The Role
Lead the vision, roadmap, backlog, and delivery of AI-native healthcare products using agentic AI, automation, and advanced analytics. Translate business needs into technical capabilities, partner with engineering, UX, and AI/ML teams, define success metrics and governance, and drive agile execution. The role requires strong product leadership, technical depth across APIs, cloud platforms, data architectures, and enterprise systems, plus experience shipping AI-native or agentic products.
Summary Generated by Built In
Requisition Number: 2386032
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.
Lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of AI-native healthcare products that leverage agentic AI, automation, and advanced analytics to solve complex business problems. Own product execution end-to-end by partnering with business, engineering, UX, AI/ML, and operations teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Ideal Candidate
A technically strong product leader who can bridge business strategy and engineering execution, harness AI to solve healthcare challenges, and consistently deliver impactful business outcomes.
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.
Lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of AI-native healthcare products that leverage agentic AI, automation, and advanced analytics to solve complex business problems. Own product execution end-to-end by partnering with business, engineering, UX, AI/ML, and operations teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Own product vision, roadmap, backlog, and release execution
- Translate business needs into capabilities, features, and technical requirements
- Drive system, process, and data analysis to identify product opportunities
- Partner with engineering, UX, and AI/ML teams to build scalable AI-driven solutions
- Define success metrics, evaluation frameworks, and governance for agentic AI products
- Lead agile execution, stakeholder demos, and roadmap communications
- Foster innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous value delivery
- 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:
- Graduate degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years in Product Management, Product Ownership, or Technology Delivery
- Experience with AI based product is mandatory
- Proven experience shipping AI-native or agentic products involving orchestration, tool use, retrieval, and autonomous decision-making
- Experience with AI-native development practices and human-in-the-loop systems
- Proven solid expertise in backlog management, user stories, Agile delivery, and tools such as Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps, or Aha!
- Proven technical depth across APIs, cloud platforms, data architectures, and enterprise systems
- Proven solid analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
- Proven excellent communication and ability to influence across a matrixed organization
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA, or equivalent technical/business qualifications
- Experience in US Healthcare IT products strategy and development
- Experience working with AI/ML, Data Science, or Automation teams
- Experience collaborating across US and India teams
Ideal Candidate
A technically strong product leader who can bridge business strategy and engineering execution, harness AI to solve healthcare challenges, and consistently deliver impactful business outcomes.
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
- Graduate degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, or Technology Delivery
- Experience with AI-based products
- Experience shipping AI-native or agentic products involving orchestration, tool use, retrieval, and autonomous decision-making
- Experience with AI-native development practices and human-in-the-loop systems
- Expertise in backlog management, user stories, Agile delivery, and tools such as Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps, or Aha!
- Technical depth across APIs, cloud platforms, data architectures, and enterprise systems
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication and ability to influence across a matrixed organization
- MBA or equivalent technical/business qualifications
- Experience in US Healthcare IT product strategy and development
- Experience working with AI/ML, Data Science, or Automation teams
- Experience collaborating across US and India teams
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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Optum Offices
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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