New Product Development Lead

Job description

Transform healthcare with us. At Qualified Health, we're redefining what's possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring — working alongside leading health systems to drive real change. This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you're ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we'd love to have you on board. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare. JOB SUMMARY The New Product Development Lead is one of the most important individual-contributor hires we'll make this year. This is a 0-to-1 role. Given a new product idea, whether it's a clinical use case, a hospital operations problem, a revenue cycle workflow, or any other place AI can drive real value inside a health system, you independently take it from an open question to a working, deployed product, and you stay with it as it matures with real clients. That means doing the data discovery yourself: figuring out what signal actually exists in a client's data, whether it's usable, and what it would take to turn it into something trustworthy enough to run in production. It means designing and building whatever pipeline or agentic workflow the product needs, often something bespoke, built for the specific problem rather than forced into an existing pattern. And it means judgment: knowing when existing platform components are the right foundation to build on, versus when the product calls for something new, and when something new proves out, bringing it back into the platform so it's available for the next product. Ownership doesn't stop at a working prototype. You'll carry products through production deployment and into post-launch iteration directly with health system clients, refining based on what real data and real feedback tell you. Our platform spans a growing set of AI products across clinical, operational, and revenue cycle domains, with several active pipelines already in production or in deployment with clients. And the next one is likely something none of us have scoped yet. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Take new product ideas, spanning clinical, hospital operations, revenue cycle, and other health system domains, from an open, often ambiguous problem statement through to a deployed, working product, owning the full 0-to-1 lifecycle - Independently perform data discovery against client data: assess what signal exists, its quality and completeness, and whether it can support a trustworthy production product - Design and build the data pipeline and agentic AI workflow each product needs, choosing a bespoke approach when the existing platform doesn't fit rather than forcing a mismatched pattern - Exercise judgment on when to build on existing platform infrastructure versus when to build something new - Once an initial bespoke build proves out, bring it into the core data platform: harden it, integrate it with existing pipelines and standards, and make it a supported, reusable part of the platform rather than a one-off - Collaborate directly with clinical, operational, product, and client stakeholders during discovery and validation to ensure the product reflects real domain logic and real workflow needs - Carry products through production deployment and own post-launch iteration directly with health system clients as real-world data and feedback come in - Own data spec documentation for each product you build - Work within platform principles (empirical verification before building, annotations over hardcoded logic, loud failures over silent nulls) without those principles constraining the pace or shape of 0-to-1 discovery REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. Master's degree is preferred. - 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 - Hands-on experience building ML/LLM pipelines: agent/tool-based architectures, model serving, prompt engineering in production, evaluation frameworks - Background as a founding or early engineer on a new product or platform, where you defined the approach rather than inherited one - Direct experience working with clients or end users to validate and refine a product post-launch DESIRABLE SKILLS - 0-to-1 Judgment: Comfortable starting from an open problem, clinical or otherwise, with no defined data path, and independently figuring out what's real, what's usable, and what to build - Build vs. Reuse Instincts: Knows when to build something bespoke for a specific product versus when to lean on existing platform infrastructure, and can generalize a bespoke solution into something reusable once it's proven - Product Engineering Instincts: You think about your output as a product: validated with real data and real domain stakeholders, deployed, and owned through post-launch iteration, not handed off at "done" - Client-Facing Comfort: You're effective working directly with health system clients and their stakeholders during discovery and after launch, not just with internal teams - Builder Mentality: You're energized by creating something from nothing: taking a product from a rough idea to something real in production, independently and end-to-end 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. WHY JOIN QUALIFIED HEALTH? This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing company and a world-class team that is poised to change the healthcare industry. We are a passionate, mission-driven team that is building a category-defining product. We are backed by premier investors and are looking for founding team members who are excited to do the best work of their careers. Our employees are integral to achieving our goals so we are proud to offer competitive salaries with equity packages, robust medical/dental/vision insurance, flexible working hours, hybrid work options and an inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation. OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY Qualified Health is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success, and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we live in. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, or veteran status. 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.