and communicate relevant KPIs for the product to measure performance and contribution to business goals and strategy.

Managing user experience and adoption
Lead user experience initiatives working with designers and developers to create intuitive accessible and responsive data platform and products tailored to internal and external audiences.
Develop adoption and engagement strategies including user training support resources and feedback mechanisms to ensure products deliver value and foster collaboration across the organization.
Collect and analyze user feedback on both internal and external products integrating insights into iterative development cycles to continuously improve product effectiveness and user satisfaction.

Ensuring data compliance and risk management
Implement and monitor data compliance practices across the data platform and products ensuring adherence to health data regulations and internal policies.
Develop and communicate risk management strategies with a focus on secure data access storage and sharing across internal and external products proactively mitigating potential compliance risks.
Stay current on regulatory updates in health data management translating these requirements into actionable compliance measures for the data platform and associated products.

Preferred Skills:
5 years of product management or related experience.
Masters degree in public health data science health informatics computer science or a related field.
Understanding of public health and population health data interoperability standards and policies and applicable regulations.
Understanding of data systems data governance data analytics
Ability to lead crossfunctional teams and work collaboratively across diverse and matrixed stakeholders.
Ability to surface prioritize and balance multiple stakeholder priorities.
Strong project management skills to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
Demonstrated success in defining and building data and technology products.
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills including experience analyzing and leveraging data to inform decision making.
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information effectively to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
Ability to adapt and respond to changes due to emerging public health needs and priorities.
Background in public health is preferred
Technical proficiency: R Python SQL HTML JavaScript DataWrapper GitHub SAS bash
Preferred experience: Interpreting analyzing and drawing conclusions from epidemiological and other public health or publicly sourced data

Why you should work for us:

Loan Forgiveness: As a prospective employee of the City of New York you may be eligible for federal/state loan forgiveness and repayment assistance programs that lessen your payments or even fully forgive your full balance. For more information please visit the U.S. Department of Educations website ()
Benefits: City employees are entitled to unmatched benefits such as:
oa premiumfree health insurance plan that saves employees over $10K annually per a 2024 assessment.
oadditional health fitness and financial benefits may be available based on the positions associated union/benefit fund.
oa public sector defined benefit pension plan with steady monthly payments in retirement.
oa taxdeferred savings program and
oa robust Worksite Wellness Program that offers resources and opportunities to keep you healthy while serving New Yorkers.
Work From Home Policy: Depending on your position you may be able to work up to two days during the week from home.
Job Security you could enjoy more job security compared to private sector employment and be able to contribute to making NYC a healthy place to live and work.

Established in 1805 the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the U.S. dedicated to protecting and improving the health of NYC. Our mission is to safeguard the health of every resident and cultivate a city where everyone regardless of age background or location can achieve their optimal health. We provide a wide array of programs and services focused on food and nutrition antitobacco support chronic disease prevention HIV/AIDS treatment family and child health environmental health mental health and social justice initiatives. As the primary population health strategist and policy authority for NYC with a rich history of public health initiatives and scientific advancements from addressing the 1822 yellow fever outbreak to the COVID19 pandemic we serve as a global leader in public health innovation and expertise.

Come join us and help to continue our efforts in making a difference in the lives of all New Yorkers!

The NYC Health Department is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation to all individuals. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process contact SyeEun Ahn Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity at or.

CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST 21744

Qualifications :

1. For Assignment Level I (only physical biological and environmental sciences and public health) A masters degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and one year of fulltime experience in a responsible supervisory administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A masters degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and three years of responsible fulltime research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least a masters degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in 2 above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in 1 and 2 above.

NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime