Data Product Owner Lead – (Healthcare)- Remote - Contract - Need 10+ years exp

Job Title: Data Product Owner Lead – Healthcare
Location: Remote
Experience: 10+ Years
Industry: Health Insurance / Healthcare

We are looking for a Data Product Owner Lead to lead a team of Data Product Owners and establish a scalable data product management practice within a health insurance environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop Data Product Owners, establishing clear roles, processes, standards, and accountability.

• Serve as the business–technology bridge, translating business needs into data products, capabilities, requirements, and priorities.

• Partner with health plan leaders across Claims, Membership/Eligibility, Provider/Network, Clinical, Pharmacy, Finance, Operations, and Regulatory Reporting.

• Partner with Data Engineering, Architecture, Analytics, Governance, and Platform teams to deliver scalable data solutions.

• Drive data product portfolio prioritization, balancing business value, regulatory needs, technical feasibility, dependencies, and capacity.

• Establish data product standards around ownership, lifecycle, quality, lineage, documentation, SLAs, adoption, and success metrics.

• Define decision rights and accountability across business, product, technology, data governance, and architecture teams.

• Champion a product mindset for data, moving from project/request-based delivery toward reusable, governed, consumer-focused data products.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in health insurance, healthcare, data/analytics, product management, or technology.

• Strong health plan/payer domain expertise, particularly Claims, Eligibility, Benefits, Provider/Network, Pharmacy, Clinical, and Finance.

• Experience leading Data Product Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, or similar teams.

• Strong understanding of modern data platforms, data warehouses/lakes, APIs, analytics, data governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality.

• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive decisions in complex, matrixed organizations.

• Experience building or maturing data/product management practices in evolving organizations.

• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, coaching, and executive presentation skills.