Product Manager

Optum India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum India in Hyderabad is seeking a strategic Product Manager for US Healthcare IT products to define and drive product roadmaps and own the portfolio backlog. You will articulate the product vision and collaborate with engineering to ensure successful roadmap execution.

Responsibilities include owning the backlog, translating customer and market needs into product requirements, and leading cross-functional teams through ideation, alpha, beta, and GA readiness with a focus on data-driven

Qualifications

• Experience in payer/provider space and understanding of medical coding and risk adjustment models.
• Ability to engage with technology teams on current and emerging technologies and solution space.
• Proven ability to collaborate with business, engineering, product, and ops teams to drive outcomes.
• Experience performing win/loss analyses to guide product roadmaps.
• Skilled in gathering requirements and maintaining product backlog/roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive product management and roadmap for US Healthcare IT products.
• Articulate product vision and strategy to engineering teams.
• Own portfolio backlog and ensure roadmap execution.
• Collaborate with UX and engineering to drive product design and user experience.
• Translate customer and market needs into actionable product ideas and requirements.
• Lead cross-functional teams through ideation, alpha, beta, and GA readiness.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Aha

Rally

Job description

Core Skills : Strategic Product Manager, US Healthcare Domain, Product Roadmap, Payers & Providers,

Primary Responsibilities:

• Product Manager for US Healthcare IT product or portfolio of products
• Define and drive product management & Roadmap for products
• Clearly articulate product vision, strategy and roadmap to engineering team effectively as and when needed
• Owner of portfolio backlog and roadmap execution
• Collaborate with UX & engineering team to drive product design
• Identifies and accesses relevant data to build compelling business case in self-directed manner
• Consistent value delivery based on business MBOs
• Drive system demo to stakeholders and customers
• Prioritize backlog at feature and user story level with complete understanding of feature
• Effective action on feedback received during retro meetings
• Identify potential issues and pro-actively develops mitigation plans
• Build & drive culture of innovation in the portfolio
• Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvement and strategic innovation
• 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 environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so
• Experience who can support a product leader with large revenue initiatives or smaller initiatives independently
• customer journey mapping, workflow analysis, problem definition to validate market needs and user requirements.
• Then translate customer, market, operational and business needs into product.
• product management activities through the ideation phase all the way through alpha, beta, and control GA, including readiness, and then be able to support cross-functional technology, operational, et cetera.

Qualifications - External

Required Qualifications:

• Good knowledge of payer and provider space and idea about medical coding, risk adjustment models
• Working knowledge of medicaid state specific cycles for payments
• Working knowledge of various tools such as Aha, Rally etc.
• Understanding and ability to conduct meaningful conversation with technology team on various existing and emerging technologies and overall solution space
• Proven ability to collaborate with various teams (business, engineering, product, ops) to drive common objective and help achieving outcomes
• Proven ability to perform win/loss analysis to determine product roadmap
• Proven expertise in driving cost/benefit analysis and track forecast to ensure the product is performing as expected
• Proven expertise in applying data-driven knowledge and best practices to improve product
• Proven expertise in gathering requirements from the business, documenting and maintaining product backlog/roadmap
• Proven expertise in process improvement, workflow, benchmarking and / or evaluation of business processes