Healthcare Product Analyst - Remote

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.

Optum Insight strives to be the nation's largest enabler of value-based performance, helping risk-bearing entities (payers, at-risk providers, ACOs, aggregators, and health systems) achieve outcomes across population health, VBC performance, affordability, quality optimization, and risk adjustment performance with best-in-class technology, industry expertise, and results-driven managed services.

The Sr Product Analyst will provide strategic and technical product management support in the Value-Based Care space for Provider Enablement solutions. This role involves collaborating closely with solution owners, tech product leads, engineering teams, and other stakeholders to support business case analysis, drive product strategy through market and client research, and translate insights into recommendations for prototyping and final development by the engineering team.

The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded product analyst who can leverage a strong background in clinical and quality domains and healthcare analytics. They will excel in collaborating across cross-functional initiatives. Strong communication and presentation skills, along with the ability to work under tight deadlines while handling multiple tasks, are essential.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support multi-year technology product vision, strategy, and roadmaps tied to outcomes
• Evaluate competitive position
• Conduct market outreach to validate assumptions around assumed high-value outcomes
• Evaluate market trends to proactively identify new opportunities expand product capabilities that drive increased market share
• Facilitate synergies across the product suite targeted at shared buyers and user personas
• Provide analysis and support for end-to-end business cases and lead stakeholder alignment, including:
  
  
  
  
  • Market sizing & growth projections
  • Total cost estimation
  • Governance reviews / leadership approvals
  • High-level business requirements
  • Business goals
  • Operational workflow and outcomes
  • Functional requirements
  
  
  
  
• Support development of market sizing (including TAM, SAM, & SOM) to inform prioritization and estimate revenue growth
• Grow and expand expertise within the product management team and other contributing teams

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:

• 3+ years of professional experience the healthcare, healthcare tech, or technology sectors
• 1+ years in a role supporting clinical, quality, population health, or VBC performance optimization in any combination of the following areas: population health management, social determinants of health, population stratification, care management, case management, care delivery, clinical delivery and optimization, clinical risk identification, or clinical coding and documentation
• Ability to travel up to 10% as needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Value-Based Healthcare
• Proven ability to lead product discovery work as well as to synthesize market findings into new product/enhancement ideas
• Demonstrated ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple/detail-oriented tasks
• Proven ability to drive alignment in matrixed organization
• Demonstrated ability to influence at all levels of the organization

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $71,600 to $140,600 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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