Director Technical Product Management

As a product leader within the Core Cloud Technology product management team, you will be responsible for driving the strategy and execution for our internal developer platform. We’re on a journey to provide engineering teams with a technology rich community and a destination workplace to perform push button experiences through automation and a solution marketplace.  You will advocate for platform users, align with the enterprise platforms multi-platform strategy, and work with platform leadership on maturing roadmaps, gaining investment approvals, and delivering new solution capabilities. You will have significant impact and influence on the platform direction and be responsible for achieving measured outcomes. You’ll be working with a team of product managers and technologists to mature and accelerate data access at UnitedHealth Group.

Primary Responsibilities

• Accountable for execution of a product strategy for an enterprise ecosystem for engineering teams.
• Partner with other product leaders to align strategy and roadmaps for a multi-platform experience.
• Collaborate with applicable stakeholders to obtain appropriate market information/data and define stakeholder and business needs
• Understand how user-experience (UX) and application strategy need to come together for an optimal experience
• Partner with appropriate teams to coordinate solution research activities (secondary and primary)
• Partner with engineering teams on the creation of requirements and user stories
• Ensure platform 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
• Define and ensure application measures are appropriately in place and utilized to derive insights/advance the product roadmap

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of technical product management experience, including products within Cloud, SaaS
• 5+ years of experience creating product roadmap(s) from conception to launch, driving product vision, defining go-to-market strategy, and leading design discussions
•  5+ years of experience using data and metrics to justify requirements, build business cases and measure digital product performance against goals and toward continuous improvement
• 3+ years of experience leading teams with diverse backgrounds in a technical organization

Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.^SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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