Lead Tech Product Manager, Platform AI Products - Minneapolis, MN

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. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Product Management to lead and scale product capabilities across our healthcare payer technology portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of business strategy, customer experience, data, and engineering, and is critical to translating customer and market insights into high impact, scalable products.

The ideal candidate is a trusted product leader who can drive product strategy and execution, influence across business and technology teams, and build strong product talent. This role requires deep experience managing complex product ecosystems, balancing competing priorities, and operating effectively in a regulated healthcare environment.

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:

• Product Strategy & Customer Value

• Partner with product managers, business stakeholders, and customers to capture Voice of Customer (VOC) and translate insights into product capabilities and jobs to be done

• Drive product strategy through clear articulation of vision, value proposition, and strategic and feature roadmaps

• Create and communicate compelling value propositions through internal marketing and stakeholder communications

• Ensure all features and initiatives are clearly tied to OKRs and business outcomes

• Manage complex requirements and continuously refine products based on evolving business goals, market needs, and customer feedback

• Product Execution & Delivery

• Oversee prioritization and trade off decisions, balancing customer experience, business requirements, technical constraints, performance, and operational needs

• Decompose high level capabilities into features, epics, and user stories that are clear, actionable, and measurable

• Partner closely with engineering teams to define requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria

• Support product backlog management and prioritization across scrum and feature teams

• Drive feature level budgets and ensure efficient use of resources

• Support integration testing, automation practices, and DevOps aligned delivery models

• Technical & Domain Expertise

• Maintain a strong understanding of end to end solutions, including system integrations and data flows

• Understand feature impacts and dependencies across platforms and portfolios

• Actively advance understanding of the product operating model and product culture across teams

• Demonstrate working knowledge of modern product and delivery tools such as Aha, Rally, GitHub, and DevOps practices

• Effectively balance the needs of operations, data, and engineering teams

• Stakeholder Leadership & Influence

• Serve as a credible and trusted partner to senior business and technology leaders

• Speak fluently to both technical and non technical audiences across teams and levels

• Lead complex, cross functional discussions and drive alignment through fact based, customer centric decision making

• Diffuse conflict and drive consensus by focusing on the greater good of the product and customer needs

• Anticipate stakeholder needs by preparing options, trade offs, and recommendations in advance

• People Leadership & Talent Development

• Provide situational coaching and support to other product managers and product teams

• Positively influence product outcomes through mentorship and collaboration

• Actively attract, assess, and hire top product talent using a calibrated bar for excellence

• Contribute to hiring decisions and leverage professional networks to identify qualified candidates

• Train and mentor junior interviewers through shadowing and best practice guidance

• Foster a culture of transparency, growth mindset, and continuous learning

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 Product Management, with significant experience in technical or platform products
• Experience as a Product Manager supporting Data Science, Software applications, and / or AI projects
• Solid experience working with engineering, data, and architecture teams
• Experience with Agile delivery models and product management tooling (Aha, Rally, GitHub, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex product portfolios and cross team dependencies
• Proven success driving product strategy, roadmaps, and execution at scale
• Ability to work onsite in Minneapolis per Optum's hybrid policy

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in US Healthcare Payer domain (claims, eligibility, care management, provider data, analytics, etc.)
• Experience scaling product organizations or leading through transformation
• Exposure to data platforms, analytics products, or AI/ML enabled solutions
• Familiarity with regulated environments and compliance driven product delivery

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 $112,700 to $193,200 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.