Technical Product Manager, Optum Insight API Platform

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States Salary: $72,800 - $130,000/year

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United Health Group Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. The Optum Insight API Platform team is seeking a Technical Product Manager to support delivery of API platform capabilities that help teams publish, manage, monitor, and support APIs more efficiently. This role will partner with engineering, architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to translate platform needs into clear requirements, prioritize work, and support delivery from discovery through launch.

The ideal candidate has experience with technical products, platforms, APIs, or enterprise technology capabilities. They can break down complex problems, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and help drive execution across teams.

Experience with API management, developer platforms, cloud systems, reliability, or automation is valuable, but this role is primarily focused on execution, delivery support, and continuous improvement for assigned platform capabilities.

You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

Own and execute product work for assigned API platform capabilities, including discovery, requirements, prioritization, delivery support, and stakeholder alignment

Convert business objectives, user pain points, security requirements, and operational constraints into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and priority decisions

Lead cross-functional planning with engineering, architecture, SRE, security, identity, and operations to sequence dependencies, assess risks, and drive release quality gates

Support improvements to platform reliability and operational readiness through better monitoring, resiliency planning, incident learnings, disaster recovery preparation, and operational controls

Support self-service onboarding and process improvements that reduce manual intervention, improve consistency, and increase platform throughput

Communicate product direction, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery progress clearly with cross-functional stakeholders

Use feedback, metrics, support trends, and operational insights to identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and better self-service

Contribute to documentation, repeatable processes, release readiness, and cross-team alignment for assigned platform capabilities

Partner with related product teams, including AI Marketplace where applicable, to ensure platform capabilities support broader API discovery, onboarding, subscription, and commercialization needs

Apply AI product management tools and practices to improve requirements quality, documentation, prioritization, and collaboration

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Healthcare Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience3+ years of experience in Product Management, Technical Product Management, Platform Product Management, or a related technology role2+ years of experience working with APIs, platform products, developer platforms, integrations, or enterprise technology environments1+ years of experience engaging stakeholders, documenting requirements and decisions, and collaborating effectively across engineering, architecture, operations, security, product, and business teams1+ years of experience translating technical and business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, product requirements, and delivery priorities

Experience working in a fast-paced, matrixed enterprise environment with evolving…