Digital Product Owner – Remote

At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

 

This role is an individual contributor responsible for executing against the digital product strategy and vision outlined by the Product Management team for our Medicare online shopping experiences. You will work with key business and technical stakeholders to define, document, and prioritize new digital products and existing digital product enhancements. Manage priorities and obstacles. Escalate issues. Share responsibility with scrum team on delivering high quality product launches and enhancements. Work closely with technical team. Ensure legal and regulatory compliance.

 

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

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Complete pre-sprint planning activities, working with the Digital Product Manager and Digital Product Analyst
• Collaborate with Scrum Master for sprint & release planning, create and maintain a robust backlog, set daily stand-up meetings, weekly grooming sessions, and retrospective
• Feature creation, including providing supportive information, articulating definitions (acceptance criteria) and requirements to assist the team(s) with feature sizing and overall development
• User Story creation to provide detailed information to define acceptance criteria and ensure seamless handoff to scrum team
• Attend daily scrum calls to monitor each phase of the product development cycle, prioritize defects, rely important information to scrum team, assist to any questions/unknowns that appear, review test scripts, participate in testing efforts with QA&E and provide final sign off that team user stories meet the given acceptance criteria
• Set, invite, and lead digital product demos to key stakeholders
• Communicate any business process changes, escalations, blockers, delays to stakeholders
• Participate in post release testing (PAT) & Post Health Checks

 

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:

• 1+ years of experience in agile teams
• 1+ years in ecommerce and/or digital role
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize deliverables
• Proven organizational skills with ability to be flexible and work with ambiguity 
• Proven excellent communication skills

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Product Analyst, Scrum Master or other agile methodology positions 
• 2+ years of experience working in healthcare or insurance
• Digital product or sales experience
  
• Agile experience
  

 

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

 

The salary range for this role is $71,600 to $140,600 annually based on full-time employment. 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.