Data Product Manager

The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission—unchanged since 1913—is to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world. Together with partners and grantees, The Rockefeller Foundation strives to catalyze and scale transformative innovations, create unlikely partnerships that span sectors, and take risks others cannot.

In 2019, the Foundation launched a groundbreaking initiative focused on Precision Public Health that will leverage new digital tools, advanced analytics and AI machine learning. Our aim is to lead the global effort for precision public health by convening the right global partners, driving innovation, engaging the private sector, and developing public goods and best practices.

Reporting to the MD Innovation for Health, the Data Product Manager will help define and advance our innovation mission for precision public health. This is a true hybrid positon that requires data analytics expertise and a strong product skillset.

The Manager will leverage data science and design thinking to ideate and implement data products/features that will strengthen community health systems and improve health outcomes. Fundamental to our approach is the integration of disparate data sources – health and non-health data – to generate actionable insights that enhance workflows, drive behavior change, and accelerate impact. An important differentiator of our approach is that insights will primarily flow downward to the frontline into applications already in the field wherever possible. Our aim is to complement and enhance the existing technology ecosystem.

Sourcing, analyzing and utilizing disparate datasets to inform intuitive health applications will require exceptional analytical skills and creativity. Equally important is a strong collaborative spirit, as the role will interact with a broad range of stakeholders including Foundation leadership, data scientists, consultants, technology partners, academic researchers, government officials and international development specialists.

The Manager will also play a role in assessing and adapting private sector innovation for precision public health. Private sector innovation is not reaching the developing world fast enough, nor is it focused on applications that would improve lives of vulnerable and at risk populations. To bridge the digital divide and accelerate transfer of leading edge technologies, the Manager will help to identify commercially focused companies (early stage and established) with solutions that can be adapted for our use cases. We will collaborate with VCs, corporates, academia and tech firms directly to source promising solutions and define pathways for implementation.

Some travel is required. Our launch markets (“innovation labs”) are India and Uganda, where initial use cases focus on at-risk mothers and children excluded or underserved by current health systems. Over the next 10 years, our goal is to scale to 10+ countries and save the lives of 6m at-risk mothers and children.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• The Data Product Manager is the Health team’s data analytics and product lead, and a thought partner to the MD Innovation, Health.
• Develops requirements, roadmaps and delivery plans for data products and capabilities aligned to specified use cases and impact goals.
• Adept at creating high-quality data products that are well documented, modeled and easy to understand.
• Creates detailed user stories with user scenarios, acceptance criteria, and success measures.
• Works closely with the Foundation’s data science team, consultants and technology partners.
• Mission-driven with a passion for data of all shapes and sizes, and able to navigate around the many obstacles and challenges in the data landscape, e.g. quality, privacy, security and regulations.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and enjoys pushing the boundaries of what insights can be extracted out of diverse datasets for intuitive process change at the frontlines.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) to effectively partner with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to deliver novel insights and practical solutions.
• Aware of the latest technology trends and proactive in identifying private sector innovation that can be adapted for our use cases.

Education, Experience and Skills

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, engineering, analytics or a related field.
• A minimum of 5-7 years’ working in product management and/or data-related initiatives, building and delivering successful data products and capabilities.
• Health technology experience useful, but not required.
• Highly analytical, creative and endlessly curious – eager to explore diverse datasets to uncover new insights that would help address pain points and process inefficiencies at the frontlines.
• Out-of-the-box thinker with strong technical, strategic and problem-solving skills.
• Pragmatic and results-oriented, able to effectively prioritize and make decisions in ambiguous and challenging situations.
• Commitment to The Rockefeller Foundation's mission and core values – effectiveness, equity, integrity, innovation and leadership.
• Excellent judgement and professional standards, with a proven ability to handle sensitive or confidential organizational issues, and to apply appropriate judgement in complex situations.
• The ability to travel occasionally – both domestically and internationally – and a willingness to be flexible in working hours working across different time zones.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Execution: Strong project management skills, upward management, sense of responsibility and accountability and the ability to effectively multi-task.
• Partnership and Relationship Building: Strong professional representation of the Foundation, interpersonal relationship abilities, intercultural knowledge and appreciation, strategic partnership building.
• Strategic Ability: Ability to see opportunities, design innovative approaches backed by strong analysis and planning. Experience in system thinking and adaptive strategic planning.
• Leadership: Vision, innovation, thought leadership, collaboration, integrity, accountability and emotional intelligence.
• Data and Analytics: Experience with latest big data tools and methodologies.
• Integration: Ability to demonstrate inclusiveness, collaboration, respect and broad organizational interests.
• Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication abilities; exceptional listening written and verbal skills.

The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws concerning employment discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. To this end, the Foundation ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, lawful alien status, physical, mental, and medical disability, veteran status or liability for service in the United States Armed Forces.

The Rockefeller Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.