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Digital Business-Corp
Work Shift:
Day
Job Category:
Information Technology
Estimated Pay Range:
$50.12 - $83.54 / hour Banner Health is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted compensation range is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay Banner Health in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. This range is based on possible base salaries and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location, along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure pay equity is achieved and maintained.
Innovation and highly trained staff. Banner Health recently earned Great Place To Work® Certification™. This recognition reflects our investment in workplace excellence and the happiness, satisfaction, wellbeing and fulfilment of our team members. Find out how we’re constantly improving to make Banner Health the best place to work and receive care.
This person will be within our Design group, within our Digital Business, within Information Technology, so your skills and experience will benefit our digital product team, plus you will have the opportunity to support A.I. and Analytics, Plans and Networks, Marketing, and other initiatives.
In this position you will advance understanding of the needs of the people we serve to inform design of experiences that build trust with health care consumers, patients, providers and clinicians, and others. This role is so important for advancing our mission of making health care easier so life can be better. Your skills and experience will benefit our digital product team, plus you will have the opportunity to support A.I. and Analytics, Plans and Networks, Marketing, and other initiatives. You will have varied, interesting work, ranging from standardizing and iterating our research and insight gathering practices to working alongside designers to test and ideate ways to refine custom digital experiences and configured platforms. You will also wield A.I. during your work to not just accelerate, but amplify creativity, inclusion, and clarity of our products.
Hybrid Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm Arizona Time
This can be a remote position if you live in the following state(s) only: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NY, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY
Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.
Position Summary
This position works directly with Digital Business leadership, digital product managers and other stakeholders to provide essential research and data to enable design of experiences that make health care easier. Focuses on understanding and clear communication of needs of the people we serve and researched rationale to inform priorities using qualitative and quantitative insights. In doing so, this role is the voice of our patients, providers and others. Leads Design Research efforts for digital scope, partnering with team members in Marketing, Innovation and Product teams. Establishes and refines effective, repeatable Design Research processes and trains teammates to facilitate and contribute to Design Research.
CORE FUNCTIONS
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Works across Scrum Teams to identify and help prioritize formative and summative research opportunities and coordinates with internal stakeholders and external vendors to plan and enable research.
-
Supports formation and maintenance of a continuous voice of customer and lean testing approach, including recruiting of research pool participants, and creates and maintains a view of results from research for team members and leaders.
-
Collaborates with product, technology and business teams to inform intuitive and engaging customer experiences by planning and conducting research together. Translates questions and hypotheses into research protocols, including recruitment criteria, in collaboration with product team members.
-
Champions design of experience enhancements informed using research data from across effective samples of patients and providers and participates in end-to-end product design by helping designers and other team members understand and apply research insights.
-
Practices and defines formative and summative research methodologies, creating reusable, teachable frameworks and continuously teaching and mentoring designers and other stakeholders to multiply Banner’s ability to inform design with data.
-
Supports clear rationale for research and truly meaningful new qualitative and quantitative insights into behaviors, needs and motivations, distilling findings into clearly articulated and actionable insights to influence the direction of research and continuous product design and definition.
-
Advocates for the people Banner serves through human-centered design methodologies, leading and contributing along the double diamond process, informing framing of problems, ideation and definition of design intent that serves patient and provider needs and meets business objectives.
-
Co-facilitates and contributes to Design Sprints to rapidly move from discovered needs to tested concepts and participates in Minimum Lovable Product, Lean Business Canvas and other processes to inform decisions with outcome-driven research insights, such as patients’ top Jobs to Be Done and Journey analysis.
-
Coordinates selection of subscriptions and manage vendor relationships and contracts to ensure team members have tools needed to engage in research.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Must possess relevant knowledge as normally obtained through the completion of a Bachelor’s degree in the pertinent field or an equivalent level of experience and education.
Must have 4 or more years of related work experience with at least two years of direct or matrixed team member leadership experience.
Must demonstrate a portfolio with experience engaging across the double diamond process, from discovery of needs through ideation and into creation, delivery and testing for continuous improvement. Requires experience with design of experiences that help people get jobs done via effective awareness, self-service guided workflows and in-the-moment support. Should be an expert in planning and facilitation of formative and summative research methods, including Jobs to Be Done, Observational Voice of Customer/Contextual Inquiries, Interviewing, Usability Testing and related metrics.
