Senior Manager Tech Product Management

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. We are seeking a G29-level product leader to own strategy, execution, and operational excellence for AI-enabled healthcare products that improve provider discovery, care navigation, member decisioning, and stakeholder trust. This role will translate ambiguous business opportunities into measurable product outcomes, lead cross-functional delivery across engineering, data science, operations, clinical, compliance, and business partners, and ensure solutions are explainable, scalable, auditable, and aligned to enterprise priorities. The ideal candidate combines solid product judgment, technical depth, AI fluency, healthcare domain understanding, and executive communication. They will manage complex trade-offs across speed, quality, risk, regulatory expectations, member experience, and measurable business value. What This Role Will Own Product vision, roadmap, and value narrative for one or more strategic product capabilities, platforms, or experience areas Problem of discovery, opportunity sizing, prioritization, requirements definition, acceptance criteria, and release readiness for complex initiatives AI product practices including explainability, relevance measurement, guardrails, data quality, evaluation frameworks, feedback loops, and responsible use controls Cross-functional execution across AIDLC / SDLC teams, TPMs, engineering leads, UX, analytics, clinical SMEs, compliance, legal, operations, and business stakeholders Outcome measurement through adoption, conversion, engagement, quality, operational efficiency, cost avoidance, member/provider satisfaction, and risk reduction metrics Primary Responsibilities: Define and communicate product strategy, north-star outcomes, success metrics, quarterly priorities, and release plans for assigned product area Convert business and user problems into crisp epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, data requirements, non-functional requirements, and launch criteria Lead experimentation and evaluation for AI-enabled capabilities, including model behavior assessment, search relevance tuning, recommendation quality, bias checks, explainability review, and human-in-the-loop feedback Drive prioritization and trade-off decisions with a value-based lens, balancing member outcomes, enterprise impact, technical feasibility, compliance, and delivery capacity Partner with engineering and architecture to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, performant, observable, maintainable, and production-ready Establish product operating rhythms, dashboards, RAID tracking, decision logs, dependency management, rollout plans, and executive-ready status reporting Mentor product managers, TPMs, analysts, and delivery partners on product thinking, AI adoption, requirements quality, and stakeholder management Ensure product requirements and releases meet privacy, security, accessibility, regulatory, auditability, and enterprise governance expectations Represent product area in leadership reviews, PI planning, roadmap discussions, stakeholder demos, operational readiness forums, and post-launch value reviews 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