Spark Team Product Manager
On-siteLittle Rock, Arkansas, United States
Job Summary
Conduct discovery with end users and stakeholders to separate real problems from wishes and own the intake and vetting process for ideas surfaced across the company. Partner with the Spark Team Engineer to scope proofs of concept that answer testable questions in weeks, not quarters, while assessing PHI/PII touchpoints and adoption risks. Make and document advance/return/kill recommendations, presenting them to senior leadership to close every engagement with a clear decision. Run engagement zero to triage the existing portfolio of vibe-coded applications and build the SPARK operating model, including intake cadence and decision documentation. Design and guide the roadmap for Arkana's operating system as a founding role where the mandate is fixed and expectations are calibrated to the candidate.
Required Qualifications
- Product management experience
- Product management experience, ideally in healthcare, SaaS, or regulated environments
- Demonstrated experience taking prototypes/features to production
- Demonstrated experience killing features that did not deserve it
- Comfort with autonomy and accountability in short, high-focus engagements
- Enough technical fluency to discuss APIs, data models, and deployment trade-offs without translation
- Sharp intuition around UI/UX
- Strong discovery and facilitation skills
- Ability to surface real problems quickly
- Clear, concise communicator
- Comfortable presenting recommendations to senior leadership
- The judgment and standing to tell a department that its beloved tool should not exist
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations quickly
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