VP, Technology Product Management - FinTech

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

1d•$200,400 - $343,500•Hybrid

About The Position

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. The VP, Technology Product Management – FinTech owns the technology product strategy and the associated enterprise P&L performance for a portfolio of Optum Financials consumer-facing and enterprise financial platforms. This leader sets direction for innovative, scalable, and secure solutions at the intersection of financial services and healthcare - including payments, financial accounts, lending, and treasury management products that improve customer experience, affordability, healthcare integration. Operating as an enterprise steward, this role partners with business segment P&L owners to translate strategy into outcomes at scale, shaping market-facing FinTech products that deliver revenue growth, margin expansion, and improved customer experience. 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

15+ years of executive leadership experience in product management, FinTech, or healthcare financial platforms
Proven track record of owning or contributed to P&L performance and delivering revenue growth and profitability at scale
Deep expertise across one or more financial domains (payments, financial accounts, lending, and treasury management)
Experience owning enterprise product portfolios and leading through senior leadership layers
Demonstrated ability to influence C-suite stakeholders and enterprise strategy in highly matrixed environments
Experience operating in regulated environments across financial services and/or healthcare
Solid track record of building, scaling, and evolving leadership teams and capabilities
Expertise in modern product operating models, data-driven decision making, and platform-based delivery
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 multi-year FinTech product strategy and portfolio roadmap aligned to enterprise priorities and market opportunity in partnership with segment P&L owners and product management
Translates enterprise strategy into clear technology product priorities, sequencing investments across growth, risk, cost, and resilience
Shapes market direction across financial-healthcare integrated solutions, including payments, financial accounts, lending, and treasury management services and affordability solutions
Resolves trade-offs across portfolios, balancing innovation with regulatory, operational, and financial constraints
Leads the technology product P&L accountability, in partnership with business segment P&L owners, for the FinTech product portfolio, including revenue, margin, cost structure, and long-range financial performance
Partners with product management to set direction for pricing, monetization, and commercial strategy, including transaction-based and value-based models
Facilitates investment prioritization and capital allocation decisions in partnership with product management and finance
Balances growth, customer outcomes, and cost discipline, ensuring sustainable and scalable value realization
Operates as a trusted partner to clients and executives, leading strategic engagement with employers, health plans, providers, ecosystem partners, and internal partners
May represent Optum technology externally, shaping client, consultant, and market perspectives on healthcare-financial innovation
Influences enterprise technology decisions without positional authority, aligning stakeholders around product and growth strategy
Brings external market signals and trends into FinTech product strategy and prioritization
Owns product outcomes across platforms and ecosystems, not individual initiatives
Sets direction for modern product operating models, ensuring alignment across product, customer experience, engineering, data, and operations
Ensures scalable, secure, and resilient platforms supporting regulated financial and healthcare transactions
Leads through senior leaders (VPs/Directors), establishing accountability for consistent, high-quality delivery outcomes
Shapes enterprise adoption of AI, automation, and digital capabilities to transform financial and healthcare experiences
Expands platform ecosystems through partnerships with FinTechs, banks, payment networks, and healthcare stakeholders
Sets direction for build/buy/partner decisions to accelerate innovation and scale
Focuses innovation on enterprise value creation, not point solutions or experimentation
Acts as a business-oriented technology executive accountable for value realization from technology and product investments
Ensures compliance, security, and risk management across financial and healthcare regulatory environments
Optimizes operating models and cost structures to enable scale, resiliency, and flexibility
Uses data and transparency to drive enterprise-level decisions and performance management
Builds enterprise-grade leadership capability through layered leadership, not direct execution
Shapes culture through leader behavior, driving accountability, inclusion, and psychological safety
Leads workforce evolution, aligning talent, skills, and digital capabilities to enterprise needs
Sets talent strategy for technology product management capability and leadership depth