Lead, Technical Product Management, Health Systems

The Technical Product Management (TPM) Lead is a strategic and execution-focused role that is responsible for managing several digital products that combine data, artificial intelligence, and best-in-class UX. This individual works with engineering, design, and business teams, translating product vision into actionable technical requirements. They lead the strategy of their product, define and prioritize features, and ensure the product's alignment with architectural standards and business goals.

The role demands deep technical acumen, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority. Responsibilities include managing the product roadmap, maintaining a current and complete understanding of a health systems customer profile and set of needs, refining technology pain points with engineering to produce valuable solutions, guiding and interpreting market and user research, and overseeing product performance through data-driven insights.

What You'll Do:

Product Ownership & Execution

• Designs, develops and manages activities for specific digital products (may include data products, reporting products, and commercial products) from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life.
• Owns the identification and management of specific features or components within a digital product.
• Translate business requirements into product specifications and enable engineering teams for technical stories.
• Prioritize backlog items in collaboration with engineering and design.
• Ensures delivery excellence by aligning product execution with agile best practices, sprint goals, and release timelines, while proactively identifying and mitigating risks.

Technical Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure feasibility, scalability, and alignment with architectural standards.
• Participate in sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives to promote on-time delivery.
• Understand APIs, data models, and system integrations to guide development.
• Work with engineering and testing teams to develop and apply A/B testing methodologies to validate best-in-class feature and functionality enhancement.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Builds strong, trust-based relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including engineering, design, business units, customer success, and executive leadership, to ensure alignment on product goals and priorities.
• Interface with internal stakeholders (e.g., operations, sales, support) to gather feedback and validate technical solutions.
• Regularly uses immediate customer feedback loops, incorporating customer & user feedback into the prioritization of current product feature expansion, and new product development.
• Support customer discovery and usability testing to inform product decisions.

Data-Driven Decision Making

• Use real-time analytics tools to monitor product performance, identify issues, and propose improvements.
• Demonstrate measurable improvements in product reliability, scalability, and performance, as reflected in KPIs such as uptime, latency, error rates, and system throughput.

Documentation & Communication

• Create and maintain product documentation, including technical specs, release notes, and user guides.
• Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies to cross-functional teams.
• Develop and socialize product roadmaps, decision logs, and technical rationale to ensure transparency and alignment across teams.

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience. Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications.
• 10+ years in progressively advancing technical product management roles.
• 7+ years proven experience working with and influencing highly matrixed teams.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrated understanding of product lifecycles, Ideal Customer Profiles (ICP), lean product canvas, the high level AI landscape, agile methodologies, and digital transformation.
• Base understanding of modern digital architectures, APIs, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, and software development practices.
• Healthcare educational background or hands-on experience in health care industry and/or regulated environments is a plus., Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis without the need for employer support or sponsorship now or in the future. This includes having the legal right to work in the United States without the need for McKesson support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment authorization (e.g., H1B, O1, E3, H1B1, TN, F1 OPT, F1 STEM OPT, F1 CPT, etc.) now or in the future.

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$163,100 - $271,800

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