Sr. Digital Product Manager - Remote

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Our mission is to make data trustworthy and actionable so teams can deliver smarter consumer experiences. We are evolving the Experience Data Platform to unify fragmented data and enable AI-ready, real-time activation that simplifies and personalizes healthcare. This role plays a key part in delivering capabilities partners can adopt quickly and operate with confidence. You will thrive here if you enjoy complex problems, cross-functional collaboration, and visible impact.

In addition, this role requires hands-on experience working with Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), specifically publishing data, managing datasets, and building/maintaining AEP schemas using XDM standards.

Reporting to the Director, Data Strategy & Stewardship, the Sr. Digital Product Manager is an individual contributor who turns business needs and data strategy into shippable capabilities on the Experience Data Platform. Embedded with an assigned engineering pod, they lead discovery, define features and epics for one or more data product areas, and partner with the Lead Digital Product Manager to translate business needs into clear, prioritized work.

The Sr. Digital Product Manager manages the product backlog and end-to-end delivery for their assigned epics and features with their engineering pod. Working in an Agile Scrum environment, they lead key ceremonies, coordinate with Engineering and other delivery teams, and ensure high-quality, on-time releases that meet business, technical, and compliance standards.

Success in this role requires solid product management skills, experience with agile engineering teams, and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical partners. The Sr. Digital Product Manager balances trade-offs between scope, timing, and quality, contributes to roadmap planning, and maintains transparency and alignment across stakeholders.

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:

• Own the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) roadmap, backlog, and delivery cycles across enterprise teams
• Lead the planning, governance, and evolution of AEP schemas in partnership with Data & Analytics, governance committees and downstream activation teams
• Define, operationalize, and optimize scalable audience and segment strategies to support personalization, measurement, and cross‑channel activation
• Translate business needs in to clear AEP use cases by partnering closely with Product Leads, Marketing Operations, Customer Journey teams, and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with AJO (Journey Orchestration) and CJA (Customer Journey Analytics) product managers to ensure alignment on audiences, data readiness, and activation workflows
• Partner with Data Engineering to ensure accurate data publishing, high data quality, and effective identity stitching between our Experience Evolution platform and AEP
• Facilitate user feedback loops, create documentation, and support onboarding across product, business, and technical teams
• Monitor platform performance and usage metrics, providing insights and driving adoption across business units and international markets
• Write and refine epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria that guide the engineering pod and embed data quality, compliance, and performance requirements
• Serve as Product Owner for the assigned engineering pod, managing backlog prioritization, sprint planning, and predictable delivery
• Lead and participate in Agile ceremonies, ensuring visibility into progress, decisions, risks, and delivery impacts
• Track and proactively resolve delivery milestones, dependencies, blockers, and risks to ensure transparency and alignment with capability roadmaps
• Incorporate feedback from stakeholders, end users, and experiments (e.g., pilots, A/B tests) into ongoing backlog and sprint planning
• Perform other duties as assigned

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:

• 4+ years of demonstrated Product Owner experience in Agile/Scrum (or equivalent), including end-to-end delivery, backlog ownership, and sprint planning in complex environments
• Demonstrated experience serving as Product Owner for an embedded engineering pod (or equivalent), driving prioritization and managing delivery trade-offs
• Demonstrated experience translating business needs and user insights into epics, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria
• Demonstrated experience partnering across Architecture, Engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities
• Demonstrated solid written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to drive alignment across technical and non-technical teams and provide executive-ready updates
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities while maintaining delivery focus and accountability
• Demonstrated solid analytical and problem-solving skills, using data and metrics to assess performance and inform decisions
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with AEP schema design and segment building
• Experience analyzing and synthesizing data to inform roadmap priorities, identify risks/opportunities, and recommend actions
• Experience using product and delivery tooling (e.g., Aha!, Rally, or similar) to manage work, dependencies, and delivery reporting
• Understanding of data privacy and consent management frameworks
• Familiarity with Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO) and Customer Journey Analytics (CJA)
• Familiarity leveraging AI-enabled tools to accelerate analysis, reporting, and/or product workflow (e.g., automated insights, anomaly detection, AI-assisted documentation)

*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.