[Hiring] Director, Product @Availity

Role Description

We are seeking a visionary, entrepreneurial product leader to identify, incubate, and scale new growth opportunities. The Director, Product - Emerging Solutions & Innovation will operate at the intersection of customer needs, data, artificial intelligence, healthcare technology, and platform innovation to create differentiated products and new sources of value.

This role is accountable for taking products from 0-to-1:

• Discovering high-value problems
• Forming investment hypotheses
• Rapidly prototyping solutions
• Launching pilots
• Validating product-market fit
• Transitioning successful concepts into scalable products and sustainable business lines

The ideal candidate combines strategic product leadership with a hands-on builder mindset. They must be comfortable navigating ambiguity, making evidence-based investment decisions, and mobilizing cross-functional teams to convert emerging technologies and white-space opportunities into measurable customer and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive product management experience, including significant leadership responsibility for product strategy, discovery, delivery, and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success creating and launching one or more 0-to-1 products, with direct ownership from opportunity identification through validation and commercialization.
• Experience developing data products, AI-enabled products, analytics solutions, intelligent automation, or technology platforms.
• Hands-on experience with rapid prototyping, MVP development, customer pilots, design-partner programs, and iterative validation.
• Ability to translate uncertain opportunities into structured hypotheses, experiments, product decisions, and investment recommendations.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including business-case development, market sizing, pricing, packaging, monetization, and go-to-market planning.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and influence senior executives, technical leaders, customers, and commercial stakeholders.
• Excellent written, verbal, storytelling, and executive communication skills, with the ability to make complex concepts clear and actionable.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing product management talent.

Requirements

• Define compelling opportunity narratives, product theses, and value propositions grounded in customer evidence, market attractiveness, strategic fit, and differentiated advantage.
• Build investment cases that clearly articulate the problem, target customer, addressable opportunity, solution hypothesis, expected value, key assumptions, risks, and funding requirements.
• Maintain an innovation portfolio that balances near-term experiments with longer-term strategic bets.
• Own the complete incubation lifecycle from concept and discovery through prototype, MVP, pilot, product-market fit validation, commercialization, and scale transition.
• Define product strategies for AI-enabled, data-driven, analytics, automation, and platform capabilities.
• Champion rapid prototyping using modern design, low-code, AI-assisted, and engineering approaches.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Operations, and Legal to define market positioning, target segments, pricing, packaging, launch readiness, and go-to-market plans.
• Set the vision, strategic narrative, objectives, and multi-quarter roadmap for the emerging product portfolio.
• Create shared direction across Product, Engineering, UX, Data, Architecture, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Legal, Security, and executive leadership.
• Lead, coach, and develop product managers responsible for emerging products.

Benefits

• Collaborative and open culture where communication and engagement are central to success.
• Remote-first company with camera/video capability to simulate the office environment.
• Enhanced security and protection of sensitive company information through video participation.

Measures of Success

• Quality and strategic relevance of the innovation pipeline and clarity of portfolio investment decisions.
• Speed from opportunity identification to prototype, pilot, validated learning, and market launch.
• Percentage of critical assumptions tested before significant investment and quality of stage-gate evidence.
• Pilot conversion, product adoption, customer value realization, revenue or efficiency impact, and progress toward product-market fit.
• Effectiveness of cross-functional alignment, executive decision-making, and transition of successful products into scalable ownership.
• Growth, engagement, and innovation capability of the product team.

What Success Looks Like in the First 12 Months

• Establish a clear emerging-products strategy, opportunity thesis, prioritization model, and incubation operating cadence.
• Build a qualified portfolio of high-value AI, data, and platform opportunities supported by customer and market evidence.
• Advance priority concepts through rapid prototypes and design-partner validation.
• Launch one or more pilots with defined learning goals, operational readiness, success metrics, and commercialization pathways.
• Create strong executive visibility into portfolio health, investment needs, risks, learning, and expected business value.
• Raise organizational capability in 0-to-1 product development through coaching, reusable practices, and disciplined experimentation.

Eligibility

Video Camera Usage: Availity fosters a collaborative and open culture where communication and engagement are central to our success. As a remote-first company, we are also camera-first and provide all associates with camera/video capability to simulate the office environment. If you are not able to use your camera for all virtual meetings, you should not apply for this role.

Having cameras on helps create a more connected, interactive, and productive environment, allowing teams to communicate more effectively and build stronger working relationships. The usage of cameras also enhances security and protects sensitive company information.