Director, Product Innovation

About 1upHealth

At 1upHealth, we’re on a mission to unlock health data and empower the future of healthcare through modern, cloud-native data infrastructure and interoperability. We build a platform that enables payers, providers, and digital health companies to ingest, normalize, and exchange clinical and claims data at scale; securely, reliably, and with strong compliance foundations. We are a remote-first U.S. company with a culture focused on collaboration, transparency, and meaningful impact.

1upHealth is building on its FHIR-native roots in interoperability compliance and investing significantly in the payer data and analytics space. We're looking for a seasoned healthcare product leader to identify the biggest opportunities in that market and spearhead our next wave of growth.

Operating in a general manager-like capacity for this new business, this role’s success will be measured by financial targets, not just delivering on the roadmap. This is a high-visibility role: you'll shape strategy alongside the CPTO and CEO. Payer data experience is a must, and expertise supporting quality programs such as HEDIS and Stars is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own product vision, strategy, and roadmap for 1up's innovation products, reporting to the Chief Product & Technology Officer

• Own business outcomes and financial success for innovation products, including revenue, profitability, adoption, and retention targets

• Identify and validate new payer analytics opportunities through customer discovery, market research, and competitive analysis

• Translate payer business problems (quality, risk adjustment, utilization, cost of care, member engagement, network management, VBC arrangements) into differentiated product capabilities

• Lead concept development, prototyping, and pilot programs with design partners and early customers

• Define success metrics and business cases for new initiatives, and make clear build/partner/kill recommendations

• Partner with Engineering and Data teams on analytics architecture, data models, and feasibility of emerging approaches, including AI/ML

• Lead commercial enablement for innovation products, equipping Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing with positioning, pricing, packaging, sales tools, and training

• Evangelize 1up's new products externally as the product's public face, presenting at industry conferences, webinars, and customer events, and serving as a subject-matter expert with customers, partners, and analysts

• Track regulatory and market shifts, e.g., value-based care, Stars/HEDIS, and turn them into product opportunities

Relevant Experience

• 8+ years in product management, with 3+ years leading products in payer analytics or health plan data

• Deep familiarity with payer data (claims, clinical, eligibility, pharmacy) and use cases such as HEDIS/Stars, risk adjustment, and population health

• Track record of taking new products from concept to market adoption

• Demonstrated ownership of commercial results (revenue, P&L, or business-line targets) for a product or portfolio

• Working knowledge of healthcare data standards and interoperability (FHIR, HL7, X12) and related CMS regulations

• Comfortable with analytics tooling and data concepts; able to engage credibly with data scientists and engineers

• Experience selling to or working inside health plans; an established payer network is a plus

• Strong executive communication and customer-facing presence; a confident public speaker comfortable presenting at industry events

Don't meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At 1upHealth we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. We encourage folks to apply if they meet at least 50% of the qualifications above.

Benefits

100% Paid BCBS Medical and Dental Insurance for Employees

Vision Insurance

Flexible PTO

Equity for All Employees

401(k)

Home Office Stipend

Lifestyle Spending Account

Parental Leave (6 weeks bonding leave for all new parents + 10 weeks for birthing parents)

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