Associate Technical Product Manager

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Have you been driving your organization to embrace a DevSecOps culture? Do you enjoy moving IT organizations through the evolution to the cloud? Bring us your passion and energy for developing top – notch security solutions, and you will be rewarded with opportunities and challenge! In this Associate Technical Product Manager role, not only will you be responsible for supporting the development, communication, and implementation of the organization's security product strategy, but you will passionately support our security adoption user experience. The Associate Technical Product Manager is responsible for multiple workstreams for multiple products. They support the delivery team by ensuring priorities are organized and broken down into actionable component parts. They are responsible for implementing productivity measures to track and improve the efficiency and speed of the delivery teams. The Associate Technical Product Manager ensures that the blockers that inhibit delivery are identified and communicated to senior leadership with full transparency. If you live near Eden Prairie, MN, you will enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid-remote role as you take on some tough challenges.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree OR 3+ years of equivalent work experience
1+ years of experience facilitating discussions with technical delivery teams and engaging them in agile best practices and adoption
1+ years of experience effectively communicating and building relationships across multiple teams, stakeholders, and leadership and ability to work independently with minimal direction
1+ years of experience documenting “Definition of Done” to ensure it is clearly understood and articulated to stakeholders across the enterprise
1+ years of experience leveraging AI to drive automation and efficiency

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in technology related field (ex: Computer Science, MIS, Data Engineering)
Acumen with product management tools like Aha, Rally, GitHub, and an understanding of DevOps
Knowledge of modern security enterprise technologies (ex: SAST, Infra, CWP, CSPM, Infrastructure as Code, IAM, DAST, DLP, Data at Rest, AI, networking) function and how to secure them
Knowledge of “shift left” CI/CD automation techniques and security tools
Ability to understand industry standard architecture and design patterns

Responsibilities

Serves as the SCRUM master for the delivery and product teams
Responsible for sprint life cycle planning including ceremonies and sprint backlog
Facilitates standups with delivery and product manager and ensures effective organization and work breakdown that is transparent and consumable to delivery and product teams
Is the agile subject matter expert and partners with delivery and product to enable successful development, delivery, and adoption of agile best practices
Supports product vision, strategy, objectives, and outcomes for security transformation
Is accountable to the product manager who owns the product domain and ensures work is aligned with features, goals, and strategic outcomes
Identifies and documents roadblocks as well as their source, and reports on the impact of delivery and product leadership
Acquires security domain expertise to credibly represent, manage and engage with delivery and product
Keeps up to date with latest agile and SCRUM innovations and product offerings within UHG and the marketplace