Senior Technical Product Manager

Requisition Number: 2349937
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:

• Own and drive the product vision and roadmap for an enterprise capability platform supporting integrated data, analytics, and reporting for both internal and external users
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, data engineers, application engineers, architects, and UI/UX teams to gather requirements, align priorities, and define outcomes
• Translate business needs into actionable product artifacts, including user stories, features, acceptance criteria, release notes, and comprehensive product documentation, using tools such as Rally and Aha
• Collaborate with engineering teams to review solution designs, clarify requirements, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery aligned to business goals
• Lead and support Agile delivery ceremonies, ensuring effective backlog grooming, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Proactively communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and upcoming milestones to leadership and key stakeholders with clarity and consistency
• Drive stakeholder alignment and buy-in across complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Make data-driven decisions in ambiguous, fast-changing environments while balancing business value, technical feasibility, and delivery timelines
• Support project financials, including budget tracking, issue management, and risk mitigation
• Ensure strong project governance, including status reporting, issue resolution, and follow-through on action items
• 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 degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• 8+ years of product management experience
• 3+ years of experience in the healthcare industry
• 3+ years of experience writing user stories, features, release notes, and product documentation
• Proven experience managing medium to large, initiatives with multiple stakeholders and interdependencies
• Experience working with medium-large, cross-functional teams across technology and business functions
• Experience with issue management, risk mitigation, and project communication
• Solid understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and modern product development practices
• Proven excellent requirements gathering and analysis skills
• Proven solid data analysis and basic SQL capabilities; experience with data mining and insights generation
• Demonstrated strength in stakeholder management and influencing without authority
• Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven solid analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
• Proven comfortable building and leveraging AI-enabled tools to improve KPIs and delivery outcomes

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or advanced technical graduate degree
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, and cloud technologies
• Familiarity with Rally, Aha, Figma, and analytics platforms
• Proven ability to mentor junior product managers and contribute to overall team capability and growth

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.