Senior Manager Tech Product Management

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Product Vision and Strategy
  • Define and drive the long term technical product vision and strategy for the Clinical Product Platform
  • Translate clinical and business needs into a clear, prioritized product roadmap, with actionable initiatives, release plans, and clearly defined outcomes/KPIs
  • Represent the CPP vision and roadmap to stakeholders at multiple levels and secure alignment and buy in
  • Identify opportunities using market research, competitive insights, and stakeholder discovery; incorporate regulatory and operational constraints
• Product Lifecycle Ownership
  • Own product lifecycle activities: discovery, requirements definition, backlog prioritization, delivery, launch readiness, and post-launch optimization
  • Define and document high quality features, user stories, and acceptance criteria to enable predictable, high quality delivery
  • Deliver and evolve standardized, reusable clinical capabilities that can be leveraged across clinical products
  • Ensure consistency and reuse of clinical logic, workflows, and data models across consuming applications
  • Enable interoperability and integration with downstream systems such as care management, pharmacy, analytics, and provider facing tools
• Cross Functional Leadership and Delivery
  • Act as the technical product owner partnering with engineering, architecture, clinical, and business teams
  • Lead and influence cross functional teams without formal authority
  • Reduce handoffs and improve speed from idea to deployment for clinical products built on CPP
  • Lead, mentor, and develop product managers and/or product owners; establish solid product practices and operating rhythms
  • Promote disciplined execution (Agile ceremonies, backlog hygiene, release readiness), and transparent reporting using modern product tools
• Data Driven and Financial Stewardship
  • Use data and analytics to inform prioritization and roadmap decisions
  • Build data driven business cases to support investment and funding decisions
  • Ensure CPP initiatives are financially sound and aligned with approved investments
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in product management, technical product management, or a related product delivery role
• Hands-on experience working within Agile or scaled Agile environments
• Experience leading or mentoring Product Owners, Business Analysts, or similar roles
• Demonstrated experience working with cross functional technology and business teams
• Demonstrated solid ability to translate complex clinical and business needs into technical product solutions
• Demonstrated solid analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to break down complex initiatives into execution ready work
• Demonstrated excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non technical groups
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with engineering, quality, and delivery leadership to ensure clarity and alignment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting clinical or healthcare technology platforms
• Experience working with enterprise platforms designed for reuse across multiple products
• Experience with AI enabled or automation tools to improve productivity and product outcomes 
• Familiarity with data driven decision making and financial analysis

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.