The successful candidate in this role will be responsible for leading the Product Management Team that will play a key role in BPPM’s ability to consistently deliver successful and meaningful data products by overseeing the product lifecycle management activities and the establishment of best-in-practice product management practices and procedures. The team will be responsible for developing business requirements, setting product strategies and roadmaps, product catalog development, process development and enforcement, vendor engagement and management and more. The Product Management Team Lead will focus on the actual management of DDSA data products. The successful candidate in this role will be responsible for the outreach and coordinate of all SMEs concerning the execution of the State’s approved Medicaid Program. Gathering insight from the SMEs will assist in the unit’s overall mission to create a series of product management processes and procedures meant to provide and support institutional knowledge of the State’s Medicaid data product management and business practices under the approved plan. This includes all external federal guidance and drawing strategic connections between State and federal business practices for Medicaid data product needs. The team lead will work under the direction of BPPM leadership and where appropriate, alongside other OHIP bureaus, to integrate the unit’s responsibilities into DDSA’s transformational agenda. The team will support with BPPM and DDSA leadership to prioritize strategic efforts for addressing both institutional topics that will support and socialize OHIP’s data products, programs (under the State’s approved Medicaid plan) and system integration with federal stakeholders, including but not limited to, the CMS 1115 waiver demonstration, NYHER and own the mobilization of support staff that includes product managers comprised of both Department and contractor staff.