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Program Lead

Location: San Francisco, CA

Job Type: contract

Company: IDR

Category: Project Management

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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.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. IDR is subject to certain governmental recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the administration of civil rights laws and regulations. In order to comply with these laws, we invite employees to voluntarily self-identify their race or ethnicity, gender, and veteran status (if applicable). Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide it will not subject you to any adverse treatment. The information obtained will be kept confidential and may only be used in accordance with the provisions of applicable laws, executive orders, and regulations, including those that require the information to be summarized and reported to the federal government for civil rights enforcement. You may access this form here.

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