Senior Director Insurance Product
Job Summary
The Senior Director of Insurance Product Innovation & Emerging Solutions will lead the strategy for next-generation lifestyle-focused health solutions. This role involves managing a high-performing team while directly overseeing the product strategy, delivery, and roadmap for market-ready health offerings. The position requires a hands-on leader to drive growth, retention, and long-term portfolio performance across various health insurance channels.
Responsibilities
- Define multi-year strategy for new lifestyle product solutions
- Lead and coach a high-performing team of product managers
- Oversee product roadmap, delivery, and portfolio performance
- Drive cross-functional collaboration and enterprise influence
- Ensure scalable, compliant, and market-specific health solutions
Required Skills
- 12+ years in health insurance and product strategy
- 6+ years of people leadership experience
- Expertise in ACA, QHP, and small group markets
- End-to-end product lifecycle management
- Strong strategic partnership and ecosystem development
Job Details
Responsibilities:
Insurance Product & Portfolio Innovation Strategies
- Define and lead the multi-year strategy for new lifestyle product solutions, including employer-subsidized, multicultural, disease specific, and ancillary offerings.
- Set priorities, investment focus, and roadmap (e.g., consumer journey, partnerships, etc.) across the product portfolio.
- Be the senior product owner, directly shaping programs.
Team Leadership & Capability Building
- Build a team of product manager and strategists.
- Set clear goals, operating rhythm, and accountable for delivery and outcomes.
- Coach team members to operate as end-to-end product owners, not task executors.
- Establish a culture grounded in data analysis, ownership, urgency, and execution focus.
Strategic Partnerships & Lifestyle Ecosystem Development
- Lead development of culturally aligned and linguistically tailored health solutions.
- Promote disease-specific product development, integrating clinical, network, and journey mapping leading to improved health outcomes for our members.
- Ensure health solutions and lifestyle products are scalable, compliant, and with care for community and market specific needs.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Enterprise Influence
- Partner with product design, execution and intelligence teams to ensure products are fileable and operationally ready.
- Lead across product, actuarial, markets, network, growth, and strategy teams to implement.
- Promote agreement on priorities, trade-offs, and timelines to create winning products.
- Deliver clear, executive-level recommendations, influencing important decisions; while staying close to the work, stepping in where needed to accelerate quality outcomes.
Performance & Portfolio Management
- Oversee performance outcomes across growth, retention, affordability, and margin in partnership with market and corporate leadership (e.g., finance, actuarial, network).
- Make decisions to refine or sunset products, based on market portfolios.
- Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree.
- 12+ years experience in health insurance, product strategy (ACA, QHP focused), and insurance product development.
- 6+ years people leadership experience managing multi-level teams.
- Expertise in ACA individual and small group QHP markets.
- Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end product strategy and lifecycle execution.
- Experience launching new insurance products, partnerships, or market expansion.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.