Oscar Health
Senior Director, Insurance Product Innovation & Emerging Solutions
Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Senior Director, Insurance Product Innovation & Emerging Solutions to join our Insurance Product Development team.
Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family.
About the role:
Lead the strategy for next-generation lifestyle-focused health solutions. These solutions include employer-subsidized, multicultural, disease-specific, and strategic partnership-focused products, such as those with provider, retail, and non-traditional channel-based partnerships.
You will be both a hands-on strategic product leader and people leader, accountable for building a high-performing team while directly leading product strategy and delivery. Translate enterprise priorities into scalable, market-ready health solutions that increase growth, retention, and long-term portfolio difference.
You will report into the Vice President, Insurance Product Innovation and Development.
Work Location: This is a remote / work-from-home role. You must reside in one of the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, or Virginia. Note, this list of states is subject to change. #LI-Remote
Pay Transparency: The base pay for this role in the states of California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Washington is: $198,720- $260,820 per year. The base pay for this role in all other locations is:: $178,848- $234,738 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program company equity grants and annual performance bonuses.
Responsibilities:
- Insurance Product & Portfolio Innovation Strategies
- Define and lead the multi-year strategy for new lifestyle product solutions, including employer-subsidized, multicultural, disease specific, and ancillary offerings
- Set priorities, investment focus, and roadmap (e.g., consumer journey, partnerships, etc.) across the product portfolio
- Be the senior product owner, directly shaping programs
- Build a team of product manager and strategists
- Set clear goals, operating rhythm, and accountable for delivery and outcomes
- Coach team members to operate as end-to-end product owners, not task executors
- Establish a culture grounded in data analysis, ownership, urgency, and execution focus
- Lead development of culturally aligned and linguistically tailored health solutions
- Promote disease-specific product development, integrating clinical, network, and journey mapping leading to improved health outcomes for our members
- Ensure health solutions and lifestyle products are scalable, compliant, and with care for community and market specific needs
- Partner with product design, execution and intelligence teams to ensure products are fileable and operationally ready
- Lead across product, actuarial, markets, network, growth, and strategy teams to implement
- Promote agreement on priorities, trade-offs, and timelines to create winning products
- Deliver clear, executive-level recommendations, influencing important decisions; while staying close to the work, stepping in where needed to accelerate quality outcomes
- Oversee performance outcomes across growth, retention, affordability, and margin in partnership with market and corporate leadership (e.g., finance, actuarial, network)
- Make decisions to refine or sunset products, based on market portfolios
- Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- 12+ years experience in health insurance, product strategy (ACA, QHP focused), and insurance product development
- 6+ years people leadership experience managing multi-level teams
- Expertise in ACA individual and small group QHP markets
- Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end product strategy and lifecycle execution
- Experience launching new insurance products, partnerships, or market expansion.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.
Bonus points:
- MBA, MHA, or other advanced degree
- Experience with employer-subsidized (e.g., small group, mid-group), ACA, and other non-traditional health insurance models
- Experience developing multicultural, population specific, or disease-specific health insurance products
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At Oscar, being an Equal Opportunity Employer means more than upholding discrimination-free hiring practices. It means that we cultivate an environment where people can be their most authentic selves and find both belonging and support. We're on a mission to change health care -- an experience made whole by our unique backgrounds and perspectives.
Pay Transparency: Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, and experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life and disability insurance, and paid wellness time and reimbursements.
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