Director of Applied Intelligence, Products Portfolio

The Director of Applied Intelligence Products Portfolio plays a pivotal role in advancing Huron’s Healthcare Insights portfolio by shaping, scaling, and activating a unified cross-domain analytics platform. This role sits at the intersection of product management, healthcare domain expertise, and consulting technology enablement, with a focus on driving value from insights that span revenue cycle, clinical, operational, and growth practice areas.

Rather than owning a single solution area, this role is responsible for cross-domain value creation: identifying high-impact use cases that require data, context, and capabilities from multiple domains; curating those opportunities into repeatable patterns; and translating the most valuable patterns into shared platform and experience layer capabilities, product frameworks, and client solutions.

The Director partners closely with consulting teams, domain product and capability owners, and platform architects to ensure the platform accelerates consulting delivery today while laying additional groundwork for repeatable, scalable, AI‑enabled subscription offerings as these capabilities mature.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a connective leader across platform teams, domain product owners, data science, and consulting stakeholders.
• Facilitate structured conversations around prioritization, tradeoffs, and sequencing, particularly where cross‑domain dependencies exist.
• Communicate platform value and common frameworks in language that resonates with diverse audiences, from technical teams to healthcare executives and consulting partners.
• Socialize platform progress, wins, learnings, and new opportunities to senior leadership, reinforcing momentum, clarity of direction, and leverage from investments.
• Represent portfolio and platform capabilities in cross‑domain planning forums, ensuring domain product leaders understand what is available today or in the near term, how it should be used, and how feedback informs future roadmap decisions.

Consulting Partnership & Methodology Enablement

• Partner with consulting leadership and delivery teams across domains to design and support cross‑domain pilot engagements that leverage shared platform and data assets.
• Use these engagements to prove new insight‑led consulting methodologies, validate repeatable delivery patterns, and generate evidence of differentiated outcomes and client value.
• Partner with consulting leads to translate successful engagement patterns into reusable delivery playbooks, consultant enablement materials, inputs to future leave‑behind and subscription‑based offerings, and opportunities to expand technology revenue streams alongside consulting revenue.
• Support alignment between capabilities and consulting motions, ensuring platform investments reinforce Huron’s consulting‑first go‑to‑market strategy while also creating pathways to recurring managed services and technology‑based revenue streams.

Cross‑Domain Use Case Curation & Governance

• Identify, triage, and curate cross‑domain analytics and AI use cases that address complex healthcare challenges and cannot be solved within a single solution area.
• Evaluate use cases through both impact and commercial lenses, including their potential to improve consulting outcomes and delivery efficiency, enable cross‑sell and upsell opportunities, and serve as candidates for future productization or subscription offerings.
• Maintain a living, prioritized portfolio of cross‑domain opportunities that informs platform roadmap discussions, consulting pilots, delivery methodology evolution, and investment decisions.
• Partner with domain leaders to ensure use cases are grounded in real healthcare workflows, client pain points, success criteria, and data realities.

Portfolio & Platform Capability Roadmap Ownership

• Identify recurring patterns across curated use cases that signal the need for shared platform capabilities, such as semantic services, agent orchestration rails, reusable analytic services, and common context layers.
• Shepherd these opportunities from concept through validation by defining the platform‑level problem to be solved, intended consumers, and success measures.
• Work with platform, architecture, and engineering partners to frame these capabilities as enablement assets rather than domain‑specific features, balancing guardrails with flexibility.
• Own portfolio and platform capability priorities, working in lockstep with domain teams and the Platform Architect to ensure technical direction and product value remain tightly aligned.
• Serve as the Product Manager for shared platform capabilities, with accountability for defining the problem space, value proposition, experience layers, and success criteria for capabilities intended to support multiple Healthcare Insights domains.
• Partner closely with the Platform Architect to translate cross‑domain needs into a clear platform capability roadmap, define capability boundaries and dependencies, and ensure alignment between product intent and long‑term platform scalability.
• Review technical architecture and plans with the Lead Architect to ensure business needs are met and technical tradeoffs are understood in the context of fiscal responsibility.
• Lead capability discovery and definition, including framing platform‑level requirements, distinguishing what belongs in the platform versus what should remain domain‑specific, and defining standards and guardrails that enable domain teams to build faster and more consistently.
• Partner with the Architect acting as Technical Product Owner for portfolio‑level and platform capabilities where appropriate, including owning high‑level epics, prioritizing work, and partnering with delivery leads to ensure clarity of intent and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure portfolio and platform capabilities are designed as enablement assets, with clear guidance on intended users, usage and reuse patterns, integration expectations, and success measures tied to adoption and acceleration of domain delivery.
• Continuously assess capabilities in market and in practice, using feedback from domain teams and consulting engagements to refine scope, roadmap, and investment decisions.

Execution & Continuous Learning

• Partner with delivery and domain portfolio teams to ensure curated opportunities move forward with clarity, ownership, and momentum.
• Participate in backlog and planning discussions as needed across capabilities, domains, and platform teams.
• Use feedback from pilots, usage, and consulting teams to continuously refine use‑case prioritization and platform direction.

Qualifications

Experience & Background

• 7+ years of experience in product management, strategy, consulting, or a related role focused on data, analytics, platforms, or healthcare solutions.
• Demonstrated experience working across multiple domains or portfolios rather than within a single product or functional area.
• Background in healthcare analytics, healthcare consulting, or health‑tech platforms strongly preferred.

Core Strengths

• Strong ability to synthesize complex healthcare challenges into clear opportunity statements and product narratives.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with a bias toward structured thinking, prioritization, and learning through pilots.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and align diverse stakeholders around shared goals.
• Working understanding and experience with modern data and analytics concepts, including data platforms, semantic layers, AI/ML, and analytics products, without requiring deep hands‑on technical ownership.

Collaboration & Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to engage credibly with consultants, product leaders, architects, and executives.
• Comfort translating between healthcare, consulting, and product perspectives.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, Health Informatics, Data Science) preferred.

The estimated base salary for this job is $175,000 - $245,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $218,750 - $330,750 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Director

Country

United States of America

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