Lead Director, Payor-Focused Product Innovation

Stryker Corporation; Boise (ID); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

CVS Health seeks a Lead Director, Product Innovation to guide the full lifecycle of payor-focused concepts from ideation through launch. You will identify unmet market needs, shape concepts, and drive launch readiness in partnership with Enterprise and Aetna strategy teams, product development, and shared services.

This role is an individual contributor position with remote or hybrid flexibility across the United States, focusing on translating ideas into market-ready solutions and ensuring

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product strategy, product innovation, or related leadership roles.
• Strong experience in payor-focused products, healthcare solutions, or related market segments.
• Proven ability to lead new concepts from ideation through launch.
• Experience working across strategy, product development, partnerships, data/technology, and shared service teams in a matrixed environment.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of new product concepts from ideation through launch for payor-focused solutions and capabilities.
• Identify unmet needs, strategic opportunities, and concept areas aligned to enterprise and business priorities.
• Shape, pressure-test, and refine product concepts into well-defined opportunities with clear value propositions and launch pathways.
• Partner with Enterprise and Aetna strategy teams to ensure innovation priorities align to broader business strategy and market opportunity.
• Work closely with product development teams to support concept evaluation, development planning, implementation readiness, and launch execution.
• Collaborate with product strategic partnerships, DDAT, and other shared service partners based on the type of concept being developed.
• Drive cross-functional coordination needed to move concepts from early exploration into launch-ready solutions.
• Define requirements, priorities, dependencies, and decision points needed to advance innovation efforts across teams.
• Support creation of business cases, concept materials, leadership presentations, and launch recommendations tied to new product ideas.
• Ensure clear transition and handoff of launched innovations to the appropriate long-term owner after market introduction.

Skills

Product strategy

Product innovation

Leadership

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Influence without ownership

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CVS Health seeks a Lead Director, Product Innovation to guide the full lifecycle of payor-focused concepts from ideation through launch. You will identify unmet market needs, shape concepts, and drive launch readiness in partnership with Enterprise and Aetna strategy teams, product development, and shared services.

This role is an individual contributor position with remote or hybrid flexibility across the United States, focusing on translating ideas into market-ready solutions and ensuring