Role & responsibilities

Product Development

- Own and maintain the PDM product backlog, ensuring user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements are clearly defined and sprint-ready.

- Partner with engineering to drive clarity, prioritization, and on-time delivery across PDM release cycles.

- Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning support, and release coordination for the PDM roadmap.

- Identify and resolve delivery bottlenecks; track feature progress against roadmap commitments.

- Document product decisions, feature specifications, and technical dependencies for cross-functional alignment.

Go-to-Market (GTM) Enablement

- Develop and maintain product collateral including value propositions, one-pagers, messaging frameworks, and competitive positioning for PDM.

- Support pricing research, packaging strategy, and readiness materials in coordination with Sales and Marketing.

- Create and update demo content, product documentation, and launch deliverables for new PDM features and releases.

- Collaborate with marketing to align product capabilities to buyer personas and customer pain points in the provider data space.

- Contribute to sales enablement by translating technical product capabilities into explicit, compelling business value narratives.

Market & Competitive Research

- Conduct ongoing competitive analysis and market scanning focused on provider data management, provider directory accuracy, and credentialing.

- Track regulatory developments (e.g., CMS interoperability rules, No Surprises Act,



CAHPs) and assess their impact on the PDM roadmap.

- Identify whitespace opportunities and emerging customer needs; translate findings into actionable product recommendations.

Operational Efficiency

- Provide near-24-hour productivity coverage leveraging offshore time zones to accelerate research, documentation, and product ops tasks.

- Reduce dependency on a lean onshore team by owning defined workstreams end-to-end.

Preferred candidate profile

Required

- 4+ years of product management or product analyst experience, with at least 2 years in a healthcare IT or SaaS environment.

- Demonstrated experience owning a product backlog and writing PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

- Proven ability to support or lead go-to-market activities including collateral development, launch planning, and sales enablement.

- Strong analytical and written communication skills; able to synthesize complex topics for diverse audiences.

- Proficient with agile tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.

Preferred

- Hands-on experience with provider data management, provider directory, credentialing, or network management platforms.

- Familiarity with CAQH, NPPES, NPI registry, or similar provider data standards and sources.

- Knowledge of CMS interoperability mandates, No Surprises Act requirements, or payer-provider data exchange frameworks.

- Experience conducting customer discovery interviews or win/loss analysis.

📌 Offshore Product Manager(Provider Data Management) (PDM)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Bengaluru