Lead Product Manager

Placement Type:


Temporary

Salary:


$70-80 Hourly

Start Date:


Aug 3, 2026

Partner with Aquent to join a leading organization at the forefront of healthcare innovation. This enterprise is dedicated to leveraging advanced analytics and consulting to create groundbreaking product applications, ultimately improving health plans and delivering higher quality care for better value. This is a chance to make a tangible difference in people's lives by shaping the future of health services.


Are you a visionary product leader ready to drive significant change and impact? We are seeking a dynamic individual to take the helm as a Lead Product Manager for a critical digital application. This is an incredible opportunity to bridge the gap between cutting-edge development teams, senior leadership, and end-users, directly influencing how health services are tailored and delivered. Your expertise will be pivotal in evolving an existing application, ensuring it meets diverse needs and achieves measurable success, all while fostering collaboration and innovation. You will be instrumental in expanding this digital application, tailoring it to new user segments with unique requirements and success metrics, and directly contributing to the organization's success and the improvement of health outcomes for countless individuals.


What You Will Do

• Manage senior-level stakeholders to gain buy-in, define success metrics, align on objectives and key results (OKRs), and ensure a product roadmap and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) are prioritized to deliver intended outcomes.
• Lead an outcomes-based product model, rooted in user research and validation, ensuring high levels of engagement and collaboration from the user base.
• Craft and manage comprehensive roadmaps, coordinating strategies across the product platform with clear linkage to the product portfolio and organizational goals.
• Manage a full-stack development squad, including backlog prioritization and participation in Agile ceremonies.
• Collaborate with development captains (Data Science and Engineering) to translate product strategy into detailed specifications, making functional and user interface design tradeoffs where necessary.
• Oversee the rollout and launch of the application, including testing, training, and communications.
• Monitor and share product performance post-launch, along with proposed engagement tactics and continued development to increase adoption, utilization, financial impact, and efficiency.
• Interface directly with users to gather feedback, understand needs, build trust, and resolve utilization issues or challenges.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience in a dynamic product management role.
• Experience working in an Agile framework.
• Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle.
• High effectiveness in managing cross-functional teams.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Experience with a similar platform to manage project workflows.
• Excellent communication and storytelling abilities (written & verbal) with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Empathetic approach to customers and stakeholders, exhibiting high emotional intelligence.
• Ability to work with a large number of teams to achieve the product vision.
• Comfortable influencing others, leading teams, and managing senior-level stakeholders.
• Focus on innovation and thoughtful inclusion of AI.
• Analytical mindset, with strong attention to detail and ability to synthesize data from multiple sources to identify key unmet needs and solutions.
• Commitment to understanding user needs and experiences, with a focus on delivering value through the application.
• Experience working with Jira, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• 10+ years of work experience.
• Experience in a related industry such as Insurance, Healthcare, Retail, or Tech.
• General data analysis experience (e.g., SQL, Python).

About Aquent Talent:


Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.


Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!


Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.


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Client Description


Our Client:

• Makes it their mission to guide people toward better health
• Is considered by Fast Company to be amongst the most innovative companies
• Is listed by Forbes as one of the world's most admired companies
• This includes altering the products they offer at retail to more health-conscious offerings!

Our client has recently made a move toward a major merger, which means this is a great time to get involved! Two big industry brands coming together.


Working here gets you into a fast-paced environment, with tons of cross-functional working relationships. You'd have exposure to a number of teams related to any project you're working on, and we sometimes see freelancers convert to permanent employees on teams they've had the opportunity to interact with. This is definitely a standout opportunity!


WHY YOU WANT TO WORK THROUGH AQUENT:


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Working with AQUENT gets you access to some pretty cool things, including:

• Subsidized health, vision and dental benefits
• Access to Fidelity 401(k) and FSA Program
• Direct deposit for your weekly paycheck
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