Must have experience with Design Thinking process and framework, including workshop planning, facilitation and co-creation with engineering, product, marketing team members and customers. Requires considerable experience collaborating with large teams across functions and Agile and Scrum ways of working. Must have strong storytelling skills and ability to problem-solve and work independently.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Some experience in healthcare domains is helpful.
Systems Thinking and Service Design experience is a plus as Banner’s omnichannel digital experiences enable ease of health care across many touch points, including positive impact within hospitals and clinics, mobile apps and operations.
Experience with Figma.
Knowledge of machine learning and how analytics can inform personalized experiences is a plus. Familiarity with intersection of Design Research and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.
EEO Statement:
EEO/Disabled/Veterans
Our organization supports a drug-free work environment.
Privacy Policy:
Privacy Policy
Department Name:
Digital Business-Corp
Work Shift:
Day
Job Category:
Information Technology
Estimated Pay Range:
$50.12 - $83.54 / hour Banner Health is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted compensation range is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay Banner Health in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. This range is based on possible base salaries and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location, along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure pay equity is achieved and maintained.
Innovation and highly trained staff. Banner Health recently earned Great Place To Work® Certification™. This recognition reflects our investment in workplace excellence and the happiness, satisfaction, wellbeing and fulfilment of our team members. Find out how we’re constantly improving to make Banner Health the best place to work and receive care.
This person will be within our Design group, within our Digital Business, within Information Technology, so your skills and experience will benefit our digital product team, plus you will have the opportunity to support A.I. and Analytics, Plans and Networks, Marketing, and other initiatives.
In this position you will advance understanding of the needs of the people we serve to inform design of experiences that build trust with health care consumers, patients, providers and clinicians, and others. This role is so important for advancing our mission of making health care easier so life can be better. Your skills and experience will benefit our digital product team, plus you will have the opportunity to support A.I. and Analytics, Plans and Networks, Marketing, and other initiatives. You will have varied, interesting work, ranging from standardizing and iterating our research and insight gathering practices to working alongside designers to test and ideate ways to refine custom digital experiences and configured platforms. You will also wield A.I. during your work to not just accelerate, but amplify creativity, inclusion, and clarity of our products.
Hybrid Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm Arizona Time
This can be a remote position if you live in the following state(s) only: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NY, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY
Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.
Position Summary
This position works directly with Digital Business leadership, digital product managers and other stakeholders to provide essential research and data to enable design of experiences that make health care easier. Focuses on understanding and clear communication of needs of the people we serve and researched rationale to inform priorities using qualitative and quantitative insights. In doing so, this role is the voice of our patients, providers and others. Leads Design Research efforts for digital scope, partnering with team members in Marketing, Innovation and Product teams. Establishes and refines effective, repeatable Design Research processes and trains teammates to facilitate and contribute to Design Research.
CORE FUNCTIONS
-
Works across Scrum Teams to identify and help prioritize formative and summative research opportunities and coordinates with internal stakeholders and external vendors to plan and enable research.
-
Supports formation and maintenance of a continuous voice of customer and lean testing approach, including recruiting of research pool participants, and creates and maintains a view of results from research for team members and leaders.
-
Collaborates with product, technology and business teams to inform intuitive and engaging customer experiences by planning and conducting research together. Translates questions and hypotheses into research protocols, including recruitment criteria, in collaboration with product team members.
-
Champions design of experience enhancements informed using research data from across effective samples of patients and providers and participates in end-to-end product design by helping designers and other team members understand and apply research insights.
-
Practices and defines formative and summative research methodologies, creating reusable, teachable frameworks and continuously teaching and mentoring designers and other stakeholders to multiply Banner’s ability to inform design with data.
-
Supports clear rationale for research and truly meaningful new qualitative and quantitative insights into behaviors, needs and motivations, distilling findings into clearly articulated and actionable insights to influence the direction of research and continuous product design and definition.
-
Advocates for the people Banner serves through human-centered design methodologies, leading and contributing along the double diamond process, informing framing of problems, ideation and definition of design intent that serves patient and provider needs and meets business objectives.
-
Co-facilitates and contributes to Design Sprints to rapidly move from discovered needs to tested concepts and participates in Minimum Lovable Product, Lean Business Canvas and other processes to inform decisions with outcome-driven research insights, such as patients’ top Jobs to Be Done and Journey analysis.
