Senior Technical Product Manager

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.  

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will translate business objectives and technical requirements into clear system functionality and deliverable scope. You will guide features through the full development lifecycle, leveraging software development methodologies, AI tools, and strong documentation practices while ensuring quality, clarity, and alignment with stakeholder needs. You will partner closely with your scrum team, provide demos, review functionality for acceptance, and mentor junior TPOs to support both team growth and product excellence.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyze, and translate business and technical objectives into clear system functional requirements and product scope
• Apply appropriate software development methodologies and best practices throughout the product lifecycle
• Leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, requirement analysis, documentation quality, and workflow efficiency
• Understand and apply critical judgement whether AI driven outputs are usable
• Create high quality documentation for features, capabilities, and user stories, ensuring clarity and alignment with business needs
• Own features end to end, guiding them through discovery, development, testing, and release
• Review and accept completed functionality to ensure it meets defined requirements, quality standards, and user value
• Ensure effective communication across teams regarding feature status, impacts, risks, and delivery timelines
• Deliver stakeholder demos and participate in sprint demos to showcase work in progress and completed functionality
• Own designated product capabilities, ensuring deep understanding of their design, dependencies, and how proposed changes impact performance, integrity, and quality
• Partner with business users and technical teams to map business processes and design cost effective system solutions
• Review, evaluate, and influence solutions to ensure they align with enterprise standards, architectural guidelines, and long term product strategy
• Support enhancement, maintenance, and new development efforts across applications, systems, and platforms
• Develop innovative approaches for solving product challenges and improving delivery processes

• Serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader in Technical Product Ownership, influencing strategy and team performance

• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a liaison between business and technology organizations and the ability to communicate effectively with both and champion the needs of both, such as a product owner, quality engineer, or tech lead, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience analyzing the current business, detecting critical deficiencies, and recommending solutions for improvement, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience in software SDLC, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of American Health Care IT experience, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in driving solutions that map to the global target architecture, standards, and roadmaps in a distributed hardware, operating systems, and cloud computing, or equivalent experience
• Experience driving toward clarity in feature requirements, objectives, and high quality acceptance criteria

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• American Health Care IT experience: ex: EHR, Practice Management, Interface Engines, HL7, CDA, or DICOM
• Systems integration projects
• Thrives in a high-velocity environment, delivering high quality output
• Loves understanding, championing, and documenting the business and technical objectives

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.