Special Projects, Interim Chief of Staff

Datavant is a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs.

A Chief of Staff will give our CPO leverage, own whole projects and get them off her plate. With an effective Chief of Staff in place, our CPO would rarely say “I’m not able to focus on what I do best” or “that important priority fell through the cracks”.

You will be a key facilitator of the product organization’s leadership team; your effort is core to efficiently operate and scale our identified product team.

Your work will include contributions to strategic planning, project management, performance analysis, team analytics, executive meetings, and communications. This role will report to the Chief Product Officer,

Working closely with ID Product leadership and cross-functionally with other teammates, you will:

• Lead and support high-priority special projects from scoping, planning, preparation, stakeholder management and resourcing all the way through project execution. Examples potential projects include:
• Building slide decks for regulators and policy makers in healthcare
• Driving consistency in product voice and metrics across BU vertical reviews
• Prepping communication for major internal and external moments of visibility
• Going deep into data (financial, product, etc) to help think through a critical path forward.
• Driving clarity and consistency around financial and product metrics & communication to the wider product team.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders on CPO presence at the Future of Health Data Summit and other major internal and external events.
• Collaborating with other stakeholders on product operating model including but not limited to
• Ensuring annual planning (budget / strat plan) is well coordinated and presented.
• Coordinating the monthly CPO/CTO reviews
• Ensuring adequate preparation and execution for High Prio reviews with the CEO.
• Serve as critical connective tissue:
• This role will include setting rhythms and cadences through the facilitation of Product Leadership Team Staff meetings, gathering of feedback from 1:1s throughout the ID Product team, and synthesizing that into effective all-hands broadcasts and agendas for off-site summits etc.
• You will own key rituals for the ID Product team as needed including strategic account reviews, all hands, offsite planning, product leadership meetings etc.
• You will collaborate with the Chief of Staff to the CTO and other key cross-functional team members to ensure coordination across operational initiatives.
• You own the unit economics of a high functioning product team
• You ensure that we are operating within our budget.
• You collaborate with the People Team, Talent Acquisition and other team members to ensure we are maximizing the value of our investments in additional head count, consultants, tooling, travel & entertainment etc.
• You ensure the CPOs directs have what they need
• You own any issues around onboarding, scaling & managing their teams etc.
• You are a partner to the Product Leadership team in all things, big and small.

What You Bring to the Table:

• You’re a world class communicator: you make compelling business propositions via conversation and presentation.
• You believe everything is your responsibility, and you can figure anything out
• You are highly organized and reliable; you bring structure to complexity
• You are excited to collaborate cross-functionally
• You never let things fall through the cracks. You’ll be crucial in keeping daily/weekly trains on the tracks.
• You hunger for a holistic view of the business, and knowledge on how to deploy that strategic perspective to drive cross-functional results.
• You’re comfortable with projects that have ambiguous execution steps.
• You have an affection for startup scrappiness.
• You’re exceptionally detail-oriented and analytical.
• You have zero ego: no job too small or too big mindset.
• You have strong relationship management skills: engaging, motivating, communicating and executing.
• You thrive in a multi-tasking environment and can adjust priorities on-the-fly.
• You’re driven: No one needs to push you; it’s just who you are.
• You’re eager to learn, adapt and perfect your work; you seek out help and put it to good use.

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks and industry best practices.

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $105,000 - $170,000.

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