Senior Technical Product Manager

UnitedHealth Group; Chennai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager for CareSelect Imaging to translate business needs into technical work and drive delivery with global engineering teams. The role requires turning complex requirements into clear user stories, managing backlogs, and aligning with architecture, QA, and operations to ensure successful releases.

The ideal candidate will be technically fluent, capable of negotiating across distributed teams, and skilled at clarifying dependencies,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience in technical product management, product ownership, product management, business systems analysis, or technology delivery.
• Experience working directly with engineering leadership, architects, and distributed development teams.
• Experience supporting PI planning, dependency management, and scaled Agile delivery.
• Experience managing and prioritizing backlogs in an Agile product-development environment.
• Experience partnering directly with engineering teams to clarify requirements and drive work through planning and delivery.
• Experience with Agile and portfolio-management tools such as Aha, Rally, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Demonstrated experience decomposing complex capabilities or features into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions and drive alignment across multiple engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate end-to-end technical concepts, including data flows, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, or enterprise systems.
• Demonstrated solid facilitation, written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, cross-team dependencies, and delivery risks.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategy into executable work: Partner with Product Management to translate business, customer, and product needs into well-defined capabilities, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized technical work.
• Own backlog readiness and work decomposition: Break complex initiatives into manageable increments, maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog, and ensure work is sufficiently defined and understood before entering development.
• Partner closely with Engineering: Work day-to-day with onshore and offshore Engineering, Architecture, and QA teams to clarify requirements, evaluate technical approaches, understand APIs, integrations, data flows, and dependencies, and resolve questions throughout development.
• Drive delivery across teams: Support sprint and PI planning, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and proactively manage scope, risks, blockers, and decisions from initial definition through development and delivery.
• Ensure quality and release readiness: Partner with Engineering and QA on testing, acceptance criteria, UAT, release readiness, and deployment activities, ensuring product changes meet intended business and customer outcomes.
• Communicate and continuously improve: Provide clear visibility into priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and release impacts while identifying opportunities to improve requirements quality, delivery predictability, and collaboration across distributed 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

Skills

Technical product management

Product ownership

Agile delivery

Backlog management

Stakeholder facilitation

Communication

Cloud platforms

APIs and integrations

Data flows

Distributed teams

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Rally

Aha

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 startCaring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Senior Technical Product Manager (TPM) for CareSelect Imaging is responsible for translating product strategy, customer needs, and business priorities into clear, executable technical work and driving that work through successful delivery.

This role serves as a critical connection point between Product Management and Engineering, partnering closely with development teams in India and the U.S., as well as Architecture, QA, Operations, Support, and other cross-functional stakeholders. The Senior TPM must be able to understand the intended business and customer outcome, translate that need into manageable technical capabilities, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and remain actively engaged through planning, development, testing, release, and post-release validation.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical understanding with disciplined product execution. This individual does not need to be the solution architect or engineering lead, but must be technically fluent enough to understand system interactions, integrations, APIs, data flows, dependencies, and technical constraints; ask the right questions; challenge assumptions; and facilitate alignment between business and technical teams.

A key measure of success in this role is the ability to turn complex or sometimes ambiguous business needs into well-understood, appropriately scoped work that engineering teams can execute predictably.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Translate strategy into executable work: Partner with Product Management to translate business, customer, and product needs into well-defined capabilities, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized technical work
• Own backlog readiness and work decomposition: Break complex initiatives into manageable increments, maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog, and ensure work is sufficiently defined and understood before entering development
• Partner closely with Engineering: Work day-to-day with onshore and offshore Engineering, Architecture, and QA teams to clarify requirements, evaluate technical approaches, understand APIs, integrations, data flows, and dependencies, and resolve questions throughout development
• Drive delivery across teams: Support sprint and PI planning, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and proactively manage scope, risks, blockers, and decisions from initial definition through development and delivery
• Ensure quality and release readiness: Partner with Engineering and QA on testing, acceptance criteria, UAT, release readiness, and deployment activities, ensuring product changes meet intended business and customer outcomes
• Communicate and continuously improve: Provide clear visibility into priorities, progress, risks, dependencies, and release impacts while identifying opportunities to improve requirements quality, delivery predictability, and collaboration across distributed 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:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience
• 3+ years of experience in technical product management, product ownership, product management, business systems analysis, or technology delivery
• Experience working directly with engineering leadership, architects, and distributed development teams
• Experience supporting PI planning, dependency management, and scaled Agile delivery
• Experience managing and prioritizing backlogs in an Agile product-development environment
• Experience partnering directly with engineering teams to clarify requirements and drive work through planning and delivery
• Experience with Agile and portfolio-management tools such as Aha, Rally, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools
• Demonstrated experience decomposing complex capabilities or features into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions and drive alignment across multiple engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate end-to-end technical concepts, including data flows, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, or enterprise systems
• Demonstrated solid facilitation, written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, cross-team dependencies, and delivery risks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with healthcare technology, healthcare payer operations, claims, prior authorization, clinical data, or managed-service platforms
• Experience operating within a scaled Agile or PI-planning environment
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, DevOps practices, integration testing, and automation
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 or FHI

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.