Product Manager

Optum India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum India is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the product strategy and lifecycle for our portfolio. You will partner with Sales, Marketing, and Client Implementation to identify opportunities and shape the roadmap.

You will mentor PMs/POs, translate strategic goals into well-groomed backlogs for agile teams, and communicate progress to senior leadership. The role emphasizes AI-enabled product features and stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, Healthcare, CS, Engineering, Math or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years total experience with 5+ years in Product Management.
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders and collaborating with multi-functional teams.
• Experience in product strategy or business development.
• Experience with Agile software development practices.
• Experience collaborating with cross functional teams including data scientists.
• Experience using AI to facilitate product processes.
• Proven track record delivering large, complex products and leading PM/PO teams.
• Structured thinker able to manage ambiguity and prioritize in a matrixed environment.
• Self-motivated to understand business and customer needs across personas.

Responsibilities

• Define long and short term product/portfolio strategies and manage full lifecycle.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Client Implementation to identify opportunities and validate ideas.
• Communicate product strategy, vision, goals and roadmap to senior leadership; ensure progress reports are accurate.
• Lead teams of product managers and owners to create a healthy backlog for four sprints worth of stories.
• Comply with company policies and adapt to changes including flexible work arrangements.

Skills

Product management

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional leadership

AI in product

Market research

Portfolio strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Healthcare/CS/Engineering

Job description

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 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.

Primary Responsibilities

• Define long and short term product/portfolio strategies, identify market needs, define product performance indicators, managing build, launch and operational financials, whilst overseeing all stages of the product lifecycle (Ideate, Define, Build, Launch, Manage, Sunset) to ensure product delivery by ensuring that solutions are defined with high-value requirements, compelling business cases, clear product positioning, and a clear priority order
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Client Implementation teams to identify and prioritize product opportunities that drive business growth and customer satisfaction. Performing or commissioning market research activities to validate the opportunity
• Work with senior leadership to communicate product strategy, vision, goals, roadmap, and performance. Ensure material used for weekly and monthly reporting of progress is up to date and accurate
• Lead teams of product managers and product owners to ensure that product goals and initiatives have been deconstructed into features and four sprints worth of groomed user's stories (a healthy backlog) that can executed by the scrum teams
• Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements

Required Qualifications

• Degree or higher in a in a Business, Healthcare, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of total experience with 5+ years in Product Management
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders and customers and collaborating with multi-functional teams ensuring the communication and tracking of cross-functional team dependencies
• Experience in product strategy or business development either in a strategy organization or new business
• Experience working within an Agile software development practices and methodologies
• Experience collaboratively with cross functional teams business SMEs, engineers, data scientists and analysts
• Experience using AI to facilitate everyday product processes and incorporating AI features into a product
• Proven track record of managing and delivering large, complex, multi-stakeholder products and managing teams of product managers and product owners
• Proven structured thinker who can manage ambiguity, define a product direction and prioritization in a complex, matrixed environment
• Proven independently motivated to identify and take the steps necessary to understand the businesses, customer needs, and technologies across a variety of customer personas and product categories

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.

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