Lead Director Digital Product - Quality & Stars

CVS Health; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Digital Product for Quality & Stars to shape technology strategy that improves Medicare Stars and quality programs. You will guide a multidisciplinary team including product managers, Epic analysts, software engineers, and data scientists to deliver scalable roadmaps focused on safety, patient experience, and contract performance.

The role requires extensive Epic expertise, executive presence, and a track record of leading healthcare technology

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; graduate degree or clinical background preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience spanning healthcare operations, clinical technology product management, and enterprise EHR implementation (Epic).
• Proven history partnering with primary care networks, retail clinics, and value-based care organizations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clinical and business stakeholders to reflect updated guidelines and train care teams.
• Lead end-to-end strategy for Stars measures and payer integrations within the core care platform.
• Drive cross-functional tech teams to enable care model strategy and end-to-end technology delivery.
• Establish shared outcome metrics linking tech investments to quality, patient experience, and financial performance.
• Oversee end-to-end technology design and Epic architectures, translating requirements into build.
• Ensure seamless data integration between external sources and Epic workflows for real-time insights.
• Lead and mentor product teams and cross-functional technology groups to drive CVS HCD initiatives.

Skills

Executive Presence

Epic & Healthcare Tech

Healthcare Operations

Product & Tech Leadership

Problem-Solving

People Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Graduate degree / clinical background preferred

Tools

Epic EHR

Job description

We're building a world of health around every individual - shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger - helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Lead Director, Digital Product - Quality & STARS

Location: Remote

Department: Healthcare Delivery Technology & Product Management

Reports To: Senior Medical Director, Clinical Informatics & Digital Product

Role Overview

As the Lead Director of Digital Product for Quality & Stars you will lead the technology product strategy and execution to drive performance in quality measures and programs, including technical leadership of Health Maintenance, dashboards to drive performance in Medicare Stars programs, and dashboards to drive performance in the ACO lead program. In this high-impact role, you will partner directly with clinical and business operational leaders to shape end-to-end technology pathways that support ambulatory quality performance measurement overall, as well as in payer programs, and that ultimately drive performance outcomes.You will lead a multidisciplinary team of product managers, Epic analysts, software engineers, data scientists, and UI/UX designers to translate clinical and program vision into scalable technology roadmaps that optimize patient outcomes, with an emphasis on safety, a delightful patient and care team experience, and outstanding contract performance in quality & stars.

The candidate must have expertise with value-based care models, payer quality programs, and Epic as a core care delivery platform.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnerships & Care Model Integration

• Partner with clinical and business stakeholders, as well as enterprise governance, to ensure health maintenance topics reflect the most up to date clinical guidelines as well as intake new requests for Health Maintenance topics and move them through multi stakeholder alignment, governance, and execution. Ensure Health Maintenance topics have accurate and up to date training materials available for care teams at the point of care.
• Lead end-to-end strategy for stars across Part C & D measures - ensuring payer files are faithfully loaded into the core care delivery platform, panel management tools for Internal & External Stars programs accurately reflect performance, continuously imagine and reimagining how care teams can use technology to drive performance in Stars quality measures, and ensure consistent partnership with strategy teams on training and communications for field teams.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner for CVS HCD business stakeholders as they define the "why" and the "what' for care model strategy.
• Drive cross-functional technology teams that surface the "how" - technology solutions to enable care model strategy and drive end-to-end execution of technology products.
• Establish shared outcome metrics with business leaders, ensuring all technology investments directly drive improved clinical quality, patient experience, and financial performance.

Product & Technology Leadership

• Lead multidisciplinary technology teams -including Product Managers, Epic Analysts, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and Designers-to build seamless, end-to-end clinical technology pathways that reduce medical costs, while driving patient experience and outcomes.
• Oversee the transformation of broad ideas into rigorous problem statements, actionable product specifications, and robust Epic/technology architectures.
• Accountable for end-to-end technology design, translation into technical requirements, and technology build.
• Ensure smooth integration between external data sources (e.g., claims data, remote monitoring, health plan feeds) and internal Epic workflows to provide clinicians with real-time, actionable insights. Know when these integrations are needed and partner with technical team members to ensure effective execution that works well in clinical practice.

Operational Execution & Continuous Improvement

• Take end-to-end accountability for the technology lifecycle, from initial problem discovery through technical solutioning, build, deployment, and measurable outcome realization.
• Establish continuous feedback loops and iterative improvement cycles to ensure deployed technologies achieve targeted clinical and financial goals.
• Maintain a deep operational understanding of both Value-Based Care (VBC) and Fee-for-Service (FFS) delivery environments to ensure solutions scale across business models.

Team Leadership & Culture

• Lead, mentor, and build a high-performing product team of "translators"-professionals fluent in both healthcare operations and technology capability.
• Lead and mentor cross-functional technology teams beyond product - Epic analysts, engineers, data scientists - focused on driving success in CVS HCD admissions prevention efforts.
• Foster a team culture grounded in curiosity, resilience, problem-solving, and joy, maintaining high engagement even during complex, high-pressure execution cycles.

Qualifications & Key Competencies

• Executive Presence: Proven ability to communicate, influence, and build trust with senior executive stakeholders and frontline team members alike.
• Epic & Healthcare Tech Expertise: Hands‑on experience with Epic EHR workflows, module configurations, and translating operational requirements into Epic build. Understanding of how external health data enriches EHR clinical workflows.
• Healthcare Operations & Domain Knowledge: Deep familiarity with clinical operations, Quality Improvement (QI) methodologies, Value-Based Care (VBC) constructs, and Fee-For-Service (FFS) operational dynamics, and medical cost initiative care pathways.
• Product & Technical Leadership: Track record of leading cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑scale technology backed clinical interventions.
• Problem-Solving & Accountability: Exceptional analytical rigor; ability to frame ambiguous clinical challenges into structured problem statements. The ability to hold themselves and teams highly accountable for execution and towards measurable outcomes.
• People Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead with empathy, optimism, and rigor, building high-trust teams that excel under pressure.

Required Experience & Education

• Education: Bachelor's degree required; Graduate degree and/or clinical background preferred (RN, MD, DO, NP, PA)
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive leadership experience spanning healthcare operations, clinical technology product management, and enterprise EHR implementation (specifically Epic).
• Track Record: Proven history of partnering with primary care delivery networks, retail clinics, and/or value-based care organizations to improve medical cost trends and clinical care pathways.

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.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/30/2026

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