Senior Director, Product & Portfolio Management - Remote

Optum is a health care technology organization developing solutions in data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. The Senior Director, Product & Portfolio Management will lead product strategy, portfolio governance, investment planning, prioritization, and value realization across the Utilization Management and Care Management technology portfolio while managing a large product and portfolio organization. The role partners with executive stakeholders to deliver integrated roadmaps, responsible AI adoption, financial stewardship, and measurable business and clinical outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the integrated UM/CM product strategy, product vision, and capability roadmaps across Optum Health and UHC
• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle, from intake and discovery through delivery, adoption, operational performance, and retirement
• Partner with business, clinical, operations, engineering, architecture, and data teams to translate strategic priorities into scalable product capabilities
• Accelerate responsible AI adoption across UM and CM products, including AI-assisted clinical workflows, decision support, documentation, and operational automation
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing organization of product, portfolio, and analyst professionals with clear accountability and measurable outcomes
• Own the integrated UM/CM investment portfolio, aligning spend, capacity, and sequencing to enterprise strategy, clinical priorities, and business outcomes
• Lead product intake, prioritization, funding recommendations, and transparent trade-off decisions across competing initiatives and lines of business
• Develop annual and multi-year capital plans, business cases, capital committee submissions, and investment roadmaps in partnership with Finance and capability leaders
• Establish a unified portfolio roadmap that integrates milestones, dependencies, risks, funding, capacity, technical debt, and expected benefits
• Oversee budget, forecast, burn rate, budget-to-actual variance, and funding reallocation to the highest-value opportunities
• Own benefits and value realization, including clear success measures, finance validation, executive reporting, and corrective actions when outcomes are at risk
• Operate portfolio governance cadences through executive dashboards, monthly and quarterly reviews, KPI/MBO reporting, and concise risk narratives
• Drive portfolio simplification through modernization, consolidation of duplicative capabilities, and retirement of low-value or legacy assets
• Performance will be assessed through a balanced set of portfolio, product, operational, clinical, financial, and transformation outcomes

Requirements:

• • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• • 10+ years of technical product and/or portfolio management experience leading large-scale enterprise technology platforms and software solutions
• • 5+ years of people leadership experience managing managers, product leaders, portfolio professionals, and cross-functional teams in a matrixed enterprise
• • Demonstrated experience owning a technology investment portfolio, including capital planning, governance, prioritization, roadmap management, and benefits realization
• • Experience defining enterprise product strategy and delivering complex, cloud-enabled software solutions
• • Experience evaluating, integrating, or deploying modern artificial intelligence capabilities in enterprise workflows
• • Proven ability to partner with Finance on business cases, capital allocation, forecasting, and financial validation of outcomes
• • Proven executive-level collaboration across business, clinical, operations, finance, and technology stakeholders
• • Healthcare technology experience, preferably supporting Utilization Management, Care Management, Prior Authorization, or clinical operations
• • Experience operating portfolio governance frameworks, intake and stage-gate processes, capital committee cadences, and executive portfolio reporting
• • Experience building unified, multi-line-of-business roadmaps and aligning internal and external partners around a shared investment plan
• • Experience with cloud-native platforms, APIs, microservices, workflow orchestration, data platforms, analytics, and AI enablement
• • Proven track record of delivering measurable operational efficiency, cost reduction, quality improvement, customer value, or healthcare outcomes