-
Coordinates selection of subscriptions and manage vendor relationships and contracts to ensure team members have tools needed to engage in research.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Must possess relevant knowledge as normally obtained through the completion of a Bachelor’s degree in the pertinent field or an equivalent level of experience and education.
Must have 4 or more years of related work experience with at least two years of direct or matrixed team member leadership experience.
Must demonstrate a portfolio with experience engaging across the double diamond process, from discovery of needs through ideation and into creation, delivery and testing for continuous improvement. Requires experience with design of experiences that help people get jobs done via effective awareness, self-service guided workflows and in-the-moment support. Should be an expert in planning and facilitation of formative and summative research methods, including Jobs to Be Done, Observational Voice of Customer/Contextual Inquiries, Interviewing, Usability Testing and related metrics.
Must have experience with Design Thinking process and framework, including workshop planning, facilitation and co-creation with engineering, product, marketing team members and customers. Requires considerable experience collaborating with large teams across functions and Agile and Scrum ways of working. Must have strong storytelling skills and ability to problem-solve and work independently.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Some experience in healthcare domains is helpful.
Systems Thinking and Service Design experience is a plus as Banner’s omnichannel digital experiences enable ease of health care across many touch points, including positive impact within hospitals and clinics, mobile apps and operations.
Experience with Figma.
Knowledge of machine learning and how analytics can inform personalized experiences is a plus. Familiarity with intersection of Design Research and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.
EEO Statement:
EEO/Disabled/Veterans
Our organization supports a drug-free work environment.
Privacy Policy:
Privacy Policy
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Research Product Manager
Target STEM-designated degree fields
If your degree is in computer science, engineering, statistics, or a related STEM field, you qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Lead with this in applications. Employers see it as three years of authorization, not one.
Prioritize companies with active research divisions
Large tech companies, biotech firms, and academic-affiliated organizations run structured research programs and hire product managers to bridge research and commercialization. These employers are far more likely to have OPT sponsorship experience than early-stage startups.
Frame your research background as a product differentiator
Research PMs who can read a paper, synthesize findings, and translate them into a product roadmap are rare. Highlight this explicitly in your resume and cover letter. It justifies the sponsorship investment to hiring managers unfamiliar with OPT.
Verify your employer's E-Verify enrollment before accepting
STEM OPT extension requires your employer to be enrolled in E-Verify. Confirm this before signing an offer. If they're not enrolled, you cannot use the extension, even if the employer is otherwise willing to support your status.
Connect your graduate research directly to the role
Hiring managers for research PM roles want to see that you've operated at the intersection of research and product before. Reference specific projects, methodologies, or publications from your graduate work that map to the company's research focus.
Apply early relative to your OPT end date
Most research PM hiring cycles run eight to twelve weeks. Factor in the time to file your STEM extension with USCIS before your current OPT expires. Starting your search at least six months out protects your work authorization timeline.
Research Product Manager OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as a Research Product Manager on OPT?
Yes, as long as the role is directly related to your degree field. Research Product Manager positions typically qualify for students with degrees in computer science, engineering, data science, cognitive science, or a related STEM or research-intensive field. You'll need to ensure your job description and degree connection are clearly documented for your DSO.
Does a Research Product Manager role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not the job title. If you hold a degree in a STEM-designated field and the Research PM role falls within that field of study, you're likely eligible for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Your employer must also be enrolled in E-Verify. Confirm both conditions before assuming you qualify.
How do I find Research Product Manager jobs that are open to OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and surfaces Research PM roles from employers with active sponsorship history. General job boards don't filter for OPT eligibility, so you spend most of your time applying to roles that won't move forward. Searching on Migrate Mate removes that friction from the process.
Do Research Product Manager roles typically lead to H-1B sponsorship?
Many do, particularly at large tech companies, research labs, and enterprise software firms that routinely hire PMs. These organizations have established immigration processes and sponsor H-1B visa petitions each year. Smaller companies or those new to hiring international talent may be willing but less prepared. Ask about their immigration sponsorship history directly during the offer stage.
What degree fields support a Research Product Manager OPT job match?
The most straightforward matches are computer science, human-computer interaction, biomedical engineering, cognitive science, data science, and information systems. MBA graduates with a STEM undergraduate degree can sometimes qualify if the role aligns with the STEM degree, not the MBA. Your DSO can confirm whether a specific role qualifies under your degree's CIP code.