The AP Prototype Development and Evaluation team exists to help AP learn fast and decide well on major innovations that could materially affect outcomes, operations, trust, or costs-to-serve. The team evaluates high-impact program and product changes before the organization commits to build and scale, producing decision-ready recommendations grounded in market requirements, implementation feasibility, directional economics, and evidence from staged pilots.
The team functions as an internal viability studio, drawing on cross-functional contributors assembled around each initiative to ensure AP pursues innovations that are desirable, workable, sustainable, and aligned to strategy. It also creates the confidence to stop early when the facts don’t support moving forward.
The Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Management is the team’s most collaborative and flexible role, bringing structure and continuity to a fast-moving portfolio of prototype and pilot initiatives so work stays organized, on track, and well documented. This role thrives on shifting priorities and ambiguity, moving fluidly between leading cross-functional execution across the portfolio and producing and managing the team’s decision-ready documents. The Associate Director owns the operating cadence and knowledge systems that let the team move quickly without losing rigor, ensuring work flows smoothly across contributors and workstreams and that the team’s knowledge and artifacts stay easy to find and reuse, and that proposed initiatives carry clear delivery and financial framing before AP commits to build.