Principle Product Manager - Enterprise Cloud Platform - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

1d•Remote

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. The Sr. Principal Product Manager – Enterprise Cloud Platform, serves as the business champion for Enterprise Cloud Platform solutions across Enterprise Imaging product lines. Optum Enterprise Imaging provides cloud and on-premises solutions for multi-specialty care areas such as diagnostic radiology, cardiology, and other care area solutions. Cloud Platform provides infrastructure and services for clinical workflow, vendor neutral archive and enterprise viewing solutions for healthcare providers and administrators. In this role, you'll maintain an innovative and compelling Platform strategy for IT applications in Health IT domain, including infrastructure such as edge devices. You will be responsible for working closely with cloud providers to adopt and maintain a strategy for cloud transformation and optimization. The Sr. Principal Product Manager will translate customer and business needs around IT infrastructure and services into a viable strategy for cloud platform and own the executable roadmap for the platform. The Principal Product Manager will own the cloud platform strategy that provides cost-effective, reliable and secure platform for business application. The ideal candidate brings strong familiarity with cloud‑native SaaS delivery models, including concepts such as multi‑tenancy, workload isolation, and usage‑based cost drivers. This individual partners closely with Engineering and Cloud Ops to shape platform direction. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
8+ years as a Product Manager and 3+ years as a Product Owner
5+ years with cloud platform and applications
Solid understanding of core cloud concepts such as object storage, compute elasticity, networking basics, and managed service offerings
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cloud architects and engineering teams to make informed tradeoffs regarding scalability, performance, and cost
Demonstrated ability to translate customer requirements into platform capabilities for a modern SaaS environment

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in computer science, or information technology or equivalent graduate degree
Cloud Certification from Google Cloud or competitive Cloud Provider(s)
10+ years of experience in product management
5+ years of experience managing direct reports such as Product Owners and Product Managers
5+ years in cloud platform and SaaS transformation
Preferred experience includes
Experience in healthcare and Clinical IT domain
Experience supporting or productizing a multi tenant SaaS platform, including conceptual understanding of tenancy models and operational impacts
Experience working with cloud architects and engineering teams to assess public cloud services for use in production SaaS offerings
Effectively managing products through key stages of the lifecycle in a regulated industry
Delivering IT infrastructure solutions to the healthcare provider market
Evaluating public cloud infrastructure capabilities for use in cloud-native SaaS products Specific experience with Google Cloud Platform is highly preferred
Expertise in cloud resource (compute, storage, network) optimization, capacity planning, cost effective solutions to manage multi-tenant systems in the public cloud
Knowledge of dynamic scaling, multitenancy, and solutions delivering performance at scale in the public cloud environment
Familiarity with observability concepts (monitoring, logging, basic SLI/SLO frameworks) in collaboration with platform engineering teams
Knowledge of Health IT interoperability standards such as DICOM and HL7/FHIR
Successful track record of developing cloud services and cloud solutions
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

Develop platform strategy: Collaborate with cross-functions to define the overall product strategy, aligning it with the business goals and objectives
Product plan and roadmap: Create and maintain a platform roadmap that outlines the platform vision, key features, and timeline for development
Define platform-level functional and non‑functional requirements (availability, performance expectations, cost drivers) in collaboration with engineering and cloud architecture teams
Prioritize initiatives based on business impact, internal and external customer needs, and development capacity
Lead a team of Platform product owners and product managers, provide coaching and development of individuals to lead a cohesive platform mission
Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with engineering, Cloud-Ops, Peer Product management for applications, Services and GTM/Sales teams to ensure successful development, release and GTM plan for platform services
Understand and communicate cloud cost impacts of platform decisions, supporting FinOps practices at a product level (e.g., cost-to-serve insights, right-sizing considerations) while partnering with Cloud Ops and Finance
Partner with Engineering to evaluate major cloud platform decisions (e.g., service selection, scaling approaches) from a business, customer, and product perspective, without taking on architectural design
Ensure platform roadmap decisions align with SaaS operational needs, including observability, reliability, maintainability, and upgrade paths
In partnership with Cloud providers and Cloud Ops teams, drive cloud resource optimization, cost efficiency of cloud storage, compute and related resources to support P&L view of cloud consumption overall across all Enterprise Imaging applications and services
Leverage internal synergies with broader Optum organization on cloud environment, consumption, and efficiencies
Engage and support customer conversations as the cloud platform SME for new sales opportunities or support during implementation
Develop and maintain cloud vendor relations, working closely with the Business development team on contracts, pricing, resourcing and support needs
Serve as subject matter expert for cloud platform working closely with engineering and Cloud-Ops teams and support sales and services to provide strategic direction, functional and operational capabilities
Serve as subject matter expert for our public cloud provider to support the Enterprise Imaging portfolio of cloud products, including sizing of cloud resources, cost-effective utilization of cloud compute, storage and communication.
Drive consistency and innovation in the use of cloud technology across Enterprise Imaging cloud solutions
Serve as a point of contact to bring vendor partners into activities with key customers as necessary