Senior AI/ML Engineering Leader - Growth Tech

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

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group in Minnesota seeks a senior AI strategy and engineering leader to define and execute the Optum Growth AI/ML engineering strategy aligned to enterprise growth objectives. You will build a multi-year roadmap across sales, client engagement, proposal management, marketing, and growth operations.

You will lead AI-native product development, create scalable AI platforms, recruit top talent, and ensure responsible AI governance, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, data science, math or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive technology leadership experience.
• 8+ years leading engineering orgs delivering enterprise-scale software, data, or AI solutions.
• Experience leading AI/ML engineering teams in production with Generative AI and Agentic AI at enterprise scale.
• Proven track record of organizational transformation through technology innovation.
• Proven executive communications and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Optum Growth AI/ML engineering strategy aligned to enterprise growth objectives.
• Establish a multi-year roadmap for AI-powered sales, account management, client engagement, proposal management, marketing, and growth operations capabilities.
• Identify and prioritize high-value AI opportunities that improve revenue growth, productivity, customer experience, and decision quality.
• Translate business opportunities into scalable AI-enabled products, platforms, and intelligent workflows.
• Drive measurable business outcomes and value realization from AI investments.
• Building intelligent AI CRM agents to enhance and accelerate our sales teams and process.
• Build and lead high-performing teams of AI engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers, data engineers, architects, and technical product leaders.
• Establish engineering standards, operating models, and delivery practices for AI-native product and platform development.
• Lead the design, development, deployment, and operationalization of enterprise-grade AI solutions, intelligent agents, reusable AI services, and domain-specific accelerators.
• Build scalable data and AI platforms that support structured and unstructured workloads and move solutions from proof of concept to enterprise-scale production.
• Recruit, develop, and mentor top engineering talent while creating a culture of innovation, accountability, experimentation, and continuous learning.
• Strengthen organizational capabilities in GenAI, Agentic AI, and CRM engineering for large enterprise sales organizations.
• Champion responsible, ethical, secure, and compliant AI practices by ensuring solutions align with enterprise AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity, healthcare regulatory requirements, model monitoring, explainability, risk management, trust, and transparency.

Skills

Executive leadership

Stakeholder management

AI/ML engineering

Generative AI

Responsible AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Master's degree or PhD (Preferred)

Tools

Salesforce

Dynamics

Job description

UnitedHealth Group in Minnesota seeks a senior AI strategy and engineering leader to define and execute the Optum Growth AI/ML engineering strategy aligned to enterprise growth objectives. You will build a multi-year roadmap across sales, client engagement, proposal management, marketing, and growth operations.

You will lead AI-native product development, create scalable AI platforms, recruit top talent, and ensure responsible AI governance, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.