Vice President of Product at Jackson Healthcare in Nashville, TN

Job description

Overview Kimedics, LLC is one of LocumTenens.com families of companies. Kimedics is building workforce solutions for healthcare staffing to help operations teams and clinicians spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on patient care. With the growing clinician shortage, medical groups have to rely on collaboration with their clinician networks and staffing partner organizations to fill their schedule efficiently - and without the right tool this can get incredibly complicated and expensive fast. We help them organize and optimize their practice staffing and scheduling operations! We have built a full-stack end-to-end solution consisting of roster management, credentialing and document task templates, scheduling apps, pay calculation automation and analytics dashboards that empower healthcare organizations to optimize their schedule and rosters for the best fit and cost optimized schedule. We are a Jackson Healthcare company and we are now the third largest healthcare staffing company in the U.S., serving more than 7 million patients in over 1,400 healthcare facilities. The Vice President, Product will serve as the senior product leader for Kimedics. This role owns the full product function: vision, strategy, multi-quarter roadmap, team leadership, and product innovation. The VP of Product translates market opportunity, enterprise customer insight, and competitive positioning into a disciplined, prioritized roadmap that drives new customer acquisition, expansion revenue, and retention across a complex multi-stakeholder customer base that includes large health systems, physician organizations, and managed services partners. This leader will lead and further develop the product management organization, including overseeing product management processes, ensuring product design accountability, and developing the team's AI-assisted delivery capabilities while partnering closely with Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, and executive leadership. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND BASIC DUTIES: Product Strategy & Roadmap Leadership — 70% Define and own the product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap in alignment with company revenue and growth goals, with direct accountability to the President and LT executive leadership Partner with executive leadership to translate market opportunity, customer needs, and competitive positioning into a disciplined, prioritized roadmap Identify and prioritize opportunities to embed AI-driven automation and predictive analytics into the platform, translating AI capability into concrete workflow outcomes and customer value for practice management, health system operations, and staffing leaders Lead product discovery through customer interviews, market research, win/loss analysis, and usage data to validate product investment decisions before commitment Own product pricing and packaging strategy in partnership with Sales and Finance to support ARR growth and expansion revenue Establish and report on key product metrics (adoption, retention, NPS, feature usage) to measure product-market fit and inform prioritization Champion and defend Kimedics' vendor-neutral, agency-agnostic positioning in all product strategy and customer-facing conversations; ensure that platform decisions reinforce rather than compromise this core market differentiator Monitor the competitive landscape, including VMS incumbents, scheduling platforms, credentialing vendors, and emerging workforce operations technology and translate competitive intelligence into product strategy adjustments Drive product transformation initiatives that create competitive differentiation and accelerate market growth Team Leadership & Organizational Development — 30% Lead, build, and modernize the product management organization through a period of structural transition, including role redesign, onboarding, domain ownership, and operating models to build a high-performing team that scales innovation without sacrificing execution discipline In