The Role
Leads product vision, strategy, roadmap, platform design, and delivery for healthcare payment integrity, audit, and recovery workflows. Owns product outcomes, KPIs, stakeholder alignment, compliance, and scalable enterprise platform capabilities. Partners with engineering, architecture, business users, and global teams to deliver workflow improvements. Manages, coaches, and develops Product Managers while supporting hiring and product talent growth.
Summary Generated by Built In
Requisition Number: 2359890
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:
Required Qualifications:
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.
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 Strategy & Vision
- Define and own the product vision and multi year strategy for the assigned product, supporting payment integrity, audit, and recovery workflows across multiple lines of business
- Translate business problems and operational gaps into clear product direction, prioritized outcomes, and measurable value
- Ensure product capabilities align with regulatory requirements, payer and provider expectations, and enterprise payment integrity standards
- Serve as a senior product leader for the product, shaping platform direction and influencing roadmap and investment decisions
- Roadmap & Portfolio Leadership
- Own and prioritize the product roadmap, balancing platform stability, new capabilities, and incremental workflow improvements
- Drive alignment across stakeholders to sequence work based on business value, operational impact, and delivery readiness
- Establish and track product outcomes and KPIs such as throughput, cycle time reduction, audit yield, and user adoption
- Manage dependencies across teams and ensure roadmap transparency for leadership and partners
- Product Ownership & Platform Design
- Lead end to end product ownership for product workflows, including intake, audit execution, documentation, outcomes, and reporting
- Partner closely with engineering and architecture teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards
- Drive clarity on requirements, data needs, integrations, and system behaviors across upstream and downstream platforms
- Ensure the product evolves as a configurable, reusable platform that supports multiple clients and use cases
- Execution & Delivery Excellence
- Drive solid agile execution across engineering teams to deliver predictable, high quality outcomes
- Maintain a clear Definition of Done that includes functional completeness, performance, quality, and operational readiness
- Proactively identify and mitigate delivery, adoption, data, or compliance risks
- Partner with global teams to ensure effective collaboration across onshore and offshore delivery models
- Customer & Business Impact
- Own end to end product outcomes, including user adoption, operational efficiency, audit effectiveness, and financial impact
- Lead discovery and feedback sessions with business users and stakeholders to ensure workflows fit real world needs
- Translate insights from usage, metrics, and feedback into continuous product improvements and roadmap adjustments
- Support leadership and customer communications with clear product narratives and outcome reporting
- People Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers supporting CAP capabilities and workflows
- Set clear goals and expectations, provide regular feedback, and support career development for direct reports
- Partner with leadership on hiring, onboarding, and scaling product talent in India
- Foster a solid product culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and customer impact
- Compliance & Organizational Responsibilities
- Comply with all terms and conditions of employment, company policies, and applicable directives, including changes related to work location, teams, shifts, or work arrangements, as required by business needs
- 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 or Master's degree in IT, Computer Science, Health Sciences, Product Management, Analytics, or a related field
- 13+ years of experience in healthcare services, healthcare technology, or software development, with significant product management experience
- Experience managing and developing product managers or cross functional teams
- Proven experience leading enterprise platforms or complex workflow driven products
- Solid understanding of healthcare operations, payment integrity, or claims related workflow
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 or Master's degree in IT, Computer Science, Health Sciences, Product Management, Analytics, or a related field
- 13+ years of experience in healthcare services, healthcare technology, or software development, including significant product management experience
- Experience managing and developing Product Managers or cross-functional teams
- Experience leading enterprise platforms or complex workflow-driven products
- Understanding of healthcare operations, payment integrity, or claims-related workflows
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave (six weeks), paid caregiver leave (up to two weeks), Bright Horizons back-up care, and adoption assistance up to $10,000 are prominently included. Feedback suggests these family supports meaningfully aid work-life balance and are often highlighted as strengths.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is available to all employees, including part-time staff, alongside other financial protections like disability and life insurance. Feedback suggests broad access and matching make retirement support a core pillar of the package.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan offers discounted company stock, with some roles also eligible for sign-on or performance bonuses. Feedback suggests the ESPP is a standout financial perk that helps employees build ownership over time.
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The Company
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.
Typical time on-site:
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