Senior Agile Product Owner

Optum is a global organisation 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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.

As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.

The Senior  Product Owner- Optum Life Sciences  will work with technical and operational teams and lead product delivery activity from definition through to launch. This role will ensure the delivery of high-quality products with a clear value proposition based on addressing unmet needs for our customers (both internally and externally).

The role will take accountability for managing and prioritizing backlogs, generating and delivering roadmaps, launching and integrating products into business processes which will continuously improve and evolve. 

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define the vision for the product in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and business partners to understand and anticipate their needs.
• Develop, maintain, and oversee delivery of the product roadmap.
• Prioritize features/functionality for development based on business need and value.
• Manage and communicate the product backlog to all relevant stakeholders.
• Work with relevant Business teams to fully understand and clarify the requirements as appropriate.
• Translate business need into clearly documented requirements and work with Technical Product Owner/Delivery leads to refine as appropriate.
• In collaboration with Business partners, define and clearly articulate success and acceptance criteria based on a solid understanding and measuring of business value.
• Ensure UAT is completed, deliverables meet acceptance criteria and are signed off adequately ahead of deployments.
• Provide approval/sign off for added features, functionality & defect fixes ahead of releases.
• Work with the Operations team to oversee solution rollout. Operate as a SME for the product, educate internal teams (such as Growth & Implementation) regarding product value proposition and functionality. Showcase product to external customers as required.
• Manage issue escalation as appropriate.
• Ensure solution integration, leading business process development as appropriate.
• Regular attendance and engagement at scrum ceremonies for example, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives, backlog review and refinement calls etc.
• Liaise with leadership, management teams, end-users, and other stakeholders, and provide status updates regularly.
• Support business delivery frameworks and tools as required for example; Accelerate Product Delivery Framework, Aha roadmapping and feature integration tool….
• Develop and maintain relevant documentation.
• Support general Product Ownership activities and ad hoc requests as required.

You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Product Ownership experience in an Agile environment, working with Agile Processes, Principals & Tools
• Demonstrated experience building roadmaps, managing backlogs, and working with technical development teams to drive delivery
• Experience translating business requirements into Capabilities, Features and User Stories
• Stakeholder management experience, with strong communication skills and an ability to build collaborative relationships with cross functional teams
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and associated activities
• Proficiency with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Roadmapping and Backlog management tools such as Aha and Rally
• Experience working on large scale and high impact projects
• Experience leading process improvement/optimization activities
• Ability to quickly build subject matter expertise
• Familiarity with the HealthCare industry
• Technical skills including basic SQL an advantage but not essential
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) OR equivalent experience

Soft Skills:

• Effective leadership, decision making, prioritization and problem solving skills
• Ability to work well under pressure in a demanding environment and be adaptable to change.

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

For more information on our Internal Job Posting Policy, click here. 

 

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 marginalised 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.

 

 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

 

 

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