Job description

Together, we innovate for a stronger Colorado The work of employees at the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is challenging and diverse because the needs of agencies, customers and Coloradans constantly evolve. But our focus never changes: improve the lives of all Coloradans through innovation and collaboration. We're building one of the nation's leading government IT organizations by reimagining how we support agencies, building first-of-their-kind applications, and creating an inclusive, collaborative culture, together. Join us in the important work of providing equitable access to services. Watch this video to learn more about how we're Serving People. Serving Colorado. TERM LIMITED POSITION: This position is term limited with an anticipated end date of approximately one year from the date of hire. This position is eligible for State employee benefits and may be extended as the situation warrants. This video explains the many benefits of working at the State of Colorado on a term limited basis . IMPORTANT NOTE: Please review your application to ensure completion. For the most equitable applicant experience, OIT’s hiring team considers only the contents of your application to review your qualifications. Please do not include any attachments (such as resume or cover letter) with your application as these items are not used by OIT’s hiring team. The Senior Product Manager serves as the Product Lead for Consent Management, Provider Directory (PD), and Community Resource Inventory (CRI) initiatives within the Office of eHealth Innovation (OeHI). The primary goal of consent management at OeHI is to improve data sharing across the state of Colorado via a software solution—a consent platform that is easy and user-friendly for individuals, empowering Coloradans to share their data while understanding the benefits of doing so. Because consent is fundamentally about permissions and trust, this role drives the development and implementation of a statewide approach to consent management. This initiative aligns and harmonizes the consents required for integrating physical health, mental health, social services, and payer information, removing inconsistencies caused by varying risk tolerances and complex legal regulations (such as HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2). Unlike a traditional business analyst or project coordinator, this is a prioritization and strategy role—not a passive requirements-gathering role. The Senior Product Manager owns the product backlog, drives program strategy and planning, leads vendor oversight, acts as a subject matter expert (SME) on consent policy, runs agile planning cycles, and grounds every decision in user research, legal collaboration, and outcome-based metrics. The goal of the community resource inventory and provider directory initiatives at OeHI are to establish unified, interoperable data foundations across Colorado’s social care and health sectors. For the Provider Directory, this role leads the alignment and synchronization of Colorado’s parallel directories—Contexture ONE, BHA’s OwnPath, and the OeHI Provider Directory—under a shared data model to ensure accurate, consistent provider information across the state. For the Community Resource Inventory (CRI), this role drives the strategy for standardized, closed-loop referral exchange, connecting healthcare, behavioral health, and community-based organizations so Coloradans can navigate services seamlessly without repeating their story. Some of the important areas you will focus on include the following: Product Ownership & Backlog Management : Write and maintain a well-groomed backlog using user stories that are outcome-oriented, appropriately sized, and grounded in real constituent and provider needs. Draft initial product backlogs for RFPs, translating problem spaces into indicative user stories that structure procurement without locking into fixed, rigid scope. Program Strategy & Prioritization: Apply frameworks such as Value vs. Effort or "Now/Next/Later" to make and defend project prioritization and decision-making. Proactively manage scope by saying "no" clearly and constructively to work that does not serve the core mission of harmonized, user-friendly consent management. Consent Policy & Legal Collaboration: Serve as an SME and Thought Partner on consent, data sharing, and policy. Collaborate deeply with the OeHI Data Governance Product Manager, legal teams, and policy experts to navigate and harmonize complex health information regulations (e.g., HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and Colorado state requirements). Lead workgroups to establish common policies and procedures for obtaining consent across varied organizational risk tolerances. Provider Directory Harmonization: Drive the Provider Directory Interoperability Initiative to establish a shared data model, governance structure, and automated synchronization mechanism across Colorado's primary provider directories (Contexture ONE, BHA OwnPath, and others) to resolve data fragmentation and duplication. CRI & Social Care Interoperability Strategy: Lead the product vision and backlog for statewide Community Resource Inventory (CRI) and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) data exchange, embedding interoperability standards across state-funded care coordination and referral tools. Stakeholder Engagement & Executive Communication: Build strong relationships across state agencies, healthcare providers, payers, and social services. Conduct executive communications and presentations, and lead quarterly roadmap conversations with agency leadership to align long-term data-sharing goals with delivery capacity. Vendor & Technical Delivery Oversight: Provide vendor oversight and coordination. Collaborate with engineering and Delivery Engineers on technical architecture decisions and build/buy/SaaS evaluations for the consent platform, bringing mission-impact perspective and constituent needs into technology investment choices. Agile Execution & Design Integration: Run essential agile planning cycles, including sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives. Partner regularly with Service Designers to interpret journey maps, blueprints, and problem frames, translating these artifacts into actionable backlog inputs that simplify the user experience. Outcome & Metric Ownership: Define and track objectives and key results (OKRs) and success metrics centered on automated data sharing, consent adoption, and mission impact; evaluate and communicate openly when shipped features fail to deliver expected outcomes. Capacity Building: Build the product ownership capacity of agency staff over time, ensuring the agency becomes a stronger, more capable partner. Lifecycle Management: Manage the consent platform's lifecycle from discovery and initial implementation through ongoing continuous improvement. A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this salary analysis. This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows: Minimum Qualifications: A minimum of five (5) years of experience in health related technology product management, which includes working in or leading cross-functional teams using iterative, user-centered methods. Demonstrated track record of working across disciplines—design, engineering, legal/policy, or operations—to ship technology solutions that work for real people. Substitutions: Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications. Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications. If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis. Preferred Qualifications: Relevant certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Pragmatic Institute Product Management, or Professional Product Manager (PPM). Experience working within a digital service agency or a government-adjacent technology firm, successfully translating mission-driven policy goals into actionable product backlogs. Experience evaluating software solutions (e.g., custom build, SaaS, commercial off-the-shelf) and managing vendor relationships to ensure external technical deliveries align with agile, outcome-oriented product roadmaps. Background in User-Centered Design (UCD). Conditions of Employment: OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work. A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process. Post-employment background checks will be required for specific agencies as business needs dictate, which may include a polygraph exam, fingerprint-based criminal history search, reference checks, and a drug test. This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed. This position may require on-call duties as needed by the position. If this posting indicates “remote from anywhere in CO” in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado. While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date. We know it's important to support each other, and that means having a healthy balance of work and personal time. Visit our benefits to learn more about some of our great offerings that allow us all to have fulfilling lives. Visit our How to Apply webpage to learn more about our application process and what to expect after you apply. The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities. The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at OIT_HR@state.co.us or call (303) 764-7900. This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need. The Governor's Office of Information Technology does NOT offer sponsored Visas for employment purposes.

