CVS Health is committed to building a world of health around every individual, and they are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of a value stream within the DDAT G&A product team. This role involves defining product strategy, collaborating across teams, and ensuring that solutions drive meaningful outcomes for members and providers.
Responsibilities:
- Drive Product Strategy & Outcomes
- Define the strategy, outcomes, and roadmap for your value stream aligned to the G&A vision
- Translate complex business and customer problems into clear, value-driven priorities
- Partner with engineering, design, business, and data to deliver meaningful product solutions
- Ensure work is tied to measurable value (customer outcomes, business impact, operational efficiency)
- Continuously evaluate where to invest, pivot, or stop based on data, discovery, and results
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational workflows, business strategy, and key use cases, and use that context to inform product decisions
- Ensure alignment between your value stream and broader G&A strategy, connecting work to end-to-end outcomes and enterprise value
- Deliver Through Influence
- Work across multiple teams and backlogs to ensure the right work happens, even when you don’t own all the pieces
- Identify dependencies, surface tradeoffs, and drive decisions to keep progress moving
- Drive cross-functional decision-making and alignment on strategy, priorities, and execution across business, operational, and technical partners and stakeholders
- Engage leadership and stakeholders to gather feedback and evolve strategy and roadmap over time
- Drive Discovery and Product Thinking
- Lead ongoing product discovery to understand member, provider and business needs
- Evaluate current product state using customer feedback, product analysis, data, and stakeholder input
- Incorporate market, industry, and competitive insights to inform product direction
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights across research and data to shape product direction, validate decisions, and refine prioritization
- Develop and communicate discovery readouts that synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights, including research, product data, and market context, to inform stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and leadership
- Model and reinforce a product mindset across teams, helping drive change and evolve how product is practiced within G&A and across Aetna
Requirements:
- 7+ years required experience in software product management, with demonstrated success in leading large-scale enterprise products/capabilities
- 5+ years' experience facilitating cross-functional teams, including engineering, architecture and UX supporting or leading product transformation efforts
- 3+ years' experience working in an agile environment and leading decentralized teams
- 1+ years of mentoring and coaching colleagues
- Ability to travel up to 1–4 times per year
- Experience owning and evolving product strategy in complex environments
- Strong product judgment with the ability to prioritize based on value and make balanced, insightful decisions considering both product and business impact
- Ability to quickly understand product, operational, market, and business contexts
- Skilled at influencing, aligning, and driving decisions across teams, partners, and stakeholders
- Ability to work across teams and systems without direct ownership
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and leading through change
- Experience with product discovery and outcome-driven development
- Clear, concise communicator who can tailor messaging based on audience
- Experience influencing ways of working and coaching others in product practices
- Comfortable leading team discussions, facilitating alignment, and driving decisions
- Strong negotiation, organizational, management, analytical, and people skills
- Able to clearly communicate how product strategy connects to portfolio and business goals, and how it translates into execution
- Self-starter who proactively jumps in to support the team where needed
- Creates an inclusive and psychologically safe environment where individuals can bring their full selves to work
- Experience in healthcare and/or health insurance industry
- Prior experience with claims or appeals systems or processing
- Experience with AI tools: MS Copilot, Claude
- Technology acumen
- Data-driven decision making and quantitative analysis skills
- Strong understanding of engineering and software development concepts and practices
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to make informed decisions in high-pressure environments
- Passion for improving consumer experiences