Platform Product Management Director - Data Platform & Operations
About the job
- Seven or more years of relevant experience are required.
- Experience in product management, technical product management, enterprise platform products, data and analytics platforms, artificial intelligence and machine learning products, AI-enabled software delivery, or enterprise technology initiatives is required.
- Demonstrated experience managing enterprise data platform capabilities, including data ingestion, the Enterprise Data Layer, cross-cutting data services, data quality, metadata management, source onboarding, and data governance is required.
- Experience partnering with data engineering, architecture, AI Delivery, and engineering teams to define and deliver scalable platform capabilities is required.
- Proven success leading complex cross-functional platform initiatives, developing platform roadmaps, and influencing senior stakeholders to align investment priorities and technical decisions is required.
- Strong technical fluency across architecture, data, artificial intelligence, integration, identity and access management, governance, internal developer workflows, and agentic or AI-assisted development practices is required.
- Demonstrated ability to coach product teams in modern product management practices while leveraging AI tools effectively without creating unnecessary process overhead is required.
- Ability to influence enterprise investment priorities, technical tradeoffs, internal adoption strategies, and AI-first operating model decisions is required.
- Strong technical stakeholder management, communication, strategic thinking, and leadership skills are required to build scalable product management practices while maintaining a lean operating model.
- Experience developing high-performing teams and fostering collaboration across engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, design, and internal product organizations is required.
- Lead strategy, prioritization, and roadmap alignment across multiple internal platform capability areas.
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of internal data platform capabilities, including data ingestion, cross-cutting data services, the Enterprise Data Layer, data quality, metadata management, governance capabilities, and source onboarding.
- Partner with Vizient Intelligence engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, and product leadership to define platform investment priorities.
- Establish decision frameworks that sequence platform capabilities, address technical debt, improve platform reuse, enhance internal developer productivity, and support AI-assisted and agentic development workflows.
- Align platform roadmaps with measurable outcomes, including reduced delivery friction, increased platform adoption, stronger governance, faster product delivery, and improved AI-first delivery maturity.
- Drive platform capabilities that improve the reliability, accessibility, and reuse of enterprise data across Vizient Intelligence products.
- Collaborate closely with data engineering teams to define platform capabilities that support scalable, high-quality, and governed data solutions.
- Facilitate executive stakeholder alignment on platform direction, funding, dependencies, tradeoffs, adoption expectations, and AI-first operating model changes.
- Represent platform product priorities in leadership forums by translating technical platform strategies into business-relevant decisions and resolving complex cross-functional priorities.
- Guide and develop a small team of platform product professionals through coaching, mentorship, and professional development.
- Establish lightweight platform product management standards, including discovery practices, roadmap narratives, success measures, prompt and context patterns, release planning, adoption planning, and responsible AI tool usage.
- Build strong partnerships across engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, design, and internal product teams to enable consistent platform adoption and delivery outcomes.
- A relevant degree is preferred.
- Knowledge of healthcare data ecosystems and enterprise data management principles is preferred.
About the company
Vizient, Inc. helps healthcare providers improve performance and lower costs. It serves academic medical centers, health systems, community and rural hospitals, and ambulatory care groups by delivering knowledge, solutions, and expertise through members. The company’s main products are in supply chain management, clinical and operational performance improvement, and strategic consulting. It uses data analytics and industry insights to help members optimize operations, increase efficiency, and improve patient outcomes. Revenue comes from membership fees, consulting services, and performance improvement programs, and the company expands capabilities through acquisitions such as Intalere to better serve its member base.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$2B
Headquarters
Irving, Texas
Founded
1977
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Empierus adds IT spend management just as 2026 IT inflation hits 5.66%.
- Q3 2025 renewals included UNC Health, Duke-adjacent networks, and Hawaii Pacific Health.
- Vizient's Winter 2026 outlook warns indirect spend inflation remains structurally elevated through 2027.
What critics are saying
- Premier and HealthTrust attack Vizient's core GPO contracts as hospitals consolidate in 2026.
- Endure's 2026 antitrust fight shows suppliers keep challenging Vizient's contracting power.
- Hospitals can insource analytics and direct sourcing, shrinking Vizient's relevance and fees quickly.
What makes Vizient unique
- Vizient serves more than two-thirds of U.S. acute care providers as member-owned infrastructure.
- Its $156 billion contract portfolio creates unmatched purchasing leverage and pricing data.
- Empierus, Kaufman Hall, and Syntellis deepen analytics, IT contracting, and advisory breadth.
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Benefits
Five weeks (25 days) of PTO
Nine paid company holidays & one floating holiday
Four weeks to work from anywhere in the U.S.
High-deductible health plans
Dental and vision coverage
Health savings account with company contribution
Flexible spending accounts
Headspace wellness app
401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 5 percent
Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
Short-term illness and long-term disability coverage
Tuition assistance program
Discounts on cell phone plans, movie tickets, hotels & much more
Company News
The acquisition builds on Vizient’s continued investment in specialized expertise across indirect spend categories.
Vizient has acquired Empierus, a healthcare-focused advisory firm specialising in information technology contracting and cost optimisation. The acquisition strengthens Vizient's capabilities in managing indirect spend categories as healthcare organisations face mounting financial pressures, particularly in technology-related areas. With healthcare organisations spending over $55 billion annually on IT across cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence and digital transformation, the acquisition aims to help clients bring more technology spend under contract and reduce avoidable costs. Empierus delivered over $36 million in savings for Vizient clients in 2025 through an established partnership. Empierus employees will join Vizient's team of over 250 experts across indirect spend and purchased services categories. Existing client relationships and contracts will remain unchanged.
Vizient is showcasing integrated supply chain capabilities at the Spring IDN Summit in Orlando, designed to help health systems strengthen trust across purchasing, analytics and strategic partnerships. The capabilities include Procure-to-Pay, the only ISO 9001 certified healthcare solution managing the full purchasing process from order through payment; Procedural Analytics, which links pricing and patient data to identify variation and connect supply chain decisions to patient outcomes; and the Vizient Partnership Program, packaging analytics, contracting, purchasing and advisory services to improve enterprise non-labour spend. The healthcare performance improvement company serves over two-thirds of the nation's acute care providers. Its contract portfolio represents $156 billion in annual purchasing volume. Vizient is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
Vizient announced that it has exercised its option to acquire the remaining interest in Kaufman Hall, a strategic advisor to the healthcare industry.
Vizient announces it has acquired PrefTech OR's next-generation, cloud-based preference card management software for healthcare providers.