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 optimized. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together

If you believe that there's always a better way to do business, make your way to UnitedHealth Group. Join us in our mission to change the landscape of the health care industry and its future. To do that, we need to be smart about the business of health care. That's where you come in.

In this role you will represent the voice of the business by performing research, design, and development, translating complex business requirements into actionable features, user stories and changes. This is a cross-functional liaison role that reviews requirements and performance against expectations and coordinates/facilitates or influences changes to product to achieve optimal performance. You will work with internal and external business partners to recommend future directions, respond to inquiries, and ensure alignment to business goals. Positions in this function are accountable for delivering sustainable, financially sound solutions that solve a specific problem and enable successful external product delivery and/or internal business function performance, while driving adoption with internal business clients and define future capability direction that supports business strategy and new opportunities.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Facilitates stakeholder meetings with line-of-business operational managers to ensure platform direction for each area and manages documenting changes as needed
• Create user stories/requirements, work with stakeholders to identify ROI/business value; leads prioritization of backlog
• Provide high quality support and documentation for all users of the Banking platforms
• Collaborate with System Analysts and architecture to identify solutions to meet business requirements and understand business impact of technical decisions
• Provide explanations and information to Agile teams, stakeholders, managers
• Prepares and presents information to leadership for next steps and decision making
• Actively participate in Agile team processes and help implement process changes related to Agile
• Represents business interests and requirements on the Agile teams
• Lead, Build and maintain a backlog/inventory of system and business requirements to quickly react to additional enhancement capacity
• Provides directions to business analysts and IT resources within the Agile team to ensure highest value is delivered
• Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Banking systems (SIFS, OFIN, GEFT)
• High-level knowledge of the business process
• Liaise with solution architects, developers, and QA testers throughout the project lifecycle
• Focus on program / project budgets and timelines
• Ensure test plans thoroughly test all functionality (existing and new)
• Assist in resolving production issues
• Maintain collaborative working relationships with project leadership, business and application teams

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:

• 5+ years of experience as a capability/process owner/manager, business/product analyst, or in related field supporting process improvement
• Experience of managing business partners in a matrix organization
• Experience working directly with senior level business stakeholders
• Solid working knowledge of how to execute on project deliverables in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to lead a team and influence individuals outside of one's direct reporting structure
• Proven to drives consistency and efficiencies on implementation execution, demonstrates professional competence, works with minimal supervision and is self-motivated and reliable
• Proven ability to develop solid networks and ensure collaboration and consensus building
• Proven ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences
• Proven ability to work with business process owners and identify solutions that support business process improvements
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize deliverables

Preferred Qualification:

• IT development (i.e. Cobol)

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

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

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.    

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.      

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.