[Remote] Senior Product Manager, Payer or Provider - Network Strategy and Optimization - Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is focused on improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected healthcare system. The Senior Product Manager for Network Strategy & Optimization will own the strategy and execution of the Network Optimization module, collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance provider networks and drive data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Owns the product vision and strategy for the Network Optimization module within Value Connect, with clear accountability for business value, client relevance, and module performance
• Defines clear product goals, problem statements, and outcome-based success measures tied to network cost, access, performance, and operational efficiency
• Identifies and prioritizes optimization use cases such as network adequacy, steerage, leakage reduction, provider performance, cost efficiency, and cost-of-care improvement
• Partners with network, actuarial, clinical, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions align to real-world network management workflows, analytics needs, and decision-making processes
• Uses customer, market, competitive, and performance insights to inform product tradeoffs, sequencing decisions, and ongoing optimization strategy
• Owns the end-to-end product roadmap and backlog for the Network Optimization module, from roadmap definition through sprint-level execution
• Drives prioritization across the product roadmap, product backlog, and sprint backlog based on business value, technical feasibility, data readiness, and delivery risk
• Ensures delivery sequencing maximizes measurable financial impact, customer adoption, usability, and operational performance
• Partners with engineering, UX, and data science to define delivery plans, success metrics, and acceptance criteria tied to network optimization outcomes
• Actively manages delivery risks and sequencing decisions tied to data availability, model readiness, integration dependencies, and cross-team capacity constraints
• Serves as the primary product partner to engineering, UX, and data science teams delivering network optimization analytics, workflows, and decision-support capabilities
• Translates optimization use cases into clear functional requirements, workflow expectations, data needs, and acceptance criteria
• Ensures solutions align to Value Connect shared data models, analytics standards, and architectural patterns to support scale and reuse
• Identifies opportunities to reuse data assets, analytical logic, and workflows across Value Connect modules where it improves consistency and speed to value
• Balances near-term delivery with long-term scalability, performance, explainability, and data quality across analytics-driven capabilities
• Applies agile product management best practices to drive predictable, high-quality delivery of network optimization capabilities
• Reinforces a shared Definition of Done for analytics-driven features, models, and insights in partnership with engineering and data teams
• Uses agile planning and product development tools to manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery transparency across workstreams
• Partners with delivery leadership on capacity planning, sequencing, and execution readiness across engineering, analytics, and integration workstreams
• Identifies execution risks related to data availability, model readiness, integration dependencies, or decision latency and drives mitigation plans early
• Owns success metrics for the Network Optimization module, including financial impact, adoption, usability, operational performance, and value realization
• Runs continuous discovery, testing, and validation to ensure the team is solving the highest-value network optimization problems
• Partners with internal and external stakeholders to validate product direction, workflow usability, and the value of optimization insights in real-world use
• Drives continuous improvement of optimization capabilities based on performance data, stakeholder feedback, and adoption trends
• Communicates product outcomes, tradeoffs, progress, and risks clearly and credibly across highly matrixed senior stakeholders
• Collaborates closely with engineering, data science, network operations, actuarial, clinical, and business teams
• Communicates product decisions, tradeoffs, and progress related to the Network Optimization module to senior stakeholders
• Anticipates cross-module dependencies and proactively addresses alignment challenges within Value Connect
• Navigates competing priorities through data-driven, customer-centric decision-making

Skills

• 10+ years of experience in healthcare, including product management, technology, or analytics-driven environments
• 5+ years in product management roles supporting complex, data-driven healthcare products or platforms
• 5+ years of experience in payer and/or provider network domains, with solid expertise in network data, workflows, performance management, cost-of-care, and network optimization analytics
• 5+ years supporting go-to-market activities, including product positioning, value proposition development, client-facing demos, and sales enablement in partnership with product marketing
• Demonstrated experience translating network and healthcare analytics, along with complex business problems, into product strategy, roadmap decisions, and measurable business outcomes
• Experience bridging technical and non-technical audiences, including translating complex network and analytics concepts for business, commercial, and client stakeholders
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across product, engineering, analytics, UX, and business stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment
• Proven solid track record of product commercialization and solution delivery, bringing analytics-driven and network-focused products to market successfully
• Proven clear and credible communicator with the ability to simplify complex concepts and influence diverse stakeholder groups
• Solid product strategy ownership for analytics-driven healthcare products with clear success measures and business outcomes
• Deep understanding of payer and provider network management and analytics use cases, including network adequacy, steerage, leakage, provider performance, cost efficiency, and cost-of-care
• Ability to translate complex network, actuarial, clinical, and analytical concepts into scalable product requirements, workflows, and decisions
• Experience owning roadmap and backlog prioritization across delivery stages while managing dependencies tied to data, models, and integrations
• Proven ability to drive adoption, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver measurable impact from analytics-driven products in matrixed environments
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

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