Requirements

Must-haves

Together, we innovate for a stronger Colorado
Watch this video to learn more about how we're Serving People. Serving Colorado.
The Senior Product Manager serves as the Product Lead for Consent Management, Provider Directory (PD), and Community Resource Inventory (CRI) initiatives within the Office of eHealth Innovation (OeHI).
Some of the important areas you will focus on include the following:
Capacity Building: Build the product ownership capacity of agency staff over time, ensuring the agency becomes a stronger, more capable partner.
Lifecycle Management: Manage the consent platform's lifecycle from discovery and initial implementation through ongoing continuous improvement.
This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:
A minimum of five (5) years of experience in health related technology product management, which includes working in or leading cross-functional teams using iterative, user-centered methods.
Demonstrated track record of working across disciplines—design, engineering, legal/policy, or operations—to ship technology solutions that work for real people.
Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
If this posting indicates “remote from anywhere in CO” in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.

Nice-to-haves

Relevant certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Pragmatic Institute Product Management, or Professional Product Manager (PPM).
Experience working within a digital service agency or a government-adjacent technology firm, successfully translating mission-driven policy goals into actionable product backlogs.
Experience evaluating software solutions (e.g., custom build, SaaS, commercial off-the-shelf) and managing vendor relationships to ensure external technical deliveries align with agile, outcome-oriented product roadmaps.
Background in User-Centered Design (UCD).
Conditions of Employment: OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work.
This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.
This position may require on-call duties as needed by the position.
Visit our How to Apply webpage to learn more about our application process and what to expect after you apply.
This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need.
The Governor's Office of Information Technology does NOT offer sponsored Visas for employment purposes.

Application prep

Use the role’s language and application details while tailoring your materials.

Keywords to mirror

agilescrum

Platform: governmentjobs
Effort: medium

Benefits

Benefits detected in the listing.

Vision