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.
We are looking for individuals who have experience in building AI strategy for organization and business units and can program manage large innovation forums for the enterprise. This will be a IC role where the individual will work across stakeholders and help design the AI strategy and also co-lead innovation forums from ideation to implementation of ideas across enterprise. This will be a high visibility role with accelerated learning.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Overall AI strategy development across buisness units, stakeholder management, CXO alignment, strategic thinking, program management of large innovation forums, hands on experience of deploying and conceptualising right metrics for AI scale
- Execution readiness for identified AI first initiatives
- Process improvement and reimagination of current processes with AI
- Collaboration across operations, transformation, data, AI and technology teams
- Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in any discipline
- Project Management certification / Master's of Business Administration - top tier institute
- 10+ years of work experience
- Experience in projects involving emerging technologies (automation, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intellgience, etc)
- Experience in managing innovation forums
- Experience in a AI strategy build
- Extensive experience in working with stakeholders across leadership levelsng employment
- Extensive work experience in working in a collaborative environment
- Program management - Experience in managing transformation roadmaps - AI/ML/ Gen Ai program management experience / Exposure to deploying latest tech / automations to solve business problems
- Demonstrated experience in change management
- Proven excellent communication & presentation skills
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- Project Management certification or MBA from a top-tier institute
- 10 or more years of work experience
- Experience with emerging technology projects, including automation, machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence
- Experience managing innovation forums
- Experience building AI strategy
- Extensive experience working with stakeholders across leadership levels
- Extensive experience working in a collaborative environment
- Program management experience, including transformation roadmaps and AI, machine learning, or generative AI programs
- Exposure to deploying new technologies and automations to solve business problems
- Demonstrated change management experience
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is generally described as decent or good, and many note it as a strong part of the package. Actual ability to take time off can depend on workload and team coverage.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with employer match and access to an employee stock purchase plan, which are highlighted as meaningful components of total rewards. These programs are consistently referenced among core benefits.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and caregiver leave, along with adoption assistance, are publicly highlighted and viewed as notable elements of the package. Availability can be role-specific, but these supports contribute to overall breadth where offered.
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What We Do
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, 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. At Optum, we support your well-being with an understanding team, extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us, you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change, improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business and the responsibilities of each role. These models, core on‑site (5 days/week), hybrid (4 days/week) and telecommute or fully remote, vary by country, role and location.
