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

This role is 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.  

Position background: This position is for a Digital Product owner that will be bridging the gap between business and development teams, ensuring that the digital product(s) or service(s) being built align with business goals and deliver value.  This role will co-manage a team of product owners, assisting improving product owner performance, increasing efficiency and agile maturity, continues innovation and improvement and overall retention and development of talent.

The Digital Product Owner will work with Insurance Solutions Digital Services scrum teams & quality assurance and technical experts as well as many business stakeholders, business owners, other digital product managers, Marketing team members, Tele-sales, and Call Center team members.  This product owner will interface with two scrum teams supporting five channels of Medicare Supplement OLE.

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: 

• 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 process changes, escalations, blockers, delays to appropriate stakeholders
• Participate in prerelease testing (PAT) & Post Health Checks
• Ensure that the products delivered meet the required quality standards, business goals, and customer expectations. Review product increments and provide feedback to teams for continuous improvement. Identify and implement process improvements to increase team velocity, streamline workflows, and reduce bottlenecks in product delivery
• Oversee release planning, ensuring that teams are on track to meet delivery deadlines and that products are launched with minimal disruption
• Proactively identify potential risks and dependencies within the product development process and work with teams to mitigate them. Act as the liaison between the product teams and stakeholders (business, technical, and leadership), managing expectations and ensuring effective communication

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:

• 6+ years of experience using Agile methodology
• 2+ years of experience in ecommerce and/or digital roles

• Experience with Agile software development processes.  Formal experience with one or more recognized Agile methodologies (Lean, SaFE, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Health care experience or experience in other interactive and digital industries such as retail and financial services or digital agencies
• Experience as a product owner or analyst that has documented requirements
• Experience working successfully in a large, matrixed organization
• Experience coordinating priorities and contributions of a network of stakeholders from across a large, diverse organization
• Experience delivering web experiences, both consumer and non-consumer facing, that meet user needs based on usability research, UX design and information architecture principles, and product management methodologies
• Experience working collaboratively at all levels and across business lines using influencing skills
• Proven organization skills with ability to be flexible and work with ambiguity
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize deliverables
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships to establish trust and credibility across a matrixed, cross-functional team
• Solid communication skills, including written, spoken, and presentation communications
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships to establish trust and credibility across a matrixed, cross-functional team
• Solid communication skills, including written, spoken, and presentation communications

*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.