Optum is focused on improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. The Sr. Technical Product Manager will define and support initiatives, act as a liaison between teams, and drive the vision for future product releases.
Responsibilities:
- Defines and supports cross-portfolio initiatives and capabilities from specific business problems / market needs; all initiatives tracked
- Drives creation of strategic themes (capabilities) to define and roadmap long running initiatives
- Ability to work across multiple products to identify synergies
- Act as the liaison between Business, Engineering Teams, and project management groups
- Build trust and relationship through transparency using roadmap
- Drives vision and content of future releases by decomposing work in to features and user stories and aligning appropriately in backlog in accordance with high level product strategy
- Define & implement best practices
Requirements:
- 5+ years of product management, product development or equivalent work experience preferably in Health care and claims data
- 5+ years of experience with requirements management, project management, and complex projects and activities
- Knowledge of product management roles and responsibilities
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Experience in delivery of software solutions, understanding of all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Working knowledge of databases, database structures, xml, json
- Healthcare experience
- Experience working with test plans and test cases
- Cloud experience
- Data Strategy
- Self-motivated and able to work with little direct supervision and drive results with disciplined follow-through
- Solid strategic thinking and business acumen with the ability to align people, strategies, and recommendations with business objectives
- Solid analytic, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent presentation and communication skills with ability to describe data/capability stories and explain value to stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in an ambiguous and matrixed environment
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and influence others
- Demonstrated ability to identify, investigate, solve, and implement solutions to issues