Lead Tech 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 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.

The Lead Tech Product Manager serves as the business champion for infrastructure solutions across all Enterprise Imaging product lines. Optum Enterprise Imaging provides cloud and on-premises solutions such as diagnostic radiology and cardiology, workflow, vendor neutral archive and enterprise viewing to healthcare providers.

In this role, you’ll maintain an innovative and compelling product strategy for IT infrastructure such as storage, diagnostic workstations, monitors, load balancers, databases and hypervisors. You will also be responsible for working closely with cloud providers to maintain a strategy for cloud infrastructure optimization. The Senior Product Manager will translate the IT infrastructure strategy into an ongoing business and go to market plan that drives value to Enterprise Imaging solutions and customers. The Senior Product Manager will also serve as the end-to-end owner of the IT infrastructure products across their lifecycle.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely* from anywhere within Canada (except for the Saskatchewan province) as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop product strategy: Collaborate with senior management to define the overall product strategy, aligning it with the company’s goals and objectives
• Product planning and road-mapping: Create and maintain a product roadmap that outlines the product vision, key features, and timeline for development
• Prioritize product initiatives based on business impact, customer needs, and resource availability
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to ensure successful product development and launch
• With engineering, focus and prioritize product qualification and other efforts to make IT infrastructure solutions ready for market, driving execution of the product plan, from ideation through requirements, validation, and release.
• In partnership with sales, marketing, and cross-functional leadership, develop an effective go-to-market strategy and monitor product performance
• With sales, marketing, and cross-functional leadership, develop generic solution promotions and bundles or for specific vendors to drive sales
• Develop and maintain infrastructure vendor relations, including negotiation of agreements, cost schedules and pricing
• Serve as subject matter expert for infrastructure solutions in support of strategic selling efforts
• Serve as subject matter expert for our public cloud provider to support the Enterprise Imaging portfolio of cloud products, including sizing of cloud resources, cost-effective utilization of cloud compute, storage and communication.  
• Drive consistency and innovation in the use of cloud technology across Enterprise Imaging cloud solutions

• Serve as a point of contact to bring vendor partners into activities with key customers as necessary

   

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:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager / Product Owner
• Expertise in cloud resource (compute, storage, network) optimization, capacity planning, cost effective solutions to manage multi-tenant systems in the public cloud
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Successful track record of developing products within deadlines
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience effectively managing products through key stages of the lifecycle in a regulated industry
• Experience delivering IT infrastructure solutions to the healthcare provider market
• Experience evaluating public cloud infrastructure capabilities for use in cloud-native SaaS products. Specific experience with Google Cloud Platform is highly preferred
• Knowledge of dynamic scaling, multitenancy, and solutions delivering performance at scale in the public cloud environment

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

The salary range for Canada residents is $102,000 to $211,800 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

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.