Eden Prairie or Washington D.C. Hybrid USD 134,600 - 230,800 Yearly

Optum Tech (UnitedHealth Group) is hiring a Director of Product

Responsibilities

  • Leads the strategic direction of the interoperability product portfolio and manages profit and loss, making data-driven decisions on investment, maintenance, or retirement of offerings.
  • Demonstrates mastery of modern technical product management methodologies and industry frameworks.
  • Works closely with key stakeholders to define and execute strategic roadmaps focused on measurable business outcomes.
  • Applies strategic foresight to advance product maturity and organizational capability.
  • Understands end-to-end workflows across products and business units, leveraging insights from successful implementations.
  • Conducts competitive intelligence and market analysis, including identification of untapped opportunities, to guide investment decisions.
  • Creates targeted value propositions and positioning strategies by customer segment, aligning product development with buyer behavior.
  • Maintains deep expertise in payer and provider markets, including user needs, customer profiles, and industry dynamics.
  • Guides prioritization across product development pipelines, backlogs, and sprint planning through influence and collaboration.
  • Shapes and promotes clear acceptance criteria and ensures team-wide alignment on delivery standards.
  • Collaborates with business and engineering leads to define, track, and evaluate OKRs.
  • Defines performance metrics and accountability structures that link product decisions to customer problems and validate results.
  • Drives evidence-based product decisions by establishing learning goals, measurement strategies, and experimentation frameworks.
  • Prepares financial justifications and funding proposals, balancing trade-offs across the portfolio for optimal resource allocation.
  • Ensures product performance meets market expectations and adjusts portfolio strategy to enhance competitiveness and customer alignment.
  • Ensures the right problems are addressed effectively, with ownership over improving customer experience metrics such as Net Promoter Score.
  • Translates product vision into actionable designs and scalable technical architectures, setting requirements that support iterative delivery.
  • Tracks emerging technology trends and advises on digital innovations to strengthen portfolio positioning.
  • Enforces adherence to established architectural standards and design best practices.
  • Promotes reuse of components and capabilities across product lines to increase efficiency.
  • Coordinates across teams to reduce duplication and enhance synergy in product development.
  • Aligns engineering and architecture teams with product objectives through close collaboration with delivery leadership.
  • Balances business demands with technical enablers to evolve platform capabilities and reduce technical debt.
  • Provides strategic input on architectural transitions, technical debt management, and system design evolution.
  • Understands engineering workflows, constraints, and delivery processes to effectively connect technical efforts with business and product goals.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Performance-based incentives and employee recognition initiatives
  • Opportunities for equity and stock participation
  • Employer contributions to 401k retirement plans

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Cross-functional teams

Other

  • All remote employees must comply with the organization's Telecommuter Policy.
  • Employment is contingent upon passing a drug screening.
  • The company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and evaluates candidates without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics under applicable laws.
  • Our mission is to improve health and healthcare accessibility for all, with a focus on reducing disparities and advancing equitable outcomes for underserved populations.
Required Skills
SMART on FHIREMR APIsHIE/ADT integrationsProduct ManagementHealthcare TechnologySaaS Product DevelopmentEMR IntegrationsInteroperabilityPopulation Health ManagementValue-Based CareRoadmap CreationCross-functional Leadership payerprovider userscustomersmarket segmentsknowledge of business use casessolione or more Agile Product Development to
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Optum Tech (UnitedHealth Group)
Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges.
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Job Details
Department Product Management
Category product
Posted 3 months ago