Director, Product Management

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. 

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum. 

As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.

The Director, Product Management, within Prospective risk and quality services portfolio is vital to our success and drive the future growth. You will work with cross functional leaders across Product, Operations, Finance, Marketing and Sales to deliver on market requirements. You will join an elite team of product managers to lead large projects and play a pivotal role in developing and enhancing products.   

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities of the Director, Product Management: 

• Establish a long-term product portfolio vision and strategy, informed by customer and business needs
• Analyze market requirements, regulatory changes, and customer trends and propose new product ideas
• Partner with leaders and stakeholders to regularly drive alignment, secure resources and overcome impediments
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Client Implementation teams to identify and prioritize product opportunities that drive business growth and customer satisfaction
• Lead market research activities to drive competitive positioning for existing products and defining new products
• Oversee the execution of short- and long-term product strategies to drive performance outcomes such as membership growth, increased revenue, competitive positioning, consumer experience and performance quality
• Build tools and processes to measure product performance against expectations and facilitate or influence changes to product strategy and features to improve results 
• Work with internal and external business partners to ensure successful product launches and improvements, including management and accountability for meeting product performance, cost and timeliness  
• Represent products to key internal and market-based constituents, including presentations in small or large group forums
• Drive alignment across product leaders in the enterprise towards developing common, reusable capabilities and drive enterprise products efficiencies
• Actively collaborate with cross functional teams to drive prioritization and alignments to deliver committed product roadmap items
• Adapt to changing organizational priorities and drive product strategy changes while ensuring client commitments

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Director, Product Management: 

• Bachelor’s degree
• Proven track record of managing the full product lifecycle in a Product Manager role, including defining and managing product roadmaps
• Experience with Healthcare data domains
• Strong knowledge of Agile software development practices
• Experience working collaboratively with cross functional teams
• Experience successfully launching at least one new product OR commercializing an existing internal product

Preferred Qualifications of the Director, Product Management: 

• Experience incorporating AI features into a product
• Subject Matter Expertise in the Healthcare Risk Adjustment & Quality space
• Master’s degree
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) or other relevant certifications.

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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.