For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Join our Home & Community team as a Sr. Product Manager, leading the strategy, development, and performance of key healthcare capabilities. This role owns products end-to-end, translating business needs into product roadmaps, requirements, and scalable technology solutions while partnering closely with business, operations, and technology teams.
The ideal candidate is a strategic product leader with experience delivering healthcare products in complex, matrixed organizations. Success in this role requires expertise in product development, stakeholder management, agile delivery, roadmap prioritization, and driving measurable business outcomes. You will serve as the bridge between business and technology, ensuring solutions align with organizational goals and customer needs.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Owns new development, deployment, and performance of their defined capabilities, leading and managing capability(ies) end-to-end
- Decomposes initiatives into defined deliverables, product features, and business and technical requirements
- Defines and prioritizes deliverables into a business-level roadmap, ensuring consistent communication and alignment across cross-functional stakeholders
- Develops use cases, business and technical requirements, and workflows for new features by soliciting feedback across H&C and our customers
- Acts as primary source for capability detail and priorities for cross functional partners, ensuring understanding and appropriate prioritization; owner of the backlog with capability owners and engineering
- Understands, defines, and prioritizes capability vision into business roadmap; manages scope and requirement changes that occur during development
- Defines success metrics and performance manages capabilities to those metrics, ensuring KPIs and associated reporting are embedded in everything we do
- Collaborates with technology to document technical vision, requirements, and communicate solutions
- Owns work plans to deliver, including resource allocation, risk management, and issue resolution
- Assesses technology solution options and decisions, ensuring alignment across business and technology stakeholders to end goals and mitigating business risks
- Oversees operational readiness planning, participates in UAT and prioritizes defects
- Monitors budget and delivery progress, provides consistent visibility into work to stakeholders
- Understands and facilitate end-to-end solutions and system integration needs
You'll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- 6 + years of experience leading capability enablement and product development in a large-scale, highly matrixed team environment
- Healthcare experience required with experience in delivering new initiatives and products within the healthcare domain
- Experience working with AHA and Rally
- Experience with SAFe , LeSS or similar frameworks
- Demonstrated experience in verbal and written communications and presentations at the executive level
- Demonstrated ability to work with business leaders and enable strategy execution
*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $112,700 - $193,200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. Together, we are shaping the future of healthcare by harnessing technology and innovation to make care simpler to navigate, more affordable and more connected for the people we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued, heard and respected, empowering people to bring their authentic selves to work and strengthening our collective impact through diverse talents, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience leading capability enablement and product development in a large-scale, highly matrixed environment
- Healthcare experience delivering new initiatives and products within the healthcare domain
- Experience working with AHA and Rally
- Experience with SAFe, LeSS, or similar frameworks
- Verbal and written communication and executive-level presentation skills
- Ability to work with business leaders and enable strategy execution
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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