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.

Our mission is to make data trustworthy and actionable so teams can deliver smarter consumer experiences. We are evolving the Experience Data Platform to unify fragmented data and enable AI-ready, real-time activation that simplifies and personalizes healthcare. This role plays a key part in delivering capabilities partners can adopt quickly and operate with confidence. You will thrive here if you enjoy complex problems, cross-functional collaboration, and visible impact.

Reporting to the Director, Data Strategy & Stewardship, the Sr. Digital Product Manager is an individual contributor who turns business needs and data strategy into shippable capabilities on the Experience Data Platform. Embedded with an assigned engineering pod, they lead discovery, define features and epics for one or more data product areas, and partner with the Lead Digital Product Manager to translate business needs into clear, prioritized work.

The Sr. Digital Product Manager manages the product backlog and end-to-end delivery for their assigned epics and features with their engineering pod. Working in an Agile Scrum environment, they lead key ceremonies, coordinate with Engineering and other delivery teams, and ensure high-quality, on-time releases that meet business, technical, and compliance standards.

Success in this role requires strong product management skills, experience with agile engineering teams, and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical partners. The Sr. Digital Product Manager balances trade-offs between scope, timing, and quality, contributes to roadmap planning, and maintains transparency and alignment across stakeholders.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. 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:

• Write and refine epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria that guide the assigned engineering pod and reflect data quality, compliance, and performance requirements
• Partner with the Lead Digital Product Manager to translate strategy and roadmap into clear, prioritized work for the pod and related delivery teams
• Serve as product owner for an assigned engineering pod, managing the product backlog and sprint planning to ensure aligned, predictable delivery
• Support creation and refinement of product roadmaps by providing delivery insights, risks, and recommendations from the pod's work
• Lead and participate in agile ceremonies (e.g., backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives) with the pod, ensuring transparency across progress, risks, and decisions
• Drive delivery across data domains such as ingestion, publishing, and transformation with the pod, coordinating dependencies with other Engineering and Architecture teams
• Ensure alignment between business needs and technical execution throughout the product lifecycle by being the day-to-day product contact for the pod
• Track and actively optimize key delivery milestones, dependencies, blockers, and risks for the pod to maintain visibility into capability roadmaps and upcoming releases
• Incorporate feedback from stakeholders, end users, and experiments (e.g., pilots, A/B tests) into backlog refinement and future sprint planning
• Analyze delivery and product usage metrics; prepare simple reports or dashboards and recommend improvements to flow, quality, and customer or stakeholder experience
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of agile practices and product management processes within the Data Strategy & Stewardship team
• Serve as a resource to junior team members (where applicable) by sharing best practices and providing informal guidance when needed
• Perform other duties as assigned

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:

• Demonstrated experience serving as Product Owner for an embedded engineering pod (or equivalent), driving prioritization and managing delivery trade-offs
• Demonstrated experience translating business needs and user insights into epics, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria
• Demonstrated experience partnering across Architecture, Engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities
• Solid written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to drive alignment across technical and non-technical teams and provide executive-ready updates
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities while maintaining delivery focus and accountability
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, using data and metrics to assess performance and inform decisions
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with modern cloud data and analytics platforms (e.g., Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI/Tableau, Adobe Experience Platform)
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale consumer data platforms and data domains (e.g., ingestion, transformation, publishing)
• Experience analyzing and synthesizing data to inform roadmap priorities, identify risks/opportunities, and recommend actions
• Experience using product and delivery tooling (e.g., Aha!, Rally, or similar) to manage work, dependencies, and delivery reporting
• Familiarity leveraging AI-enabled tools to accelerate analysis, reporting, and/or product workflow (e.g., automated insights, anomaly detection, AI-assisted documentation)
• Experience working with AI-enabled, agentic, or automation-driven products, including translating business problems into use cases, requirements, guardrails, success measures, and prioritized product capabilities
• Familiarity with AI development lifecycle concepts and PRD generation, including rapid experimentation, prototyping, evaluation, testing, deployment, performance monitoring, and continuous optimization of AI-enabled capabilities

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

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.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.