Vice President, Product

ParetoHealth; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid medical, dental, and vision

Flexible PTO

401k company contribution

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development allowance

Transportation allowance and parking

Engaging hybrid work environment

Job summary

ParetoHealth is seeking a VP of Product to lead a major evolution of its platform and product strategy. This executive will align technology, data, and business goals, recruit and grow the product organization, and build scalable operating models to accelerate growth across underwriting, customer experience, and analytics products.

The VP will partner with senior leadership to define market opportunities, drive investment decisions, and simplify complex workflows for customers and internal teams

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience with significant leadership responsibility.
• Experience leading product managers and product management leaders.
• Track record of building and scaling product management organizations.
• Experience creating operating models, planning processes, and defining organizational structure.
• Strong strategic thinking combined with practical execution capability.
• Ability to influence across functions in complex organizations.
• Familiarity with fast-moving startup environments.
• Experience with enterprise software, healthcare, insurance, fintech, or other complex regulated industries is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the product organization across underwriting, customer experience, and data & analytics.
• Build a scalable product operating system for planning, prioritization, roadmap management, and reviews.
• Shape product strategy and investment decisions with executive leadership.
• Improve customer and internal experiences by simplifying workflows and ensuring measurable value.
• Partner with Analytics and Engineering to improve execution velocity and delivery quality.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and maintain a data-driven, outcomes-focused product discipline.

Skills

Leadership

Product management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional influence

Startup environment

Enterprise software familiarity

Job description

ParetoHealth is redefining the way employers fund healthcare. As the largest and fastest-growing benefits captive in the United States, we help thousands of small and midsize employers take control of healthcare costs through a smarter, more sustainable model.

Our mission is simple: give small and midsize employers the scale and protection they need to eliminate volatility and lower healthcare costs.

By combining data-driven insights, innovative risk management, and the collective purchasing power of our community, we enable employers to reduce volatility, improve long-term outcomes, and reinvest savings into their businesses and their people.

Headquartered in Philadelphia, ParetoHealth is growing rapidly and transforming one of the country's largest industries. Our success is fueled by talented people who are united by our four core values: Fire in the Belly, For the Greater Good, See the Field, and Get It Done Right. These values shape how we innovate, collaborate, make decisions, and deliver exceptional results for our clients and one another.

If you're energized by solving complex challenges, thrive in a high-growth environment, and want to help reshape the future of healthcare, we'd love to meet you.

Please note that ParetoHealth does not provide employment visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship both now or in the future.

About ParetoHealth

ParetoHealth is redefining the way employers fund healthcare. As the largest and fastest-growing benefits captive in the United States, we help thousands of small and midsize employers take control of healthcare costs through a smarter, more sustainable model.

Our mission is simple: give small and midsize employers the scale and protection they need to eliminate volatility and lower healthcare costs.

By combining data-driven insights, innovative risk management, and the collective purchasing power of our community, we enable employers to reduce volatility, improve long-term outcomes, and reinvest savings into their businesses and their people.

Headquartered in Philadelphia, ParetoHealth is growing rapidly and transforming one of the country's largest industries. Our success is fueled by talented people who are united by our four core values: Fire in the Belly, For the Greater Good, See the Field, and Get It Done Right. These values shape how we innovate, collaborate, make decisions, and deliver exceptional results for our clients and one another.

If you're energized by solving complex challenges, thrive in a high-growth environment, and want to help reshape the future of healthcare, we'd love to meet you.

Please note that ParetoHealth does not provide employment visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship both now or in the future.

Position Summary:

ParetoHealth helps employers control one of their largest and fastest-growing expenses: healthcare. Our platform brings together risk management, cost containment, data, analytics, technology, and a diverse partner ecosystem to lower costs, improve outcomes, and create greater predictability. Our next opportunity is to transform these products, capabilities, and workflows into a simpler, more unified, and differentiated platform experience.

We are seeking a VP of Product to lead this evolution. This leader will shape product strategy, strengthen how technology and data drive the business, and build the talent, systems, and operating model required to scale. Key opportunities include simplifying how customers buy, implement, and operate self-funded health plans; advancing automated, data-driven underwriting; turning healthcare data into actionable intelligence; and identifying the next generation of products that improve customer outcomes and company performance.

