Senior 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.  

The Senior Manager, Technology Product Management will support strategic technology investments and enterprise capabilities across Optum Rx. This role combines technical product management, portfolio and program leadership, business analysis, financial acumen, governance, and executive reporting.

The successful candidate will partner with business leaders, enterprise capability teams, architects, engineering teams, finance partners, and Enterprise AI teams to evaluate use cases, develop integrated execution roadmaps, drive adoption, track benefit realization, manage AI cost transparency, and deliver executive-level visibility into technology investments and business value.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyze, and translate business and technical requirements across multiple business segments into product capabilities, roadmaps, funding recommendations, and actionable delivery plans
• Partner with business, technology, architecture, finance, Enterprise AI, and enterprise capability teams to evaluate use cases, assess business impact, identify dependencies, and support strategic technology investments
• Facilitate capability intake, impact assessment, prioritization, governance reviews, funding discussions, and cross-functional decision-making to ensure investments align with business priorities and enterprise strategy
• Develop and maintain integrated roadmaps, milestones, risks, dependencies, and adoption plans across multiple business segments, teams, and enterprise capabilities
• Coordinate execution and adoption activities across business, enterprise, and technology teams to ensure alignment to strategic objectives and successful delivery
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from capability intake through funding, roadmap execution, adoption, consumption, and benefit realization, ensuring leadership has visibility into delivered business value
• Create and maintain product documentation, business cases, user stories, stakeholder communications, executive presentations, and governance materials
• Track capability adoption, business outcomes, benefit realization, and portfolio health across multiple business segments to ensure investments deliver measurable value
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into roadmap execution, funding, adoption, realized benefits, AI consumption, and business segment P&L impacts
• Serve as the primary liaison between Enterprise AI, Finance, business stakeholders, and engineering teams for AI consumption and cost management. Translate enterprise AI funding models, chargeback methodologies, and consumption metrics into actionable financial and forecasting insights for business and technology teams. Support AI cost forecasting, investment planning, adoption tracking, and optimization efforts
• Leverage Agile methodologies and AI-enabled tools to improve product delivery, reporting, operational efficiency, and decision-making
• Provide executive-level updates, recommendations, and insights to business and technology leadership teams
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, Finance, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in Technology Product Management, Technical Program Management, Portfolio Management, or related technology leadership roles
• Experience coordinating complex initiatives across business, technology, architecture, finance, and enterprise stakeholders
• Experience developing integrated roadmaps, managing dependencies, and driving cross-functional execution
• Experience with executive reporting, dashboard development, governance processes, and data-driven decision making
• Experience working with AI consumption-based pricing models, forecasting, chargeback methodologies, cloud cost management, or FinOps practices
• Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, SDLC, and enterprise technology delivery
• Demonstrated solid analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated financial acumen, including experience supporting business cases, investment planning, forecasting, cost analysis, benefit realization, or technology financial management

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or equivalent business and financial management experience
• Healthcare, PBM, payer, or enterprise platform experience
• Experience with portfolio governance, adoption management, benefit realization, or technology financial management
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Excel, SQL, or similar reporting and analytics tools
• Knowledge of AI/Generative AI platforms, enterprise AI services, and consumption-based cost models

Key Success Measures

• Integrated enterprise and business adoption roadmaps established across key capabilities and business segments
• Improved visibility into capability adoption, realized benefits, portfolio performance, and business value
• Executive dashboards that connect investment, delivery, adoption, consumption, realized benefits, and business segment P&L impacts
• Increased transparency, governance, and forecasting accuracy for AI consumption costs
• Consistent end-to-end traceability from capability intake through adoption and benefit realization
• Effective partnership between Enterprise AI, Finance, business stakeholders, and engineering teams resulting in improved planning, forecasting, and value realization

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.