Owns agile product management for healthcare technology platforms, including roadmap development, backlog refinement and prioritization, feature writing, acceptance criteria, dependency management, and stakeholder collaboration. The role supports client onboarding, self-service adoption, AI-first product development, and faster time to market while facilitating agile ceremonies and serving as a product owner.
Requisition Number: 2381316
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:
Preferred 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:
- This role plays a vital role in enabling Self Servicing by Business for Onboarding new clients and reduce the time to market by users, hence resulting in accelerating platform and product adoptions. Identifying critical product dependencies across client
- This role delivers direct clinical and financial value by providing insights to drive innovation and quicker decision-making strategy for internal users. *AI AlIGNMENT* AI First Leader *AI ALIGNMENT DETAIL* This role aligns best with the AI-First Leader profile.Drive AI First thought process for new features and ensure AI solutions are efficient and effective *RISK* Clients will swirl on what and how to adopt the platform impacting speed to market. Adoptions will cost more, and will be off target. *SPANS & LAYERS* Individual Contributor
- Apply agile product management principles doing customer value analysis, product road mapping, product backlog item refining, product backlog item prioritization, and may serve as an agile team product owner
- Work with technology teams and business users to understand how technology can be most effectively leveraged to advance business goals
- Work with tech teams, business users, and business partners to understand what is required to drive value
- Write features and acceptance criteria
- Manage product backlogs (refine product backlog items, prioritize product backlog items)
- Ensure agile and team ceremonies are effective (planning, daily SCRUM, retrospectives)
- Determine dependencies and negotiate solutions
- 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 regard 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
- 3 years of experience as an Agile Product Owner
- 3+ years of experience as an Agile Product Owner
- 3+ years of SAFE or scrum agile experience
- 2+ years of healthcare industry experience
- Healthcare technology experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Product manager experience / product management methodology knowledge
- HL7 and / or FHIR experience
- Experience with Rally (agile software) (1+ years)
- Experience with Aha! (product road mapping tool)
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.
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