Remote AI Portfolio Lead: Strategy & Value Delivery

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work policy

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking an Associate Director, AI Portfolio Enablement to shape, structure, and prioritize a portfolio of AI opportunities, translating demand into clearly defined, value-driven initiatives with solid business cases and stakeholder alignment.

The role requires cross-functional leadership, business-case development, and governance-ready recommendations that align with strategy and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in product strategy, portfolio management, or solution delivery, including exposure to AI or machine learning-enabled products
• Solid experience developing business cases and cost-benefit analyses (CBA), with an ability to translate insights into actionable recommendations
• Demonstrated strength in structuring ambiguous problems and converting them into clearly defined, decision-ready opportunities
• Proven effectiveness leading cross-functional efforts and driving outcomes in complex, matrixed environments
• Proven executive-level communication skills, with a track record of influencing stakeholders and shaping decisions
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize across a portfolio of competing initiatives, balancing value, complexity, and resource constraints

Responsibilities

• Manage and refine a portfolio of AI opportunities aligned to business strategy and prioritized by value, feasibility, and readiness
• Translate unstructured AI demand into clearly defined opportunities through consistent intake and assessment processes
• Lead opportunity framing, including problem definition, solution hypothesis, stakeholder alignment, and dependency identification
• Develop business cases and CBAs with value hypotheses across financial, operational, workforce, and risk dimensions
• Ensure opportunities are fully defined and decision-ready for governance and funding review
• Present portfolio recommendations and prioritization rationale to governance forums
• Develop executive-ready materials to support decision-making and stakeholder alignment
• Support the conversion of opportunities into scalable, repeatable solution offerings with clear value propositions
• Partner with delivery teams to ensure smooth transition from opportunity definition into execution
• Define initial success metrics, baseline assumptions, and measurement approaches
• Build and manage relationships with business stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners to drive alignment and adoption

Skills

AI portfolio management

Executive stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

UnitedHealth Group is seeking an Associate Director, AI Portfolio Enablement to shape, structure, and prioritize a portfolio of AI opportunities, translating demand into clearly defined, value-driven initiatives with solid business cases and stakeholder alignment.

The role requires cross-functional leadership, business-case development, and governance-ready recommendations that align with strategy and measurable outcomes.