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Vizient

Healthcare performance improvement and supply chain

Platform Product Manager - Ontology & Knowledge Graph

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$77.4k - $135.4k+ Incentive eligible
Junior, Mid
Bachelor's
Centennial, CO, USA+3 moreMore locations: Edina, MN, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Irving, TX, USA
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ProductTechnical Product Management

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 2 years of relevant experience is required.
  • Experience partnering with engineering and data teams to translate business concepts into scalable semantic models, entity relationships, and reusable platform capabilities.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools such as Codex/ChatGPT, Claude Code/Co-Work, GitHub Copilot/Copilot Studio, and emerging agentic coding environments to improve product discovery, requirements development, documentation, analysis, and communication.
  • Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive adoption, reuse, quality, and measurable business value across platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
  • Own the product backlog and near-term roadmap for assigned Knowledge & Semantic Platform capabilities, including ontology, knowledge graph, taxonomy, metadata management, semantic modeling, and related platform services.
  • Conduct discovery with internal clients to understand business concepts, workflow needs, data relationships, AI use cases, and opportunities to improve semantic consistency and intelligence delivery.
  • Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, semantic models, entity relationships, metadata standards, prompt and context artifacts, and validation approaches that enable scalable AI-driven solutions.
  • Partner with engineering leads, architects, AI Delivery, data engineering, security, and design teams to translate business concepts into reusable semantic platform capabilities.
  • Balance delivery priorities across internal client needs, engineering capacity, architecture direction, governance requirements, data stewardship practices, and emerging AI-assisted development opportunities.
  • Collaborate with teams using agentic coding tools, AI-assisted development environments, and AI-supported testing, documentation, and validation workflows to improve delivery quality and speed.
  • Support implementation planning, release readiness, documentation, validation, and adoption activities while promoting consistent semantic standards and reusable platform capabilities.
  • Use metrics, operational insights, client feedback, and AI-supported synthesis to refine backlog priorities and continuously improve ontology, metadata quality, semantic relationships, and platform adoption.
  • Create guidance, demonstrations, communications, and enablement resources that help internal teams effectively leverage semantic platform capabilities, knowledge graph assets, and AI-first development practices.
  • Identify opportunities to improve metadata quality, semantic consistency, data stewardship, self-service, and reusable knowledge assets that enhance AI-enabled products and retrieval-augmented generation capabilities.
Desired Qualifications
  • Typically possesses 3–5 years of relevant experience in product management, product ownership, enterprise platforms, knowledge management, semantic technologies, AI-enabled products, or platform enablement.
  • Experience working with ontology, knowledge graphs, taxonomy, semantic modeling, metadata management, graph databases, or related knowledge management technologies.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled applications, retrieval-augmented generation, large language models, or other AI technologies that leverage structured knowledge and semantic data.
  • Understanding of data stewardship, metadata governance, healthcare data concepts, and semantic consistency principles.

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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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

Company News

Business Wire
Jun 15th, 2026
Vizient Acquires Empierus to Expand IT Spend Management and Cost Optimization Capabilities

The acquisition builds on Vizient’s continued investment in specialized expertise across indirect spend categories.

FinancialContent
Jun 11th, 2026
Vizient acquires Empierus to boost IT spend management for healthcare organisations

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.

Associated Press
Apr 20th, 2026
Vizient unveils integrated supply chain platform to strengthen healthcare purchasing governance and performance

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.

Business Wire
Jun 26th, 2024
Vizient to Acquire Kaufman Hall, Expanding Advisory Expertise for Healthcare Industry

Vizient announced that it has exercised its option to acquire the remaining interest in Kaufman Hall, a strategic advisor to the healthcare industry.

Business Wire
Oct 31st, 2023
Vizient Announces Acquisition of PrefTech OR, a Next-generation Physician Preference Card Management Technology

Vizient announces it has acquired PrefTech OR's next-generation, cloud-based preference card management software for healthcare providers.