Senior Technical Program Manager

We Breathe Life Into Data

At Komodo Health, our mission is to reduce the global burden of disease. And we believe that smarter use of data is essential to this mission. That’s why we built the Healthcare Map — the industry’s largest, most complete, precise view of the U.S. healthcare system — by combining de-identified, real-world patient data with innovative algorithms and decades of clinical experience. The Healthcare Map serves as our foundation for a powerful suite of software applications, helping us answer healthcare’s most complex questions for our partners. Across the healthcare ecosystem, we’re helping our clients unlock critical insights to track detailed patient behaviors and treatment patterns, identify gaps in care, address unmet patient needs, and reduce the global burden of disease. 

As we pursue these goals, it remains essential to us that we stay grounded in our values: be awesome, seek growth, deliver “wow,” and enjoy the ride. At Komodo, you will be joining a team of ambitious, supportive Dragons with diverse backgrounds but a shared passion to deliver on our mission to reduce the burden of disease — and enjoy the journey along the way.

The Opportunity at Komodo Health

The Engineering process of transforming healthcare data into products and services to solve real world problems requires cross-functional collaboration and coordination involving multiple teams and stakeholders. The Senior Technical Program Manager is accountable for establishing and executing on end to end programs with Engineering and Product Org. The mission of the Sr. Technical Program Manager is to ensure alignment of goals, priorities and activities to achieve desired outcomes shared across all contributing teams, outlined below.

Looking back on your first 12 months at Komodo Health, you will have…

• Led program activities to ensure high quality results within defined time and budget timelines. 
• Collaborated with business leaders and executive team to develop the end to end approach and evaluation of programs.
• Analyzed and shared program-specific insights and recommendations to achieve operational effectiveness and expected benefits capture.
•  Assessed and measured ongoing impact and evaluates changes to key assumptions / planned impact.
• Driven execution and the adoption of OKR planning processes and agile development practices and use of standard project management tools to align and map key engineering activities to clearly defined goals for the program areas and engineering initiatives that this individual is responsible for.
• Influenced technical leads on how teams can decouple complex interdependencies to minimize the risks of slippages caused by resource and schedule constraints.
• Supported other members of the Technical Program Management team through mentoring and teaching of shared learnings.

These are the essential job duties you will be responsible for …

• Evolving and improving the technical program operational model which includes creating, implementing, and executing processes and workflows leveraging product roadmap priorities.
• Implementing capability planning framework, enhance and iterate on the release train processes and performance, and instill accountability within Engineering and Product. 
• Facilitating and driving some of the operating mechanisms, in order to meet deadlines for releases, align on the direction, make decisions, and remove blockers for high-priority strategic initiatives and top-down level OKRs/KPIs.
• Defining and/or leading strategic programs that are often nascent and/or ambiguous.
• Managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating blockers, risks, and trade offs.
• Showcasing excellent written and verbal communication skills, including clear articulations of business impact and technical constraints tailored to the audience.
• Tackling problem spaces and quickly bringing organization and direction.

What you bring to Komodo Health:

• Experience as a Jira Admin 
• Prior experience as a Program Manager with a technical background (engineering and data-related)
• Can identify a vision to meet the end goal, evaluating situations, decisions, and issues in the short, medium, and long term. You can hit the ground running managing a successful end-to-end lifecycle of highly complex projects using strong technical aptitude and knowledge. 
• Track record of organizing many parts of a project/product into one functioning whole, contributing to breaking down details of the project/product and putting them into a plan, and ownin