Hiring: Principal Technical Product Manager, Platform Company: Vatica Health Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 05:51:06 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : Product Management, Systems Design About the job Experience: •10+ years in product management, with significant experience owning platform-level or infrastructure-adjacent products (not just feature teams) Required Skills: •Own the platform strategy and roadmap in support of the broader business, from architecture-level decisions down to individual feature specs •Lead the transition strategy for moving existing customers and workflows forward as the platform evolves, including sequencing, risk mitigation, and rollback planning •Coordinate delivery across multiple engineering teams — teams you work with day to day and dependent teams outside your scope — resolving conflicting priorities and keeping cross-team dependencies visible and on schedule •Get into the details: review data contracts, evaluate technical tradeoffs with engineering leads, and write or edit specs yourself when needed rather than delegating every decision •Make and document product decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving conditions, with clear rationale and named owners for anything left open •Work directly with engineers and end users (clinical and administrative staff) to validate that designs solve the actual problem, not just the stated requirement •Manage scope and expectations with stakeholders at every level, from engineers to executive sponsors •Partner with globally distributed engineering teams, including regular early-morning collaboration to overlap with offshore working hours Qualifications: •Direct experience leading a major platform build and/or migration — you've done this before and know where the risk hides •A track record of coordinating delivery across multiple engineering teams, including teams you don't formally manage •Comfort operating in ambiguity — you can move a decision forward without waiting for a complete spec •A "doer" mindset: willing to work in the details (data models, technical tradeoffs, edge cases), not just set direction from above •Strong written and verbal communication — able to explain technical tradeoffs to executives and translate business needs to engineers •Operational familiarity with modular/service-oriented architectures and data contract-based system design Compensation: •$206,000 - $219,000 / year •Bonus Potential (based on role and is discretionary) - if you go above and beyond, you should be rewarded Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!