Business Product Owner - Remote

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.

The Business Product Owner serves as a senior leader and strategic driver on the enterprise ID card team for United Healthcare. This role has an emphasis on enterprise-wide influence, cross-functional leadership, and strategic product ownership. You will lead the business strategy for the ID card initiatives, which includes launch readiness, defect remediation, testing coordination, and alignment with Operations and Marketing teams. You will own and evolve the product vision, backlog, and roadmap, and serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams. This role demands a high level of autonomy, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Champion Agile development methodology across multiple scrum teams, providing strategic direction and mentorship to development and QA teams
• Drive product strategy and roadmap aligned with enterprise goals and customer needs
• Represent cross-functional business partners to transform vision into actionable requirements and ensure alignment across teams
• Serve as the senior 'voice of the customer' across delivery teams, reinforcing customer-centricity throughout the product lifecycle
• Lead business analysis efforts by gathering, documenting, and refining detailed requirements, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs and translating them into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria
• Own and prioritize the Product Backlog at both feature and user story levels, ensuring transparency and alignment with business objectives
• Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives with a focus on continuous improvement and value delivery
• Drive system demos and stakeholder engagement to validate product direction and gather feedback
• Collaborate with UX, architecture, and engineering teams to shape product design and ensure technical feasibility
• Proactively identify risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure delivery success
• Ensure deliverables meet enterprise standards for quality, performance, and compliance
• Coordinate defect remediation and testing efforts across workstreams
• Partner with Operations and Marketing teams to ensure readiness and alignment for product launches
• Contribute to a culture of innovation and excellence

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 Product Management or related roles within the Healthcare Business/IT industry
• 5+ years acting as a Product Owner in large-scale initiatives, with proven success in business/systems analysis, roadmap execution, and stakeholder engagement
• Demonstrated expertise in defining and executing product strategy, including market analysis, persona development, and competitive positioning
• Proven solid leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• Proven deep understanding of healthcare domain, business practices, and financial structures
• Proven ability to drive cost/benefit analysis and track forecast to ensure product performance
• Experience with ID Card/ eligibility/enrollment/benefit processing is a solid asset
• Experience supporting launch readiness and defect remediation in large-scale initiatives
• Advanced proficiency in Agile tools and methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Product Owner Certification

• Equivalent business experience

*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 $110,200 to $188,800 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.