[Remote] Associate Technical Product Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology, to help millions of people live healthier lives. The Associate Technical Product Manager will support product managers and teams in managing the full product lifecycle, focusing on user stories, backlog prioritization, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve product performance. This role requires empathy for the customer journey and the ability to operate in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Supports jobs to aid product managers and teams
- Understands the "what & why" of user stories, their relationship to features, and how each may impact the user
- Demonstrates empathy for the customer journey; understands applicable personas
- Identifies and appropriately leverages SMEs
- Understands overall product strategy and roadmap
- Understands the demand, priorities, and scrum team capacity
- Ensure user stories are directly tied to OKRs
- Supports team in decomposing features into manageable user stories and collaborates with Business Partners to gather any information required for user story creation
- Supports backlog prioritization
- Collaborates with team well, positively influencing user story outcomes
- Attends training to further advance knowledge
- Operates in an ambiguous and dynamic environment and adopts a growth mindset
Skills
- HS Diploma or GED equivalent
- 1+ years of experience in product management or technology delivery roles
- 1+ years of experience working in an agile or scaled agile development environment
- 1+ years of experience in analyzing customer needs, customer engagement, and product performance
- 1+ years of experience executing work across matrixed product teams
- If you are offered this position, you will be required to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of your employment
- United States Citizenship
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- LESS certification
- Ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with application development and software integration
- Solid research and problem-solving skills
- Ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to make recommendations
- Ability to use straightforward, structured communication when connecting with stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a matrix environment
- Experience in Healthcare
- Experience working with state or federal government clients, including the bidding and implementation process
- Experience leveraging AI tools in the software development (or product) lifecycle in order to improve quality and efficiency
- All Telecommuters 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)
- Flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S.
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