Lead Technical Product Manager Job Woodbury area,Minnesota USA,Business

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Job Description - Lead Technical Product Manager (2385966)

Lead Technical Product Manager - 2385966

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 to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

As a Lead Technical Product Manager within Optum Technology, you will drive product strategy, backlog management, and technical feature execution supporting UHC HEDIS® Retrospective and Prospective projects. This program is a strategic quality platform that transforms clinical and administrative data into actionable insights, enabling healthcare organizations to proactively improve member outcomes, close care gaps, and deliver accurate, compliant quality reporting that supports accreditation, regulatory requirements, and STAR performance.

In this full-time telecommuter role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering, architecture, and business teams to deliver scalable quality technology solutions and optimize platform capabilities.

Primary Responsibilities:

Experience with HEDIS® specifications and NCQA requirements
Own and execute technical product features, user stories, and multi-quarter release roadmaps for UHC HEDIS® Retrospective and Prospective quality platform solutions
Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily agile ceremonies alongside engineering and system architecture teams
Use enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive continuous improvement across product management practices
Partner with clinical data analysts, software engineers, and healthcare operations stakeholders to translate complex clinical data requirements into clear technical specifications
Establish and monitor product performance metrics (KPIs) to track platform adoption, feature reliability, and data processing efficiency for STAR quality reporting
Manage product risks, resolve operational bottlenecks, and evaluate emerging trends to inform solution design and strategic innovation
Facilitate cross-functional communication and change management across United Healthcare and Optum Technology teams to ensure seamless platform deployments

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction 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 or 4+ years of equivalent product or business operations experience
6+ years of experience in technical product management, technical program management, systems analysis or technical business operations
4+ years of experience defining technical product roadmaps, writing user stories, and prioritizing backlogs in an Agile/Scrum environment
3+ years of experience leveraging data analytics and performance metrics (KPIs/OKRs) to drive product strategy and feature delivery
Experience with HEDIS® specifications and NCQA requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

Certified Product Owner (CPO), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) certification
2+ years of experience with HEDIS® measures, STAR ratings, or healthcare quality reporting platforms
Experience utilizing enterprise-approved AI or digital productivity tools to optimize backlog grooming, requirements writing, or…