[Remote] Technical Product Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The Technical Product Manager will partner with business, technology, and product teams to drive product management lifecycle and develop AI-powered solutions that address complex business challenges. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders, managing user stories, and leading cross-functional team meetings to ensure successful product delivery.
Responsibilities
- Understands and effectively partners with business, technology, and product teams to identify and appropriately leverage SME's
- Partners with product managers/owners in advancing work forward to meet obligations and opportunities
- Communicates effectively to business partners an understanding of core technology enabling business functions
- Collaborate with Business Partners to gather information required for user story creation and positively influence user story outcomes
- Create user flows, features - with well-defined acceptance criteria and definition of done and get alignment with the scrum team
- Drive and take part in Feature and User story grooming for Sprint planning activities
- Ensure features are broken down into manageable user stories and user stories are directly tied to OKR's
- Manage and field scrum team questions regarding the sprint progress and attend to any blockers identified
- Understand the demand, priorities, and scrum team capacity
- Ensure features being prepared have a corresponding UX definition identified
- Create, right size, and prioritize user stories to ensure the acceptance criteria in the feature is met
- Must be able to work with offshore teams
- Create opportunities to add features / user stories into the common product backlog and help refine
- Prioritize and re-evaluate requirements throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure business objectives and product vision are being met
- Attend scrum team demos and offer constructive feedback
- Effectively leads cross-functional team meetings
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with emphasis on responsible use of AI
Skills
- Bachelor's degree
- 1+ years of experience with software development concepts and reading and interpreting technical documentation as well as working with developers, solution architects and other technical staff
- 1+ years of experience in driving the product management lifecycle and design and development of end-to-end products and workflows; drive and support integration strategies and approaches, persona development and journey mapping
- 1+ years of experience in monitoring capital budget at feature/scrum team level
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- Flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S.
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