Product Manager (CMS)

Product Manager

About Pluribus Digital

Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public.

Pluribus Digital partners with government customers to design, develop, and deliver impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy—part technologists, part change agents, and all heart. We employ modern engineering practices to solve complex challenges across healthcare, financial regulation, identity management, and digital government services.

About the Role

Pluribus Digital is seeking a Product Manager to support the modernization of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Insurance Oversight System (HIOS). This role is ideal for a product leader who thrives at the intersection of technology, data, and user needs while delivering mission-critical solutions that improve healthcare oversight and operations.

As a Product Manager, you’ll partner with government stakeholders, engineers, architects, data specialists, and UX professionals to define product strategy and guide delivery across complex modernization initiatives. This role is highly collaborative and requires balancing business priorities, technical considerations, and data-driven decision making throughout the product lifecycle.

The HIOS platform supports large volumes of regulatory and operational data, making this position especially well suited for someone with experience delivering data-intensive applications, modern APIs, reporting capabilities, and enterprise-scale software solutions in Agile environments.

Applying modern Digital Services principles and human-centered design, you’ll help ensure products are built around user needs, informed by data, and aligned with CMS mission objectives.

We are committed to continuous employee growth and upskilling, equipping our team with versatile, high-impact skills that drive success across multiple engagements throughout their careers at Pluribus.

What You’ll Do

Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmaps aligned with CMS modernization priorities.

• Partner with government stakeholders to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into product outcomes.

• Prioritize features and capabilities based on mission impact, customer value, technical feasibility, and delivery timelines.

• Drive product decisions using qualitative user feedback, operational metrics, and data insights.

Product Delivery

• Lead cross-functional Agile teams through product planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release activities.

• Develop and maintain well-defined epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, UX, QA, and data teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Support SAFe planning activities, including Program Increment (PI) Planning and roadmap alignment.

Data & Platform Modernization

• Partner with engineering and data teams to define requirements for data-intensive applications, reporting capabilities, APIs, and system integrations.

• Help modernize legacy workflows through scalable, cloud-native product solutions.

• Ensure product decisions support data quality, interoperability, security, and long-term maintainability.

• Leverage analytics and performance metrics to measure product success and identify continuous improvement opportunities.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build trusted relationships with Product Owners, government leadership, technical teams, and external stakeholders.