Data Product Manager,

UnitedHealth Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Wellness programs

Matching pension contribution

Lunch provided by the company

Training opportunities

Employee donations matching

Job summary

Optum in Ireland is seeking a Data Product Manager to join the Optum Rx Underwriting product team. You will own discovery, roadmap, and delivery for data-driven products, working with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Tech to turn complex data problems into scalable products.

You will collaborate across teams, manage backlogs, define success metrics and ensure data governance, privacy, and regulatory compliance throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Proven solid experience in Technical Product Management, Data Product Management or Analytics.
• Demonstrated experience delivering data-driven products from discovery through production.
• Solid SQL proficiency for querying, analyzing, and validating data.
• Experience with data pipelines, ETL/ELT, data modeling, quality, and governance.
• Experience with modern data platforms, including Databricks.
• Strong understanding of Agile product development, backlog management, prioritization.
• Ability to translate business problems into clear technical requirements with engineering teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap and backlog for data-driven products and capabilities.
• Identify problems with stakeholders and translate them into clear product requirements.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics, Architecture and Technology teams.
• Use SQL and data analysis to investigate problems and validate assumptions.
• Build data pipelines, ETL/ELT, data models and APIs for data platforms.
• Work with Databricks and other platforms to understand data ingestion and governance.
• Define user stories, acceptance criteria, data requirements and success metrics.
• Prioritize work based on value, feasibility, risk and priorities.
• Monitor KPIs related to product adoption, data quality, reliability and outcomes.
• Ensure data privacy, security, governance and regulatory considerations.
• Lead Agile practices: refinement, planning and stakeholder communication.
• Communicate complex data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data analysis

Data pipelines

Agile product development

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Product discovery

Technical product management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Databricks

Job description

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. We are looking for a Data Product Manager to join the Optum Rx Underwriting product team and help build and evolve data-driven products that support better business and healthcare outcomes. This is a product role with solid technical and data requirements. You will work closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, Technology and business stakeholders to turn complex data and business problems into scalable, measurable products.

You will own product discovery, prioritization, roadmap development and delivery while developing a solid understanding of the data that powers your products. The successful candidate will work across multiple teams to ensure alignment and serve as the voice of the business with the engineering team to ensure products deliver business value.

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 office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

What You Will Do

• Own the product vision, roadmap and backlog for data-driven products and capabilities
• Work with business stakeholders to identify problems and translate them into clear product requirements
• Partner closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, Architecture and Technology teams throughout discovery and delivery
• Use SQL and data analysis to investigate problems, validate assumptions, understand data quality and support product decisions
• Help build data pipelines, ETL/ELT, data models, APIs, data lakes and modern cloud data platforms
• Work with platforms such as Databricks to understand how data is ingested, transformed, governed and consumed
• Define clear user stories, acceptance criteria, data requirements and product success metrics
• Prioritize work based on customer/business value, technical feasibility, risk and organizational priorities
• Establish and monitor KPIs related to product adoption, data quality, reliability and business outcomes
• Ensure data privacy, security, governance and regulatory requirements are considered throughout the product lifecycle
• Lead Agile product practices including refinement, prioritization, planning and stakeholder communication
• Communicate complex technical and data concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Proven solid experience working on large software programs, including Technical Product Management, Data Product Management, Analytics, or related disciplines
• Demonstrated experience delivering data-driven products or capabilities from discovery through production
• Demonstrated solid SQL proficiency, with the ability to independently query, analyze, and validate data
• Demonstrated practical understanding of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data modeling, data quality, and data governance principles
• Proven experience working with modern data platforms, including demonstrated experience with Databricks
• Demonstrated solid understanding of Agile product development, backlog management, prioritization, and product discovery practices
• Proven experience translating business problems into clear technical requirements and partnering effectively with engineering and data teams
• Demonstrated solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated solid communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders

What We Offer

• Opportunities for professional development
• Inclusive and supportive team culture
• Key benefits: private health insurance, wellness programs, matching pension contribution, lunch provided by the company, training opportunities, employee donations matching and others

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.