Remote Director of Product Strategy & State Operations

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Híbrido; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Optum State Government Solutions’ Program Operations group seeks a Director of Product Management to lead strategy, market positioning, and portfolio execution for state Medicaid and HHS programs.

This role blends product leadership with government program expertise to shape capabilities, investment priorities, and go-to-market plans across cross-functional teams, delivering measurable outcomes for customers and stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and execute the Program Operations product, portfolio, and market strategy aligned to SGS growth, margin, customer, capital, and domain-plan priorities
• Define where Program Operations should grow, scale, fix, partner, acquire, package for reuse, maintain, or retire investment
• Build a multi-year roadmap tied to state Medicaid demand, known procurements, renewal and rebid priorities, account expansion, customer outcomes, technology feasibility, delivery maturity, and financial performance
• Use state Medicaid and HHS market insight to identify emerging needs, pre-procurement opportunities, partnership options, advisory relationships, and areas where SGS should shape demand before formal procurements are released
• Partner with Growth, market and account leadership, government affairs where appropriate, and solution-design teams to define the Program Operations go-to-market playbook, target-state priorities, win themes, competitive differentiation, and pursuit support model
• Translate CMS, state agency, customer, regulatory, procurement, and operational requirements into product strategy, roadmap decisions, investment choices, and measurable outcomes
• Develop business cases, pricing logic, margin-ramp assumptions, capital recommendations, commercialization plans, and build / buy / partner recommendations for new and existing offerings
• Rationalize the existing portfolio to reduce complexity, improve investment focus, strengthen reuse, and improve profitability
• Partner with Technology and Engineering to deliver secure, scalable, cloud-ready, government-compliant capabilities and identify modernization, technical-debt, AI, automation, and platform-reuse opportunities
• Partner with Operations, implementation, and client leadership to ensure offerings are deliverable, adopted, measurable, and connected to customer outcomes
• Support customer advisory conversations, industry forums, conference strategy, thought leadership, and market-facing points of view where appropriate to strengthen SGS credibility and market access
• Establish product governance, KPIs, and operating cadence across adoption, customer health, delivery performance

Descripción del empleo

Optum State Government Solutions’ Program Operations group seeks a Director of Product Management to lead strategy, market positioning, and portfolio execution for state Medicaid and HHS programs.

This role blends product leadership with government program expertise to shape capabilities, investment priorities, and go-to-market plans across cross-functional teams, delivering measurable outcomes for customers and stakeholders.