Lead Director

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Position Summary

CVS Health is embarking on a bold digital agenda to transform health care and empower millions of customers on their path to better health. We are creating innovative, enterprise digital solutions that will make health care more accessible, integrated, and reliable for more people. We are looking for passionate, driven people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in the lives of customers and want to be on the ground floor of digital innovation.

The Lead Director in Commercial, Network and Provider is responsible for product management leadership for multiple product teams. They are responsible for owning and defining the product vision and strategy, the roadmap, feature delivery, and overall success of the product to enable a best-in-class E2E experience.

They manage a backlog of features and enablers to enhance the product and extend its architectural and discovery runway. They are responsible for overall product health, inclusive of technical health, and risk communication. They provide leadership and guidance on how to sequence and prioritize investments to optimize value.

This is an individual contributor role who will lead product teams to achieve key outcomes by collaborating with Product Owners, Domain Owners, and Analysts and is responsible for creating a positive team culture through growing, coaching, and establishing high performing teams.

This individual will generally work closely with the Business General Manager, Design, Engineering, and Data/Analytics forming the “Five in a Box” cross-discipline product team. They will serve as the main point-of-contact with other stakeholders such as architects, tech-ops, security, etc. to ensure overall cohesion for their product or experience.

Product Vision, Strategy, and Roadmaps

• Defines and socializes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap in collaboration with the 5-in-the-box team; assesses and refines as needed.
• Establishes Epics or initiatives that are aligned to the strategic programs and deliver upon the product strategy.
• Partners with business general manager (GM) and stakeholders to make decisions on investment priorities and develop business cases.
• Translates customer and business needs into short-term and long-term product strategy by creating initiatives/epics defined to meet targeted outcomes.
• Connects the roadmap to specific value drivers that contribute to business priorities, objectives and key results, and strategic programs.
• Responsible for aligning roadmaps, backlogs, capacity, timelines, and commitments across the respective product areas needed to deliver.
• Defines product OKRs to evaluate progress towards outcomes, aligned with business objectives.

Product Backlog Ownership, User Story Development, and Prioritization

• Responsible for aligning roadmaps, backlogs, capacity, timelines, and commitments across the respective product areas needed to deliver.
• Facilitates agile ceremonies & meetings, including PI Planning, in partnership with the product leadership team.
• Define epics, features and partner with respective product owners to define user stories, identifies dependencies, and works with teams to size ahead of future quarters.
• Ensures that incremental learnings from product delivery are prioritized in the backlog.

Trend Monitoring and Product Performance

• Uses performance data to establish feedback loops to continuously develop new insights and hypotheses about product health. Key metrics include core Product Metrics, Technical Health, Customer Feedback (and/or other appropriate metrics).
• Tracks product OKRs to understand progress towards outcomes and KPIs to understand product health, socializes progress, and consistently reinforces objectives and alignment with solution-level or portfolio outcomes.
• Coordinates product launches, including beta testing, user feedback collection, and product documentation.

Product Value, Cross-Functional Teaming, and Stakeholder Management

• Sets the direction and provides continuous feedback for discovery work, ensuring that the product team is focused on continuous exploration.
• Understands market and customer needs through partnership with business & customer insight teams.
• Accountable for showcasing the product teams’ delivery and final output to stakeholders.
• Interface and partners with Product Strategy to communicate progress, insights, and risks across the business, specifically with key stakeholders.
• Ensures business strategies and targeted outcomes are well understood and socialized to product teams.
• Leads the 5-in-the-box cross-functional team, including strong partnership with business General Managers.

Grow and Develop the Team

• Understands the hiring market to identify successful candidates with the unique blend of personality and skillset matches.
• Champions strong product management and agile mindsets and values by actively communicating team wins and opportunities.
• Establishes high performing teams by growing, coaching, and maintaining quality Product Owners and Domain Owners and defining team norms on how teams working on this product operate.
• Responsible for promoting and setting a customer-centric culture where all teams understand the current performance of the product, opportunities areas and the north star vision, and are monitoring and proactively reacting to key product health metrics and communicating updates.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technical product management, with focus around building technical products and services.
• 5+ years of experience working in the healthcare payor industry.
• 5+ years of experience in building and managing technical product teams using Agile framework.
• Able to travel up to 5% annually.
• Able to support central time hours.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to drive cross functional teams to alignment in the midst of ambiguity.
• Experience working with Cloud computing technologies and Micro-services architectures.
• Previous experience with large-scale modernization programs in technical capacity.
• Strong decision-making skills in fast moving environments.
• Experience leading product transformation within a large enterprise.
• Strong negotiation, organizational, management, analytical and people skills.
• Data-driven decision making and quantitative analysis skills.
• General understanding of core programming and computer science concepts, including cloud and AI/ML.
• Agile Certification
   

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$144,200.00 - $288,400.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.  Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees.  The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners.  As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies. 
 
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 03/14/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.