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.
Consumer digital is looking for a senior technical product manager to guide the planning, execution, and successful delivery of initiatives across UHC's entire digital membership. Our digital experiences ensure that members find care at the right place, at the right time, with a full understanding of the impact against their benefits. The Senior Technical Product Manager is a strategic leader responsible for driving the execution of complex technical products. This role bridges the gap between engineering teams and business stakeholders, ensuring products are innovative, scalable, and delivered on time and with quality.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and business teams to define high-level solutions, data flows, and architectural decisions. Build solid relationships between stakeholders to remove obstacles and resolve conflicts
• Backlog & Prioritization: Own and manage the product backlog across iOS, Android, and web platforms, ensuring user stories and tasks are prioritized based on business value, customer needs, and technical feasibility. Tie work items directly to OKRs and business objectives
• Product Delivery: Lead cross-functional teams through the product development lifecycle, from conception to launch and beyond. Ensure products meet quality standards, acceptance criteria, and deliver measurable outcomes
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous feedback loops to ensure teams remain focused on customer needs. Refine product backlog, participate in release planning, and facilitate agile ceremonies
• AI-Driven: Lead the development of advanced AI-powered solutions, enhancing how members discover and interact with their healthcare providers. Review prototypes for new AI-powered features and analyze new opportunities within the product against the latest technology trends. Collaborate with UX research to validate the latest AI concepts. Partner with AI and ML teams to develop best in class conversational AI tools

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:

• 10+ years of experience in technical product management
• Experience collaborating and leading across multiple partner teams with solid systems thinking
• Solid knowledge of LLM and data product lifecycle, including discovery, data processing, model development, deployment, and monitoring. Understand how to interact with LLMs through APIs, fine-tune them for specific tasks, and optimize their performance.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high stakes timelines in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or above Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field
• Experience with working with global teams
• Solid technical acumen with the ability to work closely with AI/ML teams and understand model capabilities and limitations

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.
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.