Lead Technical Product Manager

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Our Lead Technical Product Manager / Product Leader is responsible for shaping and leading a suite of products across OPEN, ensuring product strategy, discovery, roadmap direction and delivery execution are aligned to business outcomes. This role operates across multiple products, teams and stakeholder groups, bringing clarity to priorities, managing dependencies across a highly matrixed organization, and translating complex business, data and technology needs into actionable product plans. The role will also provide leadership, coaching and day-to-day guidance to other Technical Product Managers, helping mature product practices, strengthen backlog quality and build a high-performing product management capability across the portfolio. Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Product Leadership and Portfolio Management: Own and evolve the technical product strategy, roadmap and delivery priorities for a suite of related products, balancing business value, technical feasibility, operational risk and customer impact Create and maintain integrated product roadmaps that show sequencing, dependencies, milestones and value delivery across multiple products and teams Lead portfolio-level backlog management, ensuring work is appropriately triaged, prioritized, refined and aligned to strategic outcomes Partner with business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, design, analytics and delivery leaders to shape product direction and resolve trade-offs across the portfolio Provide product leadership across multiple scrum teams, ensuring sprint goals and delivery plans connect back to product outcomes and roadmap commitments Technical and Strategic Product Expertise: Manage intake for technological advancements, emerging product practices, AI-enabled delivery approaches and industry trends to inform product strategy and future investment decisions Champion the responsible use of AI in product discovery, backlog refinement, analysis, prototyping, delivery planning and operational workflows, ensuring AI is used to accelerate outcomes while maintaining appropriate human oversight Help mature the product development lifecycle through thoughtful adoption of agentic AI, improving how teams discover, refine, validate, deliver and operate products Understand complex technical, data, architecture and integration issues and facilitate decision-making across product, engineering and business stakeholders Ensure the product suite adheres to technical, security, compliance, privacy and regulatory standards, while balancing delivery timelines and business value Use technical fluency to challenge assumptions, shape solution options, manage dependencies and ensure products are built in a scalable, reusable and sustainable way Data, Analytics and Domain Fluency: Develop and maintain solid understanding of the business data domain, key entities, metrics, analytical logic and product data flows across the suite of products Partner with Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Engineering and Architecture to validate data models, definitions and assumptions before delivery commitments are made Ensure analytical logic and data