Exec Asst

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives.

Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Join Optum Technology supporting United Healthcare Technology leadership as an Executive Assistant. In this highly visible role, you will serve as a trusted strategic and administrative partner directly supporting the Vice President, CTO and Vice President, CIO.

You will operate in a fast-paced, high-volume environment where priorities frequently shift. The successful candidate will bring solid executive judgment, initiative, discretion, and the ability to anticipate needs, independently resolve routine issues, and protect executive time.

In addition to managing complex calendars, travel, executive communications, and leadership meetings, you will help strengthen executive visibility, team connection, and the employee experience. As an operational anchor across both leadership portfolios, you will enable the executives to remain focused on critical technology initiatives, strategic alignment, and operational excellence across the enterprise.

This is a Minnesota-based, office-focused position with flexibility based on business and personal needs. Regular onsite presence is important to support executive leadership, in-person meetings, leadership events, and local team activities.

• Serve as a trusted strategic partner to executive leadership, using sound business judgment to prioritize requests, protect executive time, resolve routine issues, and determine when matters require executive involvement
• Provide direct, high-level administrative support to the Vice President, CTO and Vice President, CIO within a fast-paced technology organization
• Anticipate executive needs, identify potential conflicts or operational issues, and proactively develop solutions with minimal direction
• Manage complex, fluid executive calendars across multiple domestic and international time zones, balancing competing priorities and proactively resolving scheduling conflicts
• Coordinate domestic and international executive travel, including flight arrangements, detailed itineraries, accommodations, ground transportation, meetings abroad, and last-minute changes
• Plan and coordinate in-person and virtual executive meetings, leadership sessions, workshops, and events, including agendas, materials, room and technology setup, and follow-up activities
• Support leadership and employee-engagement activities that strengthen team connection, executive visibility, and the employee experience
• Prepare, submit, audit, and reconcile executive expense reports and support invoice processing and other administrative financial workflows
• Draft, proofread, format, and edit executive-ready presentations, correspondence, communications, spreadsheets, and business documentation
• Maintain organized, accessible digital documents and information using Microsoft 365 and other enterprise collaboration tools
• Handle sensitive and confidential business information with discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment
• Build effective relationships with senior leaders, business partners, employees, administrative colleagues, and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with peer administrative professionals to provide operational continuity, backup coverage, shared best practices, and onboarding…