Job Description

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.

Lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of AI-native healthcare products that leverage agentic AI, automation, and advanced analytics to solve complex business problems. Own product execution end-to-end by partnering with business, engineering, UX, AI/ML, and operations teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Own product vision, roadmap, backlog, and release execution
• Translate business needs into capabilities, features, and technical requirements
• Drive system, process, and data analysis to identify product opportunities
• Partner with engineering, UX, and AI/ML teams to build scalable AI-driven solutions
• Define success metrics, evaluation frameworks, and governance for agentic AI products
• Lead agile execution, stakeholder demos, and roadmap communications
• Foster innovation, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous value delivery
• 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:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years in Product Management, Product Ownership, or Technology Delivery
• Experience with AI based product is mandatory
• Proven experience shipping AI-native or agentic products involving orchestration, tool use, retrieval, and autonomous decision-making
• Experience with AI-native development practices and human-in-the-loop systems
• Proven solid expertise in backlog management, user stories, Agile delivery, and tools such as Jira, Rally, Azure DevOps, or Aha!
• Proven technical depth across APIs, cloud platforms, data architectures, and enterprise systems
• Proven solid analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills
• Proven excellent communication and ability to influence across a matrixed organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA, or equivalent technical/business qualifications
• Experience in US Healthcare IT products strategy and development
• Experience working with AI/ML, Data Science, or Automation teams
• Experience collaborating across US and India teams

Ideal Candidate

A technically strong product leader who can bridge business strategy and engineering execution, harness AI to solve healthcare challenges, and consistently deliver impactful business outcomes.

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.