Head of Product, Healthcare

Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers.

We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

The Innovation & AI Product Incubation Lead transforms strategic opportunities into validated Innovation & AI solutions through discovery, experimentation, prototyping, and pilot execution. The role partners closely with Innovation & AI Product Strategy, Innovation Engineering, Product Families, UX, Architecture, and Engineering to reduce delivery risk before future investment into productizing the solution. It is a highly collaborative, inward-facing product leadership role focused on building the right solution, validating assumptions quickly, and ensuring Product Engineering receives well-defined, execution-ready initiatives.

This role leads discovery, validates customer and business assumptions, prototypes solutions, and prepares initiatives for successful transition into Product Engineering.

A repeatable discovery-to-prototype process that consistently surfaces whether an idea is worth building, fast

POC & Prototypes that produce a clear, data-backed answer on whether to scale, pause, or sunset

Define data requirements

Manage Innovation & AI risks

Partner with UX

Recommend readiness for transition into Product Engineering based on validated customer, technical, and business outcomes

Bachelor's Degree Required and Master's Degree Preferred.

UX research experience.

Clear indication of progressive responsibilities including a track record of managing complex issues, preferably in a dynamic, high-pressure culture demanding high-quality thinking and output.

Superior team skills with proven ability to collaborate successfully with all organizational functions and levels with emphasis on building strong, productive relationships.

Ability to influence and partner with internal and external customers.

Experience working with academic products and academic leaders a plus.

Experience building MVPs.

Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance

• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays For more information related to our benefits please visit: You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation