Product Owner, Hybrid – Eden Prairie, MN

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 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.

Quality at UnitedHealth Group means striving for excellence in everything we do in order to help us achieve our Mission. Simply put, it’s in our DNA and why we’re in business — to help people. Our Mission serves as our why; our Values unite us around how we will achieve it. Because when we follow our Mission and live our Values, we deliver Quality.   

 

 

Optum is looking for an experienced, curious and self-motivated individual to join a team that will be responsible for Marketing transformation as we move from several legacy systems onto an enterprise marketing ecosystem. Partnering with technical teams and the business, they will provide subject matter expertise and build solid relationships with our customers and internal stakeholders.  

The successful candidate will contribute bringing solutions to the market and support our organization during product development and operations. We are looking for people who can collaborate cross-functionally, demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, have proven product management experience, and the ability to operate flexibly in a rapidly changing work environment.

The ideal candidate will:

• Embrace ambiguity and changing priorities, and thrive in a dynamic environment while juggling multiple concurrent projects
• Solid relationship-building and project management skills; able to navigate through highly matrixed teams to find the right contacts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to lead by influence in a quasi-technical role
• Curious and excited to learn new things every day and unafraid to ask questions to gain understanding
• Growth mindset, sharp analytical and creative problem-solving skills, and the ability to handle situations with humor and patience

Primary Responsibilities:

• Drive the evolution of an enterprise, real-time, consumer communications data infrastructure with the goal of enabling an exceptional consumer experience
• Partner with key stakeholders in business, IT, and program/project management; build relationships across the organization to ensure initiatives are coordinated; anticipate and plan for upstream/downstream impacts
• Represents the business and consumers – understands business requirements and ensures work is completed accurately and on-time in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment
• Review and approve business data requirements in Source to Target or Business Requirements Document
• Translate business requirements into Agile Strategic Themes, Capabilities, Features, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria for migrations, new requests, enhancements, and production issues
• Prioritize the Agile backlog and clarify goals and roadmaps; participate in PI Planning sessions
• Accept completed Features and User Stories that meet Definition of Done
• Drive features through the refinement, solutioning, and development process in collaboration with Business/Data Analysts, Tech PO, domain and data source SMEs, IT architects and developers, and program/project management
• Responsible for work items from assignment through deployment and production support
• Remove roadblocks and escalate issues as needed
• Partner with Business/Data Analyst, participate in working sessions, and collaborate with them to refine features and user stories
• Communication and knowledge sharing across team and partners for new/changed capabilities

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:

Before applying, please ensure each of these experiences are stated clearly on your resume under each applicable employer entry. 

• 7+ years professional experience in technology, marketing, or health care
• 4+ years as an Agile product owner with experience writing features and user stories and following the development process through user story acceptance
• 3+ years of experience managing or supporting data related projects 
• Ability to attend daily meetings at 8:00 AM US Central time (schedule is flexible otherwise)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Product management certification
• Adobe Experience Platform or other Martech stack experience
• Experience using Rally (CA Agile)
• Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of data solutions, including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g. dashboards, APIs, real time alerts, etc.
• Experience working with internal and external stakeholders to collect business, functional and technical requirements
• Experience with documenting processes and practices, often in accepted project methodology artifacts, while effectively prioritizing multiple tasks, priorities, projects, and deadlines
• Working knowledge of health care management industry products/services and operations
• Proven to be self-motivated problem solver who isn’t afraid to take ownership to drive work forward

Total Compensation. As part of your total compensation package, which includes base, bonus opportunity, PTO and holiday pay, you will also receive these benefits at these rates, not to mention a remote work opportunity and healthy work/life balance. 

 

UHG Benefits  http://uhg.hr/uhgbenefits  

 

Benefits pricing 

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.