Director Technical Product Management - Remote - Remote Eligible

Technical Product Manager

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 talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

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:

• Collaborates with business stakeholders and Product Managers who can provide insights into business strategies, trends, and opportunities
• Partner with appropriate teams to coordinate solution activities
• Partner with engineering teams on the creation of requirements and user stories
• Ensure commitments are delivered on time and on budget, including identifying and resolving risks and issues
• Utilize influencing skills to build a collaborative culture and foster relationships with strategic partners with focus on innovation, growth, and continuous improvement
• Partner with stakeholders on creation of value story/business case and participate in capital funding process
• Crafts a meaningful technology vision for the platform and communicates it to engineering teams, operational partners, and other stakeholders
• Gathers and analyzes user and client feedback on our products (complaints, NPS results, user panels, etc.)
• Gathers and publish metrics that assess product usage and health
• Monitors industry technology roadmaps; Recommends innovation in digital and relevant channel strategies
• Drives innovation into our product portfolio in collaboration with business, operational and technology leaders by identifying opportunities to use emerging technologies
• Actively works across teams and products to find synergies and duplication; works with teams to leverage opportunities or remove obstacles
• Negotiates win-win solutions across teams and lines of business (cross application / cross portfolio)
• Enables new connections / relationships among partners across multiple portfolio teams
• Guides leadership-level alignment across organization
• Effectively presents product opportunities in leadership discussions / funding decisions
• Drives forecasting and planning activities, including resource management (supply/demand)

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:

• 8+ years of technical product management experience
• 4+ years of experience working in an agile or scaled agile development environment
• 3+ years of experience leading teams with diverse backgrounds in a technical organization
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and influence others
• Familiarity with software development concepts and comfortable reading and interpreting technical documentation and working with developers, solution architects and other technical staff

Preferred Qualifications:

• Loyalty/rewards program experience
• Experience in defining, developing, and maintaining platform-level scaled product solutions with diverse set of stakeholders and competing priorities between common-capabilities and specific internal-partner needs
• Experienced in agile software development processes and tools
• Solid communication skills and ability to influence leaders and multiple stakeholders with and without direct authority
• Solid relationship and interpersonal skills
• Solid analytical skills
• Ability to think strategically and execute methodically
• Strategic thinker

*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 $132,200 to $226,600 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 make the health system work better for everyone. 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.

UnitedHealth Group is 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 is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.