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About the Role

The Innovation & AI Product Incubation Lead transforms strategic opportunities into validated Innovation & AI solutions through discovery, experimentation, prototyping, and pilot execution. This leader owns the end-to-end incubation process, partnering closely with various teams to reduce delivery risk before future investment into productizing the solution. The role is focused on building the right solution, validating assumptions quickly, and ensuring Product Engineering receives well-defined, execution-ready initiatives.

Responsibilities

Conduct user research
Define product vision
Validate user problems
Validate opportunities identified through Innovation & AI Product Strategy
Lead design thinking workshops
Build product hypotheses
Validate desirability, feasibility, and viability
Define an experimentation strategy to determine the Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) needed to validate business value
Partner with Innovation & AI engineers
Define Innovation & AI use cases
Evaluate Innovation & AI capabilities
Define data requirements
Assess technical feasibility
Manage Innovation & AI risks
Create PRDs
Prioritize discovery activities, prototypes, and poc learning
Define user stories
Establish success metrics
Partner with UX
Drive iterative learning
Define pilot strategy
Lead pilot execution
Measure adoption
Validate business outcomes
Refine based on learning
Recommend readiness for transition into Product Engineering based on validated customer, technical, and business outcomes
Partner with Product Families
Support engineering execution
Ensure knowledge transfer
Remain engaged through delivery
Support enterprise rollout
Continue partnering through delivery to protect validated assumptions and intended business outcomes

Requirements

Ten (10) plus years of professional experience, preferably with supervisory experience
Experience leading Innvoation & AI Products
Track record of leading successful teams that generate consistent revenue growth, implementing programs and developing competitive response campaigns
Requires critical thinking and problem solving skills, strong teamwork, negotiation and delegation capabilities
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
Must possess excellent problem solving and strategic thinking abilities
Ability to influence and partner with internal and external customers
Must possess excellent written and verbal communications skills
Experience building MVPs

Skills

Innovation & AI
Product Incubation
Discovery
Experimentation
Prototyping
Pilot Execution
User Research
Product Vision
Design Thinking
Product Hypotheses
Experimentation Strategy
Minimum Marketable Product (MMP)
Innovation & AI Use Cases
Data Requirements
Technical Feasibility Assessment
Risk Management
Product Requirements Documents (PRDs)
User Stories
Success Metrics Definition
Iterative Learning
Pilot Strategy
Business Outcomes Validation
Product Engineering Transition
Enterprise Rollout Support

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Ten (10) plus years of professional experience
Supervisory experience preferred

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree Required
Master's Degree Preferred

Salary/Compensations

$80,336.75 - $140,851.54

Benefits

Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
12 Paid Holidays
Annual incentive program

About the Company

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.
Colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society are integrated goals.
The company fosters an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers, and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development.
Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued.
The company's impact is distinctive, with faculty and colleagues shaping healthcare education and solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers.
For more information, visit covista.com and follow on LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Equal Opportunity

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