Senior Technical Product Manager

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.  

Manages a specific good or service available externally on the market that can be sold stand-alone, and that directly generates revenue. Responsible for the full product lifecycle management, including: strategy, design, development, management and end of life of new, existing or acquisition products. Leverage market insights to understand market/customer needs to identify new opportunities or make adjustments to current product offerings. Accountable for delivering product performance against expectations and updates changes to a product portfolio to improve competitive position, and optimal product performance to meet customer and market needs. Accountable to and/or own the P&L. Partner with internal or external stakeholders (key customers, product partnerships, etc.) to define and drive future product direction.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create to describe business cases, define high-level use cases, document functional requirements, and parent feature sets
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototyping and final development by engineering teams
• Manage products through the product development lifecycle, inclusive of capital budgeting & planning
• Applies understanding of technology to influence and assess feasibility of solutions
• Continuously prioritize to balance resources & budgets with delivery expectations and timelines
• Understand and help to clarify both business needs and technology challenges
• Identify strategic opportunities to advance existing capabilities and generate new ideas to enhance customer experience and drive growth
• Collaborate closely with solution owners, capability leads, engineering, UX design team and other key stakeholders in the development, QA, and release of functional platform capabilities
• Closely work with engineering sprints teams and has experience working in agile framework
• Analyzes and investigates
• Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
• 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:

• 5+ years of experience in the following areas: product management, new product development, new product launches, roadmap creation, SaaS product development, platform development, product integrations, data modeling, product engineering, platform engineering, data architecture, or product architecture
• Experience working independently on product strategy, which is not fully defined and managing complex product management scenarios
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio or process flow tools
• Demonstrated solid written, verbal communication skills and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple/detail-oriented tasks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master Degree – Btech, BE, MBA
• 3+ years of experience working with healthcare products and data
• Experience in any combination of the following areas: advanced analytics including machine learning and artificial intelligence, data science, data enrichment, or business intelligence
• Understanding of the health ecosystem and how payers and providers are working, how they work together, and how technology can support them as they move towards value-based care

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.