Lead product discovery, roadmap and backlog prioritization, and Agile delivery for technical products. Collaborate with engineering, design, analytics, and business partners to validate data models, prototype solutions, ensure compliance, and deliver high-value features.
Requisition Number: 2344339
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Our Technical Product Manager is responsible for maximizing product value by driving product discovery with our business partners, managing dependencies across a highly matrixed organization, refining and maintaining a healthy delivery backlog and working alongside OPEN Engineering, Design and our Business stakeholders.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities:
Product Management:
Technical Expertise:
Data & Analytics Fluency
Product Discovery
You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Our Technical Product Manager is responsible for maximizing product value by driving product discovery with our business partners, managing dependencies across a highly matrixed organization, refining and maintaining a healthy delivery backlog and working alongside OPEN Engineering, Design and our Business stakeholders.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities:
Product Management:
- Roadmap Planning: Create and maintain the product roadmap for outlining the development timeline and major milestones
- Backlog Management: Prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring that the team is working on features that deliver the most value
- Work with tech teams, business users, and business partners to understand requirements
- Lead SCRUM agile ceremonies for the team (sprint refinement, planning & review)
Technical Expertise:
- Stay abreast of technological advancements and industry trends to inform product development
- Understand complex technical issues and facilitate problem-solving discussions
- Ensure the product adheres to technical, security, compliance and regulatory standards
Data & Analytics Fluency
- Work closely with Business Analysts and Data Analysts to understand the business data domain, key entities, metrics, and relationships underpinning the product
- Collaborate with analysts to validate data models, definitions, and assumptions before development begins, ensuring shared understanding across product, data, and engineering
- Ensure data models and analytical logic are reviewed and validated by analysts before being used to deliver endtoend product features
- Maintain a working understanding of the end-to-end data flow to support sequencing, prioritisation, and tradeoff discussions with engineering and analytics partners
Product Discovery
- Collaborate with tech leads and engineers to explore solution options before committing work into delivery
- Use prototypes where possible to validate assumptions early and reduce rework-e.g., UI wireframes, API contract mockups, query prototypes, sample dashboards, or proof-of-concept spikes
- Capture discovery outcomes into backlog items so work entering a sprint is feasible, understood, and appropriately sized
You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field
- Proven extensive experience in product development
- Demonstrated excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated proficiency in Agile methodologies and product management tools
- Proven ability to analyze complex data and make informed decisions
- Proven experience and understanding of software development lifecycle and technologies
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
Top Skills
Scrum,Agile,Apis,Ui Wireframes,Data Modeling,Analytics,Dashboards,Software Development Lifecycle
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