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
Company Overview
We’re evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. It was founded in 1985, and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://frontiertherapies.optum.com.