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

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

7h•$112,700 - $193,200•Remote

About The Position

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? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 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.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in healthcare, including product management, technology, or analytics-driven environments
5+ years in product management roles supporting complex, data-driven healthcare products or platforms
5+ years of experience in payer and/or provider network domains, with solid expertise in network data, workflows, performance management, cost-of-care, and network optimization analytics
5+ years supporting go-to-market activities, including product positioning, value proposition development, client-facing demos, and sales enablement in partnership with product marketing
Demonstrated experience translating network and healthcare analytics, along with complex business problems, into product strategy, roadmap decisions, and measurable business outcomes
Experience bridging technical and non-technical audiences, including translating complex network and analytics concepts for business, commercial, and client stakeholders
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across product, engineering, analytics, UX, and business stakeholders in a highly matrixed environment
Proven solid track record of product commercialization and solution delivery, bringing analytics-driven and network-focused products to market successfully
Proven clear and credible communicator with the ability to simplify complex concepts and influence diverse stakeholder groups
Solid product strategy ownership for analytics-driven healthcare products with clear success measures and business outcomes
Deep understanding of payer and provider network management and analytics use cases, including network adequacy, steerage, leakage, provider performance, cost efficiency, and cost-of-care
Ability to translate complex network, actuarial, clinical, and analytical concepts into scalable product requirements, workflows, and decisions
Experience owning roadmap and backlog prioritization across delivery stages while managing dependencies tied to data, models, and integrations
Proven ability to drive adoption, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver measurable impact from analytics-driven products in matrixed environments
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy
Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Responsibilities

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
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
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
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 workstreams
Partners with delivery leadership on capacity planning, sequencing, and execution readiness across engineering, analytics, and integration workstreams
Identifies execution risks related to data availability, model readiness, integration dependencies, or decision latency and drives mitigation plans early
Owns success metrics for the Network Optimization module, including financial impact, adoption, usability, operational performance, and value realization
Runs continuous discovery, testing, and validation to ensure the team is solving the highest-value network optimization problems
Partners with internal and external stakeholders to validate product direction, workflow usability, and the value of optimization insights in real-world use
Drives continuous improvement of optimization capabilities based on performance data, stakeholder feedback, and adoption trends
Communicates product outcomes, tradeoffs, progress, and risks clearly and credibly across highly matrixed senior stakeholders
Collaborates closely with engineering, data science, network operations, actuarial, clinical, and business teams
Communicates product decisions, tradeoffs, and progress related to the Network Optimization module to senior stakeholders
Anticipates cross-module dependencies and proactively addresses alignment challenges within Value Connect
Navigates competing priorities through data-driven, customer-centric decision-making