Principal Technical Product Manager – Remote

UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
 

In this Lead Technology Product Manager role, not only will you be responsible for the development, communication, and implementation of the organization’s cloud security product strategy, but you will passionately lead and simplify our cloud security adoption user experience.  

 

The Principal Technical Product Manager is responsible for multiple value streams.  The product manager manages and prioritizes the content produced by development teams to ensure it meets engineering, business and customer needs and continually searches for ways to improve efficiency. Product managers ensure that there is no disconnect between the tactical execution and customer needs. 

 

Have you been driving your organization to embrace a DevSecOps culture? Do you enjoy moving IT organizations towards a modernized suite of security solutions? Bring us your passion and energy for developing top – notch cloud-based security solutions, and you will be rewarded with opportunities and challenge!  
 

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Drive product vision and strategy roadmap for security transformation 
• Lead the product across its entire lifecycle using industry best practices – performance, expansion, financial health, roadmap, and end-of-life
• Serve as security product champion to guide leadership-level alignment across the enterprise 
• Apply security domain expertise to credibly represent, manage and engage with business(es)
• Partner with stakeholders to enable successful development, delivery, and adoption of technology solutions
• Know the market, to effectively identify and frame new technology products within the cloud security domain
• Diffuse conflict by driving consensus based in the greater good of the product
• Guide the team through Program Increment (PI) planning events; including capacity planning, prioritization, refinement, and scheduling of work 

 

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 or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of technology-powered product solution delivery and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery experience
• 5+ years in a role that made decisions across an enterprise, and not just one or two business units
• Demonstrated experience navigating and delivering solutions in Fortune 50-sized organizations
• Proven experience influencing and driving prioritization with security and technology stakeholders across the Enterprise
• Demonstrated ability to ensure industry standard architecture and design patterns are followed
• Ability to influence “Definition of Done” and ensure it is clearly understood and articulated to stakeholders across the enterprise
• Negotiates win-win solutions across teams and lines of business (cross application / cross portfolio)
• Effectively communicates and builds relationship across multiple products teams, stakeholders, and leadership

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Acumen with product management tools like Aha, Rally, GitHub, and an understanding of DevOps
• Basic knowledge of application security capabilities (ex: static, dynamic, secrets, open source)
• Basic knowledge of how APIs function and how to secure them
• Conceptual understanding of AI and large language models  
• Basic knowledge of “shift left” CI/CD automation techniques and security tools
• Conceptual understanding of public cloud virtual machines and container solution offerings (Any Cloud Service Provider. (Preferred- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes and/or Docker Containers
• Basic understanding of securing Infrastructure as Code
• Ability to understand, document and describe expected outcomes, measure business value delivered, and show empathy for user experience

 

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

 

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $122,100 to $234,700 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.  

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. 

 

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.   

 

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.