Senior Product Manager, Payer or Provider - Network Strategy and Optimization - Remote

Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives?

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The Senior Product Manager - Network Strategy & Optimization is responsible for owning the strategy, prioritization, and execution of the Network Optimization module within the Value Connect platform. This role focuses on capabilities that help payers and providers optimize provider networks across access, cost, quality, and performance, enabling more informed, data-driven network decisions and measurable business outcomes.

This role sits at the intersection of product management, healthcare network strategy, and analytics-driven product delivery. The ideal candidate brings a balanced combination of strengths across three areas: product strategy ownership, domain depth in payer/provider network management and analytics, and solid technical and analytical fluency to partner with engineering, UX, and data science. This is not a generic senior product role, a pure technical or data PM role, or a network operations role.

It requires a product leader who can translate complex network optimization problems into scalable product capabilities, lead disciplined roadmap and backlog decisions, and drive measurable adoption, performance, and financial impact in a highly matrixed environment.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Network Optimization Product Strategy

* Owns the product vision and strategy for the Network Optimization module within Value Connect, with clear accountability for business value, client relevance, and module performance

* Defines clear product goals, problem statements, and outcome-based success measures tied to network cost, access, performance, and operational efficiency

* Identifies and prioritizes optimization use cases such as network adequacy, steerage, leakage reduction, provider performance, cost efficiency, and cost-of-care improvement

* Partners with network, actuarial, clinical, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions align to real-world network management workflows, analytics needs, and decision-making processes

* Uses customer, market, competitive, and performance insights to inform product tradeoffs, sequencing decisions, and ongoing optimization strategy

* Roadmap Ownership, Prioritization & Delivery

* Owns the end-to-end product roadmap and backlog for the Network Optimization module, from roadmap definition through sprint-level execution

* Drives prioritization across the product roadmap, product backlog, and sprint backlog based on business value, technical feasibility, data readiness, and delivery risk

* Ensures delivery sequencing maximizes measurable financial impact, customer adoption, usability, and operational performance

* Partners with engineering, UX, and data science to define delivery plans, success metrics, and acceptance criteria tied to network optimization outcomes

* Actively manages delivery risks and sequencing decisions tied to data availability, model readiness, integration dependencies, and cross-team capacity constraints

* Technical Product Leadership & Data Alignment

Serves as the primary product partner to engineering, UX, and data science teams delivering network optimization analytics, workflows, and decision-support capabilities

* Translates optimization use cases into clear functional requirements, workflow expectations, data needs, and acceptance criteria

* Ensures solutions align to Value Connect shared data models, analytics standards, and architectural patterns to support scale and reuse

* Identifies opportunities to reuse data assets, analytical logic, and workflows across Value Connect modules where it improves consistency and speed to value

* Balances near-term delivery with long-term scalability, performance, explainability, and data quality across analytics-driven capabilities

* Agile Execution & Operational Excellence

* Applies agile product management best practices to drive predictable, high-quality delivery of network optimization capabilities

* Reinforces a shared Definition of Done for analytics-driven features, models, and insights in partnership with engineering and data teams

* Uses agile planning and product development tools to manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery transparency across work streams

* Partners with delivery leadership on capacity planning, sequencing, and execution readiness across engineering, analytics, and…