Senior Product Manager, Core Capabilities - Remote

UnitedHealthcare is focused on simplifying the health care experience and creating healthier communities. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to manage the core platform capabilities strategy and deliver shippable solutions on the Experience Data Platform, collaborating closely with engineering teams and ensuring high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Write and refine epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria that guide the assigned Core Capabilities engineering pod and reflect quality, governance, cost, and compliance 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 the assigned pod, managing the product backlog and sprint planning to ensure aligned, consistent delivery of core capabilities
• Support creation and refinement of capability roadmaps by providing delivery insights, risks, and recommendations based on 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
• Partner with Engineering lead to calibrate sprint load using historical velocity, accurate story point hygiene, and team capacity (holidays, interrupts), and adjust mid sprint when risk materializes
• Owner of Definition of Ready (DoR). Ensure every story/feature meets a documented DoR (clear scope, dependencies identified, test approach, data requirements, and acceptance criteria) before it can be planned
• Own Definition of Done. Verify each story/feature satisfies DoD (tests passed, documentation updated, telemetry added, quality checks met, release notes prepared) prior to completion
• Support and maintain documentation stewardship. Keep feature specs, data flow diagrams, decision logs, and user guides current in the team's knowledge base as part of DoD
• Publish concise release notes and stakeholder updates (what changed, why it matters, how to validate, where to get help) before enabling features
• Act as final functional/data quality signoff at the pod level. Explicitly validating data accuracy, lineage, performance SLOs, and compliance checks before feature release
• Drive delivery across capability domains such as TCPA Orchestrator, Attribution, PSC, etc., in close collaboration with the Engineering pod and Architecture
• Ensure alignment between business needs and technical execution throughout the product lifecycle by serving as the day-to-day product contact for the pod
• Track and actively optimize key delivery milestones, dependencies, blockers, and risks to maintain visibility into capability roadmaps and upcoming releases
• Analyze delivery and product usage metrics; prepare simple reports or dashboards and recommend improvements to flow, quality, and stakeholder experience
• Incorporate feedback from stakeholders and end users into backlog refinement and future sprint planning for the pod
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of agile practices and product management processes within the Core Capabilities 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

Requirements:

• 4+ years of demonstrated Product Owner experience in Agile/Scrum (or equivalent), including end-to-end delivery, backlog ownership, and sprint planning in complex environment
• 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
• Proven 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
• Proven 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
• 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
• Demonstrated familiarity leveraging AI-enabled tools to accelerate analysis, reporting, and/or product workflow (e.g., automated insights, anomaly detection, AI-assisted documentation)