New Product Development Lead

Role Description

The New Product Development Lead is one of the most important leadership hires we'll make this year. You'll build and lead the team responsible for every reusable data product artifact at Qualified Health — transformation notebooks, validation pipelines, data specifications, IaC modules, and the initial agentic LLM call development that sits at the heart of our clinical AI workflows.

Today, this work is being done ad-hoc by our integration team alongside customer deployments. You're going to change that. You'll create a dedicated product engineering function that builds tested, documented, reusable artifacts — the kind that can be deployed to a new health system partner in days instead of weeks. You own the backlog, you set the technical standards, and you drive the architecture decisions that determine how our data products scale.

This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape how Qualified Health builds its core data product layer. You'll work across three product families — revenue cycle, care gap optimization, and quality registry abstraction — each with multiple active agentic workflows. The right person in this role will dramatically increase the throughput of our integration teams by eliminating per-partner reinvention and replacing it with a library of production-grade, reusable components.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of 4-5 data engineers focused on new builds
• Own the product data engineering backlog in partnership with product management
• Define and enforce technical standards for notebooks, pipelines, QC modules, and documentation
• Drive the development of reusable data provisioning modules (IaC) and pipeline tooling
• Lead the build-out of data transformation and validation notebooks for agentic workflows
• Oversee initial agentic LLM call development within data pipelines — including prompt engineering, model serving patterns, and evaluation frameworks
• Own data spec documentation and ensure specs are maintained as products evolve
• Collaborate closely with Client Integration Directors to ensure product artifacts deploy cleanly into customer environments
• Develop team members technically and professionally; create a high-output engineering culture

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. A Master's degree is preferred.
• 8+ years in data engineering, with 3+ years in a technical leadership role
• Deep Databricks/Spark expertise at the architecture level — performance tuning, cluster management, Delta Lake design patterns
• Experience building reusable data frameworks, tooling, or platforms
• Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain strong engineers

Ideal Experience

• Exposure to ML/LLM pipeline development — model serving, prompt engineering in production, evaluation frameworks
• Healthcare data experience (Epic Clarity, clinical data models, FHIR)
• IaC experience (Terraform, Bicep)
• Background building product-oriented data platforms (not just ETL/ELT pipelines)
• Prior experience at a growth-stage startup where you built a team from scratch

Desirable Skills

• Architectural Vision: Ability to see across multiple product families and design data foundations that serve all of them — not one-off solutions for each
• Product Engineering Instincts: You think about your output as a product: versioned, tested, documented, and designed for the consumer (in this case, the integration team deploying it to partners)
• Technical Depth + Leadership Range: You're comfortable operating at both the architecture whiteboard and the code review level — and you know when to toggle between them
• Influence Without Authority: You'll need to drive adoption of your team's artifacts across integration pods that have their own priorities and habits
• Builder Mentality: You're energized by creating something from nothing — building a team, establishing processes, and shipping the first version of things that don't exist yet

Travel Requirements

This role is primarily remote. Occasional travel may be required for team on-sites, leadership meetings, or partner-facing architecture discussions. Candidates should be prepared for 5-10% travel.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries with equity packages
• Robust medical/dental/vision insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work options
• An inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation

Pay & Benefits

The pay range for this role is between $195,000 and $240,000, and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits.