Technical Product Manager

At Virtual Radiologic (vRad) you make a difference.  Your skills, energy, and passion for results drive us to achieve strategic growth objectives and deliver quality patient care across the United States.

Virtual Radiologic is a national radiology practice and leader in the development of radiologist workflow technology. The dedication of vRad team members enables us to sustain our unique market-leading position and to provide the best quality and service to our customers and the patients we jointly serve.  vRad team members exhibit energy and a passion for service excellence in our casually professional and collaborative work environment. We continually reward team members who embrace our fast-paced culture and who go the extra mile for our customers with internal recognition programs.

At vRad you make a difference.

Location: Local Twin Cities candidates preferred.

Summary:

The Technical Product Manager is a radiology workflow and technology expert. This person defines, prioritizes, and plans updates to the vRad radiology software platform, balancing input from internal and external users, Radiology Partners’ radiology practice partners, vRad’s Product Solutions department, and IT Executive Steering Committee. The Technical Product Manager works closely with Software Engineering to rapidly advance vRad’s technology platform to meet vRad’s ever evolving business, financial and clinical objectives.

This position requires occasional business travel, with trips lasting approximately 1-3 days in duration. The success of this position will be driven by his/her consultative approach as he/she cultivates relationships, manages expectations and articulates comprehensive solutions that expand and improve vRad’s suite of software applications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Guide the evolution of vRad’s suite of software applications
• Act as product owner on multiple agile software development teams
  • Maintain and prioritize the product backlog
  • Cultivate and communicate product vision
  • Represent customers and stakeholders
  • Communicate status externally
  • Works with team to eliminate barriers
• Provide recommendations regarding technology investments to the IT Executive Steering Committee
• Meet with customers to identify customer needs
• Review, analyze, and evaluate business and user needs and translate to software systems specifications
• Maintain current knowledge of similar software products
• Work collaboratively with team members to support a rapidly growing information technology intensive business
• Assist in estimating, planning, and scheduling software development tasks
• Strong technical and problem solving skills
• Effectively communicate with all levels of the company as well as external customers
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation as needed to support radiologists and other systems support issues

Qualifications/Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or 5+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of experience in healthcare or medical industry
• Demonstrated experience writing specifications and documentation for the dissemination of work within a software development organization
• Demonstrated technical knowledge in RIS/PACS
• Demonstrated experience writing specifications and documentation for the dissemination of work within a development organization
• Demonstrated success in working with customers, vendors, and cross-functional teams
• Strong process orientation, problem solving and troubleshooting skills and a firm commitment to quality
• Ability to travel up to 15%
• Results oriented, with a demonstrated ability to balance multiple tasks and priorities
• Demonstrated strong work ethic and initiative in accomplishing objectives of the position
• Creative, positive and energetic; ability to organize and prioritize multiple projects and meet deadlines
• Excellent customer service skills, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter and team player; ability to work well in matrix organization

Job Classification:

Sedentary– Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. A sedentary job involves sitting most of the time.

The salary for this position is $110,000-$125,000. The range for this role represents the numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to, education, skills, work experience, certifications, etc. As such, pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range. In addition to base salary, vRad offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs including  medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more.