Advisory Services Senior Consultant Product Owner, Payer HealthCare

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 diversity and inclusion, 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.

If you are an experienced Product Engineer who takes pride in what you deliver and passionate about building highly scalable applications, we have a great opportunity for you. We are looking for a Product Owner who can help us build a new application or modernize existing applications. You will serve as an individual contributor and help us to meet requirements with clients. You work closely with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, prioritize features, and drive the execution of our digital roadmap. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our digital offerings, enhance user experiences, and drive business growth.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and prioritize product requirements, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
• Feature prioritization: Prioritize features and enhancements based on user feedback, market research, and business impact analysis
• Cross-functional collaboration: work closely with design, engineering, marketing, and other teams to translate product requirements into actionable plans and deliverables
• Roadmap management: Maintain and deliver on the product roadmap, ensuring that it reflects the strategic priorities of the business and addresses customer needs
• Agile product development: Manage the product development process using agile methodologies. May include sprint planning, backlog grooming and release management
• Quality assurance: Participate in the review of the product during the development phase and pre- and post-launch to ensure it meets specified requirements, best practices and standards to satisfy the customer. This may include testing, business or stakeholder reviews and providing sign off prior to go live
• User experience optimization: Collaborate with UX/UI designers to optimize the user experience of our digital products, supporting usability testing and design iterations as needed
• Performance monitoring: Monitor key product metrics and analytics to track product performance, identify areas for improvement, and make data-driven decisions
• Stakeholder communication: Communicate product strategy, digital best practices, roadmap updates, project and feature status to internal stakeholders and external partners as needed
• Market research: Stay informed about industry trends, competitor offerings, and emerging technologies to inform product strategy and innovation efforts
• 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:

• Technical Skill Set:
  • 10+ years of experience in IT industry
  • 5+ years of experience in product owner role in US Health Care Payer domain, with a proven track record of delivering successful digital products or services on Cloud
  • Significant experience managing and developing web portals or portal-based products
  • Knowledge of web and mobile technologies, UI/UX design principles, and digital marketing concepts
  • Understanding of the specific technologies, design principles, and user experience considerations related to portal development
  • Good understanding of non-functional and compliance guidelines
  • Deep understanding of Agile principles and Scrum framework, working experience in agile development environments and familiarity with agile methodologies such as scrum or kanban
  • Well versed with Web and API/Microservice architecture patterns and cloud implementations
  • Proven solid leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate a team
  • Proven solid analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex requirements into actionable product plans
  • Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt quickly to changing priorities and business needs
  • Proven ability to address challenges and obstacles effectively, prioritizing the most important tasks first
  • Proven excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification as a Product Owner (CSPO, PSPO, etc.)
• Proficiency with  Figma, Adobe Experience Manager and Cloud ( preferably Azure)

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.