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John Mayer

Technical Recruiter at IDR, Inc.
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Job
Program Lead
San Francisco, California, United States
CONTRACT
TERMS: contract
START DATE: 4/1/26

IDR is seeking a Program Lead to join one of our top clients for an opportunity in San Francisco, CA. This role involves supporting a critical healthcare project within a leading organization’s commercial practice, focusing on product strategy, cross-functional delivery, and stakeholder management. The position requires onsite presence in San Francisco and offers a chance to lead impactful digital initiatives.

Position Overview for the Program Lead:

  • Own product vision and strategy: define the product north star, outcomes, and multi-quarter roadmap aligned to business goals and value drivers.
  • Lead cross-functional delivery across a portfolio/workstreams: partner with project managers (PMs), workstream leads, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to build and maintain an integrated plan with clear milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
  • Serve as primary product point of contact (POC): provide single-point accountability for product decisions, priorities, scope, and tradeoffs across stakeholders.
  • Establish operating cadence and governance: run intake and prioritization, roadmap and release reviews, decision forums, and contribute to weekly program/status reporting; escalate as needed through governance.
  • Manage end-to-end prioritization and backlog health: maintain a prioritized backlog across teams/workstreams, balancing business value, risk, dependencies, and capacity; lead backlog refinement and ensure readiness standards are met.

Requirements for the Program Lead:

  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 5+ years leading digital product management for consumer-facing web and/or mobile products.
  • Experience in healthcare product and program delivery in complex, cross-functional environments.
  • Strong agile product delivery capability: roadmaps, backlogs, discovery, release planning, and operating rhythms (Scrum / Scaled Agile).
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize and make tradeoffs using data, customer insight, and business outcomes.

What's in it for you?

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Full Benefits; Medical, Vision, Dental, and more!
  • Opportunity to get in with an industry leading organization.

Why IDR?

  • 25+ Years of Proven Industry Experience in 4 major markets
  • Employee Stock Ownership Program
  • Dedicated Engagement Manager who is committed to you and your success.
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
  • ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® Client and Talent Award winner 12 years in a row.