The VP will inherit an experienced product organization spanning Underwriting, Customer Experience, and Data & Analytics products. This is an opportunity to strengthen and scale an established team—developing its leaders, clarifying operating models, and improving cross-functional execution—while helping define how ParetoHealth creates value for customers over the next decade.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and Scale the Product Organization

• Provide leadership across product management teams spanning underwriting, customer experience, and data and analytics products.
• Develop product leaders and create clear career paths, expectations, and accountability.
• Evaluate organizational structure and make recommendations regarding team design, ownership, and future growth.
• Build a high-performance culture focused on outcomes, customer value, and execution excellence.

Build the Product Operating System

• Establish scalable operating models for planning, prioritization, roadmap management, execution, stakeholder engagement, and product reviews.
• Create frameworks for business cases, investment decisions, product quality, and success measurement.
• Improve collaboration across Product, Engineering, Analytics, Operations, Commercial, Finance, and other key functions.
• Increase transparency, predictability, and consistency across the product development process.

Shape Product Strategy and Investment Decisions

• Partner with executive leadership to define the future direction of Pareto's platform.
• Develop informed points of view on market opportunities, customer needs, and strategic investments.
• Lead and support business case development for major initiatives and product investments.Help drive build-versus-buy decisions and portfolio prioritization.

Improve Customer and Internal Experiences

• Drive improvements across the experiences that matter most to customers, consultants, and internal teams.
• Simplify complex workflows related to implementation, reporting, decision support, renewals, and ongoing account management.
• Ensure product investments create measurable value for customers and the business.

Partner with Analytics and Engineering to Deliver Results

• Partner closely with Analytics and Engineering leadership to improve execution velocity and delivery quality.
• Ensure product management teams are focused on the highest-value opportunities.
• Create alignment between strategic priorities and delivery plans.

What Success Looks Like:

• Product management teams operate with greater clarity, accountability, and consistency.
• Product strategy and investment decisions become more structured and data-driven.
• Cross-functional planning and execution improve across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Commercial teams.
• Underwriting capabilities become increasingly automated and scalable.
• Customers and consultants experience simpler implementation, renewals, reporting, and decision-making workflows.
• Analytics products become a more meaningful driver of customer value and differentiation.
• Pareto establishes a clearer vision for the future evolution of its platform.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 10+ years of product management experience with significant leadership and management responsibility.
• Experience leading product managers and product management leaders.
• Track record of building and scaling product management organizations.
• Experience creating operating models, planning processes, and defining and iterating on organizational structure.
• Strong strategic thinking combined with practical execution capability.
• Ability to influence across functions and operate effectively in complex organizations.
• Familiarity with fast-moving, startup environments.
• Experience with enterprise software, operational systems, healthcare, insurance, fintech, or other complex regulated industries is preferred.

Leadership Attributes:

• Builds systems rather than relying on heroics.
• Develops people and creates organizational leverage.
• Simplifies complexity and creates clarity.
• Balances strategy with execution.
• Exercises strong judgment under ambiguity.
• Comfortable making tradeoffs and prioritization decisions.
• Collaborative, low-ego, and highly effective across functions.
• Demonstrates effective people management and coaching/development skills.

Perks & Benefits:

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible PTO
• 401k company contribution
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development allowance
• Transportation allowance and daily parking reimbursement
• Engaging hybrid work environment

We are guided by our values:

Fire in the Belly

The drive to learn, to improve, and to deliver outstanding value everyday.

See the field

The ability to see the big picture and prepare to meet tomorrow'sneeds.

Get it done right

The passion to produce at higher rates and to the higheststandards.

For the greater good

A united community creating better health benefit solutions forall.

Disclosures:

ParetoHealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and firing of staff, selection of volunteers and vendors, and provision of services. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients.

California Applicants:

See Pareto's CCPA Notice of Collection for California Employees and Applicants for information about how Pareto Captive Services, LLC, Pareto Health, LLC, and Pareto Underwriting Partners, LLC, together with their respective subsidiaries (collectively, 'Pareto') collects and uses personal information submitted by employment applicants.