VP, People Technology Strategy & Platform Transformation

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; USD 200,000 - 344,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group seeks a VP, HR Technology Strategy to lead the strategy, roadmaps, and business ownership of the People technology ecosystem. You will translate People strategy into a technology-enabled capability roadmap at enterprise scale, shaping what experiences we build for employees and managers.

You will partner across COEs, HR Operations, AI Enablement, Payroll, Talent, Recruiting, and Tech to ensure value realization, adoption, and measurable outcomes for the organization.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in HR/People technology, digital product management, and enterprise technology transformation.
• Ability to translate business strategy into technology roadmaps and product capabilities.
• Experience leading HR/People technology or enterprise digital platforms at scale.
• Experience partnering with HR COEs, HR Operations, Technology, Legal, Privacy, Security, Finance, and senior leaders.
• Understanding of HR processes and systems across core HR, talent, recruiting, learning, payroll/time, analytics, or related People domains.
• Experience with roadmap governance, demand management, prioritization, business case development, release readiness, and adoption planning.
• Proven ability to lead through influence in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Executive communication, stakeholder management, and decision-framing skills.
• Experience leading teams and developing talent.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise People technology strategy and multi-year roadmap across core HR, talent, recruiting, learning, employee support, manager experience, payroll/time alignment, analytics enablement, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Translate strategy and priorities into a sequenced portfolio of technology-enabled capabilities.
• Partner with COEs and HR Operations to identify capability gaps, pain points, and modernization needs.
• Ensure investments align to enterprise priorities, compliance, and measurable business value.
• Establish governance balancing run, grow, and transform priorities.
• Lead product leadership for People technology capabilities with clear ownership and outcomes.
• Build partnerships to translate business needs into product strategies and technology roadmaps.
• Move from request-routing to strategic partnerships with platform knowledge and vendor roadmap insight.
• Ensure major domains have clear product partnerships and roadmaps with stakeholder engagement.
• Lead prioritization across demands based on business value, readiness, risk, and feasibility.
• Provide business leadership for the People technology ecosystem including Oracle HCM and related platforms.
• Partner with Tech on architecture, integration, design, delivery, and security.
• Maintain distinction between People business ownership and Technology ownership.
• Evaluate platform capabilities and vendors to maximize enterprise value.
• Drive simplification, standardization, and better integration across the ecosystem.
• Embed AI and automation into People workflows with governance and value measurement.
• Identify where AI and automation improve experience and shift work to the appropriate service tier.
• Ensure AI-enabled use cases have human-in-the-loop controls and adoption metrics.
• Support the reimagination of work through technology and process redesign.
• Establish intake, prioritization, and governance for demand; define requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Lead release governance and adoption planning with stakeholders.
• Ensure go-live readiness and post-launch optimization.
• Ensure adoption, experience, and value metrics for major initiatives.

Skills

Product strategy

HR technology

Digital product management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

AI enablement

Tools

Oracle HCM

Workday

SAP SuccessFactors

PeopleSoft

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Microsoft platforms

Job description

UnitedHealth Group seeks a VP, HR Technology Strategy to lead the strategy, roadmaps, and business ownership of the People technology ecosystem. You will translate People strategy into a technology-enabled capability roadmap at enterprise scale, shaping what experiences we build for employees and managers.

You will partner across COEs, HR Operations, AI Enablement, Payroll, Talent, Recruiting, and Tech to ensure value realization, adoption, and measurable outcomes for the organization.