Technical Product Manager PO

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with product manager to obtain voice of customer (VOC) and identify capabilities to add to the product
• Aid in the prioritization of capabilities and features
• Deconstruct features into user stories to be executed by the scrum teams
• Produce a healthy backlog by grooming four sprints worth of users stories
• Prioritize backlog based on priority established by the product manager
• Define sprint plan
• 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 or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience working in Scrum, Agile or Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment 
• 2+ years of Product owner experience on an Agile scrum team 
• Proven solid written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to write user stories
• Proven ability to understand the purpose and value of the product and share it both internally and externally; work with the Architect to determine the ideal design and the Development Team to develop and deploy the capability for the marketDrive business work within the Agile process, sharing Business vision
• Proven ability to support the Product Manager, using Roadmap and Capabilities as a guide
• Proven ability to define and prioritize User Stories that will be groomed and developed by Product Development team
• Proven ability to work with Product Development team to ensure user story alignment across multiple agile teams
• Proven ability to own relationship with Functional Area SMEs. Participate in discovery on potential capabilities, assessing the user stories needed for desired outcomes
• Proven ability to identify potential issues and pro-actively develop mitigation plans; Assist in removing obstacles, resolve conflicts and ensure alignment
• Proven ability to lead and collaborate cross-functionally, including clients, users, UX designers, engineers, testers, other product managers, solution architects

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.