Agile Product Owner, Optum Rx Workers' Compensation – Remote

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.

 

Are you an analytical and creative thinker? Do you look at process and know you could make them better, faster, easier? Can you present complex ideas clearly to both technical and business audiences using your effective communication skills? If this sounds like you and you have a desire to learn and to continually develop new ways of delivering solutions to clients and internal stakeholders, then we have an opportunity for you to join our Workers’ Compensation  team as a Product Owner.

 

As the Product Owner, you will lead an agile team of developers and quality testers to design and develop, deliver, and enhance new or existing products for Optum’s Workers’ Compensation division.

 

Product Owners are the primarily liaison between the business and technology and are responsible for reviewing and assessing the value of prioritized business requests, working with subject matter experts to fully understand the concept or business need, and then translating those products and project ideas into technical stories for development and testing.

 

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

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with Strategy leadership to develop and deliver new products or enhancements on existing products
• Think strategically to translate a vision of customer/user experience to processes and requirements
• Interact with internal stakeholders and occasionally clients to understand and capture functional and technical requirements, translating business needs to technical needs
• Preparation of presentations with the inclusion of feasibility studies as well as proof of concept delivery
• Develop presentations and help facilitate decisions with a wide range of stakeholders each with different priorities
• Forecast revenue or savings opportunities associated with product development initiatives
• Review proposed priority list from ePRMO bi-weekly and participate in priority review with stakeholders
• Work with ePRMO to set/update stage for all accepted dev requests led by your team and ensure target and actual dates for milestones in Salesforce is accurate
• Support in project management for technology strategies and infrastructure projects — from design to development and implementation
• Troubleshooting critical issues and bring a calm presence to facilitate issue resolution
  Support the development of market and sales strategies and value proposition
• Serve as a strategic knowledge resource facilitating the delivery of capabilities and functionality to support long term Business and product objectives
• Manage cross-segment projects and initiatives that require problem solving, relationship building, influencing, and analyzing
• Navigate and influence multiple cross-functional teams in a complex, matrix work environment
• Partner with key functional areas to ensure high performance in all areas – operations, compliance, finance, reporting/measurement, etc.
• Build effective relationships with vendor partners, customers, product partners across Optum, and other internal stakeholder groups
• Write requirements/stories for all projects, creates acceptance criteria
• Support team during ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-up calls to track progress, and demonstrations of new functionality for each sprint to an audience of stakeholders across the organization

 

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:

• 3+ years of experience developing business requirements, reviewing technical design and validating testing results for IT development 
• 2+ years of experience managing/coordinating projects through entire project development life cycle, from idea through launch
• Experience communicating and presenting to/writing for c-level, vendor partners and/or clients, and articulating details based on audience
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Healthcare experience and/or workers’ compensation experience
• Proficiency in MS Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP certification
• EDI experience
• Experience in product development, including either tangible products, technology or virtual solutions
• Experience developing rules-based solutions
• Experience with .NET programming framework
• Experience using Rally agile software 
• Experience using Aha! product development software
• MS Access proficiency
• SQL proficiency
• Visio
• Microsoft Project
• Salesforce
• 360 Product 
• Proven solid problem solving and troubleshooting skills with experience exercising mature judgement

 

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

 

The salary range for this role is $89,800 to $176,700 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.