Sr. Digital Product Manager - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Minnetonka, MN

17h•Remote

About The Position

At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Our mission is to make data trustworthy and actionable so teams can deliver smarter consumer experiences. We are evolving the Experience Data Platform to unify fragmented data and enable AI-ready, real-time activation that simplifies and personalizes healthcare. This role plays a key part in delivering capabilities partners can adopt quickly and operate with confidence. You will thrive here if you enjoy complex problems, cross-functional collaboration, and visible impact. Reporting to the Director, Data Strategy & Stewardship, the Sr. Digital Product Manager is an individual contributor who turns business needs and data strategy into shippable capabilities on the Experience Data Platform. Embedded with an assigned engineering pod, they lead discovery, define features and epics for one or more data product areas, and partner with the Lead Digital Product Manager to translate business needs into clear, prioritized work. The Sr. Digital Product Manager manages the product backlog and end-to-end delivery for their assigned epics and features with their engineering pod. Working in an Agile Scrum environment, they lead key ceremonies, coordinate with Engineering and other delivery teams, and ensure high-quality, on-time releases that meet business, technical, and compliance standards. Success in this role requires strong product management skills, experience with agile engineering teams, and the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical partners. The Sr. Digital Product Manager balances trade-offs between scope, timing, and quality, contributes to roadmap planning, and maintains transparency and alignment across stakeholders. 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 or equivalent practical experience in a related field
4+ years of demonstrated Product Owner experience in Agile/Scrum (or equivalent), including end-to-end delivery, backlog ownership, and sprint planning in complex environments
Experience serving as Product Owner for an embedded engineering pod (or equivalent), driving prioritization and managing delivery trade-offs
Experience translating business needs and user insights into epics, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria
Experience partnering across Architecture, Engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities
Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities while maintaining delivery focus and accountability
Demonstrated ability to build trust and collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders
Demonstrated solid written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to drive alignment across technical and non-technical teams and provide executive-ready updates
Demonstrated solid analytical and problem-solving skills, using data and metrics to assess performance and inform decisions

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with modern cloud data and analytics platforms (e.g., Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI/Tableau, Adobe Experience Platform)
Experience supporting enterprise-scale consumer data platforms and data domains (e.g., ingestion, transformation, publishing)
Experience analyzing and synthesizing data to inform roadmap priorities, identify risks/opportunities, and recommend actions
Experience using product and delivery tooling (e.g., Aha!, Rally, or similar) to manage work, dependencies, and delivery reporting
Familiarity leveraging AI-enabled tools to accelerate analysis, reporting, and/or product workflow (e.g., automated insights, anomaly detection, AI-assisted documentation)
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

Responsibilities

Write and refine epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria that guide the assigned engineering pod and reflect data quality, compliance, and performance requirements
Partner with the Lead Digital Product Manager to translate strategy and roadmap into clear, prioritized work for the pod and related delivery teams
Serve as product owner for an assigned engineering pod, managing the product backlog and sprint planning to ensure aligned, predictable delivery
Support creation and refinement of product roadmaps by providing delivery insights, risks, and recommendations from the pod’s work
Lead and participate in agile ceremonies (e.g., backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives) with the pod, ensuring transparency across progress, risks, and decisions
Partner with Engineering lead to calibrate sprint load using historical velocity, accurate story point hygiene, and team capacity (holidays, interrupts), and adjust mid sprint when risk materializes
Owner of Definition of Ready (DoR). Ensure every story/feature meets a documented DoR (clear scope, dependencies identified, test approach, data requirements, and acceptance criteria) before it can be planned
Own Definition of Done. Verify each story/feature satisfies DoD (tests passed, documentation updated, telemetry added, quality checks met, release notes prepared) prior to completion
Support and maintain documentation stewardship. Keep feature specs, data flow diagrams, decision logs, and user guides current in the team’s knowledge base as part of DoD
Publish concise release notes and stakeholder updates (what changed, why it matters, how to validate, where to get help) before enabling features
Act as final functional/data quality signoff at the pod level. Explicitly validating data accuracy, lineage, performance SLOs, and compliance checks before feature release
Drive delivery across data domains such as ingestion, publishing, and transformation with the pod, coordinating dependencies with other Engineering and Architecture teams
Ensure alignment between business needs and technical execution throughout the product lifecycle by being the day-to-day product contact for the pod
Track and actively optimize key delivery milestones, dependencies, blockers, and risks for the pod to maintain visibility into capability roadmaps and upcoming releases
Incorporate feedback from stakeholders, end users, and experiments (e.g., pilots, A/B tests) into backlog refinement and future sprint planning
Analyze delivery and product usage metrics; prepare simple reports or dashboards and recommend improvements to flow, quality, and customer or stakeholder experience
Contribute to the continuous improvement of agile practices and product management processes within the Data Strategy & Stewardship team
Serve as a resource to junior team members (where applicable) by sharing best practices and providing informal guidance when needed
Perform other duties as assigned