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The Product Operations Launch Manager is responsible for driving successful product launches from planning through General Availability (GA). This role partners closely with Product Management and coordinates across product delivery and client-facing functions to ensure launches are well-executed, adopted, and measured.
As the central hub for launch execution, this role combines strong program management with high influence; motivating teams, holding stakeholders accountable, and ensuring readiness across people, process, and tooling.
Who We Are:
We’re an $8+ billion, rapidly growing workforce solutions provider in the healthcare industry. We deliver tech-enabled services that help healthcare organizations meet and manage their contingent labor needs. We build and manage tech-enabled marketplaces for national and local healthcare talent and deliver contingent labor management solutions through our proprietary software platform.
At Aya, we’re obsessed with creating exceptional experiences for our clients, clinicians, and employees. In fact, we put employee satisfaction above all else. Our team members are responsible for incomparable customer experience and we know that happy employees are critical to maintaining happy clients. We foster an entrepreneurial, high-energy, low-bureaucracy culture and value innovative thinking and creative problem solving. We embrace diversity in thought and backgrounds unified by a commitment to high achievement. When you join Aya, you’ll be surrounded by teammates who care about you as an individual and leaders who will help you grow both personally and professionally.
Responsibilities:
Launch Planning & Execution
- Serve as the central hub for end-to-end launch planning, creating and maintaining timelines surrounding launch activities across designated product offerings, managing dependencies, and deliverables across Product, Engineering, Client Success, Product Marketing, and other stakeholders.
- Drive execution of Alpha, Beta, and General Availability (GA) launches across all teams.
- Coordinate GA readiness meetings and ensure launch criteria are met prior to release.
- Hold teams accountable to agreed-upon tasks, milestones, and implementation commitments.
Testing & Readiness
- Coordinate execution of UAT and Alpha test plans in partnership with Product and Engineering.
- Manage the Beta Tester Program, including participant lists, communications, and feedback collection.
- Communicate beta known bugs, limitations, and workarounds to internal users and stakeholders.
Enablement, Communication & Change Management
- Manage internal and external launch communications, including enablement plans, training coordination, and feedback loops.
- Ensure enablement resources, documentation, and resource libraries are created, updated, and easily accessible.
- Support change management efforts to drive awareness, readiness, and adoption across business teams.
Measurement & Continuous Improvement
- Advise Product and business partners on defining launch success metrics and adoption KPIs.
- Support monitoring of launch performance and feedback to inform iteration and improvement post-launch.
- Act as a feedback conduit between customers, internal teams, and Product Management.
Qualifications:
Required
- 5+ years of experience in Product Operations, Program Management, Project Management, or a related role.
- Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to deeply understand the work being delivered — including workflows, constraints, and dependencies — and translate that understanding into effective plans and execution.
- Strong project management skills, including planning, prioritization, risk management, and execution.
- Comfort operating at both the strategic and tactical levels, with a willingness to dig into details, ask questions, and build a strong understanding of how the work actually gets done.
- Exceptional communication and organizational skills with the ability to influence without authority.
- Experience driving change management and adoption initiatives.
Preferred
- Experience supporting product launches.
- Familiarity with product development lifecycles (Alpha, Beta, GA).
- Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent project management certification.
What We Offer:
- Free premium medical, dental, life and vision insurance
- Generous 401(k) match
- Aya also offers other benefits to those that are eligible and where required by applicable law, including reimbursements and discretionary bonuses
- Aya provides paid sick leave in accordance with all applicable state, federal, and local laws. Aya’s general sick leave policy is that employees accrue one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. However, to the extent any provisions of the statement above conflict with any applicable paid sick leave laws, the applicable paid sick leave laws are controlling
- Celebrations! We hit our goals and reward ourselves.
- Company-sponsored virtual events, happy hours and team-building activities are always on the horizon — plus, you get a special treat on your birthday!
- Unlimited DTO — we believe in time off!
- Virtual yoga, meditation or boot camp classes offered daily
Compensation: Aya reasonably anticipates the pay scale for this position to be an annual salary of $100,000 to $130,000.
The pay scale for this position may vary if applicant possesses experience outside of what Aya reasonably anticipates for this position. Bonuses are subject to the role and your manager’s discretion.
Aya Is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) and welcomes all to apply. Please click here for our EEO policy.