Director of Technical Product & Portfolio Management - Remote

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.

The Director of Technical Product & Portfolio Management leads portfolio governance, initiative planning and prioritization, program communication, and delivery across the Optum Rx AI-Native Pharmacy technology portfolio. Partnering directly with business, operations, finance, and technology leaders across Optum Rx, the Director defines integrated capability roadmaps and a unified portfolio roadmap, manages capital investments, accelerates responsible AI adoption, and delivers measurable business outcomes.

The Director uses market insights and solid stakeholder relationships to understand customer needs and emerging technology trends, identifying new opportunities or adjusting current products. Drawing on deep product knowledge and technical expertise, the Director coordinates portfolio delivery with business capability, engineering, and business operations leaders and other cross-functional teams. A background in computer science, engineering, or a related field is typical for this role, though equivalent experience is also considered.

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.

• Define and execute the integrated Optum Rx AI-Native Pharmacy product strategy, product vision, and capability roadmaps across Pharmacy lines of business in partnership with business capability owners, engineering, and operations stakeholders, embedding an AI-first mindset in roadmap decisions
• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle, from intake and discovery through delivery, adoption, operational performance, and retirement
• Partner with business, operations, engineering, architecture, and data teams to translate strategic priorities into scalable AI-driven product capabilities
• Accelerate responsible AI adoption across Pharmacy lines of business, including AI-assisted workflows, decision support, documentation, and operational automation
• Own the integrated AI-Native Pharmacy investment portfolio, aligning spend, capacity, and sequencing to enterprise strategy, priorities, and business outcomes
• Collaborate with business capability owners to lead product intake, prioritization, funding recommendations, and transparent trade-off decisions across competing initiatives and lines of business
• Develop annual and multi-year capital plans, business cases, capital committee submissions, and investment roadmaps in partnership with Finance and business capability leaders
• Establish a unified portfolio roadmap that brings the capability roadmaps together and integrates milestones, dependencies, risks, funding, capacity, technical debt, and expected benefits
• Oversee budget, forecast, burn rate, budget-to-actual variance, and funding reallocation to the highest-value opportunities
• Partner with business capability owners to operate portfolio governance cadences through executive dashboards, monthly and quarterly reviews, key performance indicator (KPI) and management by objectives (MBO) reporting, and concise risk narratives
• Drive portfolio simplification…