Director Product - Remote

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We are seeking a strategic, execution‑driven Product Director to lead the vision, roadmap, and delivery of next‑generation healthcare technology products. This leader will blend deep product management expertise with strong technical aptitude, EMR ecosystem fluency, and a passion for improving outcomes across clinical, quality, population health, and value‑based care workflows.

You will guide cross‑functional teams, shape product strategy, partner closely with engineering and market stakeholders, and ensure our products deliver measurable customer and patient impact.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

• Product Strategy & Vision
  • Owns interoperability portfolio strategy and accountable for P&L; makes invest/hold/retire recommendations to sustain a healthy portfolio aligned to business strategy
  • Possess an in-depth understanding of technical product management best practices and frameworks
  • Collaborates with Stakeholders to drive strategic and outcome-based roadmaps
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to offer ideas that will facilitate product maturity within an organization
  • Clearly understands cross-product workflow / LOB relationships; learns from and adopts other products' successes
  • Directs competitive analysis and market & opportunity sizing, including white‑space assessment; translates insights into portfolio bets and investment priorities
  • Develops positioning & value propositions by segment; aligns portfolio roadmap to buyer needs and purchase cycles
  • Deep and personal knowledge of payer and provider users, customers and market segments
• Roadmap, Prioritization & Execution
  • Influences & drives prioritization across the Product Development Roadmap, Product Backlog, and Sprint Backlog
  • Influences 'Definition of Done' and ensures it is clearly understood
  • Work with Business Leads and Engineering Leads to ensure OKR's are created and measured
  • Establishes KPIs and targets; implements governance that ties decisions to the original customer problem and verifies outcome realization
  • Leads evidence based decisioning: defines learning agendas, instrumentation plans, and experiments; critically reviews analyses to evaluate effectiveness and determine course corrections.
  • Builds business cases and capital requests; evaluates trade offs across the portfolio to prioritize funding and resources
  • Delivering product performance in alignment with expectations, and updates changes to a product portfolio to improve competitive position and produce optimal product performance to meet customer and market needs
  • Right problems are being solved the right way to meet customer needs + Owns the improvement of user and customer metrics such as NPS
• Technical Leadership, Architecture & Engineering Partnership
  • Translates product vision into operational designs and scalable architectures; provides high level requirements and guardrails that enable iterative delivery
  • Monitors industry technology roadmaps and recommends innovation in digital/channels to advance portfolio competitiveness
  • Ensures industry standard architecture and design patterns are followed
  • Able to evangelize and foster reuse across products
  • Partners appropriately across the portfolio to minimize overlapping work
  • Works with delivery leadership teams to align Engineering / Architecture expectations of Product team within
  • Balance business priorities with technology enablers to advance…