Senior Director, Product Management - Health Plans

We are seeking a Sr. Director, Product Management — Health Plans to lead product strategy, business discovery, and requirements development for complex health plan and benefits-product initiatives. 

This role will serve as a senior partner to clients, business leaders, and cross-functional product teams, translating healthcare, regulatory, and client needs into clear business outcomes and actionable requirements. The Sr. Director will lead the Health Plans Product function, establish effective operating practices, and ensure that initiatives are well defined, appropriately prioritized, and aligned with broader business and member-experience goals. 

The Sr. Director will remain engaged throughout the product lifecycle, providing business context, maintaining alignment with approved outcomes, and supporting launch readiness and post-launch evaluation.  

What you’ll do… 

• Lead the Health Plans Product function, including its strategy, operating model, priorities, and ways of working.  

• Identify patterns across complex client, market, and regulatory needs and partner with product leadership to inform effective, sustainable solutions.  

• Serve as a senior product-strategy partner for health plan, regulatory, and benefits-product opportunities.  

• Evaluate and prioritize opportunities based on business value, client needs, regulatory considerations, feasibility, and organizational priorities.  

• Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to team members responsible for discovery and business requirements.  

• Communicate recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies to product and executive leadership.  

• Lead discovery for complex health plan and benefits-product initiatives.  

• Partner with clients and internal stakeholders to define business problems, desired outcomes, scope, priorities, constraints, and measures of success.  

• Translate regulatory, contractual, operational, and client needs into clear, validated, and testable business requirements.  

• Define business rules and business-level acceptance criteria.  

• Ensure requirements are complete, aligned, and traceable before transitioning to product and technology teams.  

• Distinguish business needs and desired outcomes from product, technical, and operational solutions.  

• Establish effective practices for intake, discovery, prioritization, requirements management, stakeholder approval, traceability, and change control.  

• Build trusted relationships with health plan executives, benefits leaders, operations leaders, legal and compliance partners, and internal business sponsors.  

• Lead executive-level discovery and decision-making for high-priority or complex initiatives.  

• Facilitate alignment across stakeholders with differing goals, constraints, and responsibilities.  

• Resolve or escalate material issues related to scope, ownership, prioritization, and commitments.  

• Partner with cross-functional leaders to identify the appropriate product, technology, operational, legal, and compliance stakeholders for each initiative.   

• Partner with product and technology teams to ensure approved business requirements are translated into well-defined product solutions and successfully delivered.  

• Provide business context and clarification throughout product definition, technical discovery, development, testing, and launch.  

• Maintain oversight of business outcomes after requirements transition to downstream teams while preserving clear ownership across functions.  

• Ensure material product and technical decisions remain aligned with approved business goals and requirements.  

• Govern changes to business requirements and assess their impact on scope, timing, client commitments, and intended outcomes.  

• Surface cross-product dependencies, risks, and portfolio conflicts to the appropriate leaders.  

• Support executive launch-readiness reviews from a business and client-outcomes perspective.  

• Partner with product, operations, client services, and other stakeholders to define appropriate measures of success.  

• Monitor post-launch performance and determine whether findings require a requirements change, product enhancement, operational remediation, or further leadership review.  

• Maintain traceability between the original business need, approved requirements, delivered solution, and post-launch outcomes.  

• Use market, client, operational, and performance insights to inform future product decisions. 

About you… 

• 10+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, healthcare solutions, business requirements, benefits administration, or a related field.  

• Significant experience leading product, product strategy, discovery, or requirements teams in healthcare, benefits, or another regulated industry.  

• Demonstrated success working with complex healthcare organizations, benefits stakeholders, or regulated-industry clients.  

• Experience leading senior client relationships and complex cross-functional decision-making.  

• Strong understanding of health plan or benefits-related capabilities, which may include benefit design, eligibility, enrollment, claims or benefit administration, member communications, reporting, data exchange, and operations.  

• Experience translating regulatory, contractual, operational, and client needs into clear business outcomes and requirements.  

• Strong knowledge of product discovery, requirements governance, traceability, scope management, prioritization, and change control.  

• Demonstrated ability to separate business needs and outcomes from product and technical solutions.  

• Proven ability to communicate effectively with executive, client, product, technology, operational, legal, and compliance audiences.  

• Experience building or improving product strategy, intake, discovery, or business-requirements practices.  

• Strong people-leadership skills, including the ability to develop talent, establish accountability, and lead through influence.  

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience. 

Nice to have...

• Experience with regulated health plan or benefits products.  

• Experience supporting large, complex, or highly regulated benefit programs.  

• Experience working across multiple clients, markets, or regulatory environments.  

• Experience identifying patterns across business needs and informing sustainable product solutions.  

• Experience leading initiatives that span product, technology, operations, legal, compliance, and client-facing teams. 

Please note: This is not a digital nomad or remote international position; candidates must be based in the United States. Progyny is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in United States without the need for sponsorship, now or in the future.  

About Progyny:   

Progyny (Nasdaq: PGNY) is a global leader in women’s health and family building solutions, trusted by the nation’s leading employers, health plans and benefit purchasers. We envision a world where everyone can realize dreams of family and ideal health. Our outcomes prove that comprehensive, inclusive and intentionally designed solutions simultaneously benefit employers, patients and physicians. 

Our benefits solution empowers patients with concierge support, coaching, education, and digital tools; provides access to a premier network of fertility and women's health specialists who use the latest science and technologies; drives optimal clinical outcomes; and reduces healthcare costs.  

Our mission is to empower healthier, supported journeys through transformative fertility, family building and women’s health benefits.  

Headquartered in New York City, Progyny has been recognized for its leadership and growth as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, CNBC Disruptor 50, Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, Forbes' Best Employers, Financial Times Fastest Growing Companies, Inc. 5000, Inc. Power Partners, and Crain's Fast 50 for NYC. For more information, visit www.progyny.com. 

Our perks:  

• Family friendly benefits: Paid family and parental leave, preconception, fertility and family building benefits (including egg freezing, IVF, and adoption support), family and pet care fund, and Parents’ Employee Affiliation Group 

• Menopause and midlife care

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance options for employees and family  

• Free in-person, virtual and text-based mental health and wellness support  

• Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, personal days and summer flex time  

• Company equity  

• Bonus program  

• 401(k) plan with company match

• Access to on-demand legal and financial advice   

• Learning and development programs to help you grow professionally and a mentorship program

• Company social events to include annual volunteer day and donation matching

• Flex days (3 days a week in the office) and onsite meals and snacks for employees reporting into our NY office 

In compliance with New York City's Wage Transparency Law, the annual salary [wage] range for NYC-based applicants is: $180,000 - $200,000. There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. Progyny offers a total compensation package comprised of base salary, cash bonus, and equity.   

Progyny is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, status as a protected veteran, criminal history consistent with legal requirements or any other basis protected by law. 

If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance or an accommodation during the recruiting process, please send an e-mail to apply@progyny.com. 

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