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

About Optum Insight

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.

Role Overview

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.

Primary Responsibilities

Network Optimization Product Strategy

• 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

Roadmap Ownership, Prioritization & Delivery

• 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

Technical Product Leadership & Data Alignment

• 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

Agile Execution & Operational Excellence

• 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

Customer Outcomes & Product Performance

• 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

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence

• 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

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications

• 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

Key Skills Required

• 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.

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $112,700 - $193,200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.