Technical Product Management - Cloud Optimization - Remote

Optum / UnitedHealth Group
Eden Prairie, MN / Remote

About the job

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Product Management to lead and scale product capabilities across our healthcare payer technology portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of business strategy, customer experience, data, and engineering, and is critical to translating customer and market insights into high impact, scalable products.

Responsibilities

Cloud Optimization Outcomes: Own and drive the identification, prioritization, and delivery of cloud optimization opportunities across compute, storage, networking, and data platforms, resulting in measurable cost and efficiency improvements

AI Driven Opportunity Discovery: Apply AI assisted analytics, Generative AI, and Agentic AI workflows to scale discovery of inefficiencies, automate recommendations, and accelerate optimization decisions

Design and build AI agents that continuously monitor cloud environments, surface emerging waste patterns, and autonomously trigger or recommend remediation actions at scale

Product Features & Execution: Define and execute a focused product roadmap for cloud optimization capabilities, translating insights into scalable features, tools, and enablement patterns

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with application teams, finance, and technology leaders to align optimization initiatives to business priorities and drive adoption and value realization

Data Driven Measurement: Define success metrics (e.g., realized savings, utilization improvements, adoption rates) and continuously refine product strategy based on outcomes and feedback

Cross Functional Leadership: Collaborate with engineering, architecture, FinOps, and operations to deliver secure, compliant, and scalable optimization solutions

Executive Communication & Governance: Prepare and deliver high-quality materials for Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), CIO briefings, and delegate meetings - including executive readouts, savings scorecards, forward-looking pipeline narratives, and strategic recommendations Ensure leadership has timely, accurate, and actionable visibility into optimization performance and priorities

Qualifications

Minimum

7+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager driving outcomes across cloud, platform, or FinOps related products

3+ years of cloud cost drivers, reserved instances drivers, optimization levers, and value realization across Azure, AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, Datacenter

1+ years of experience using AI assisted tools for product management, analysis, and decision support

Experience partnering with customers or application teams to drive adoption and behavior change

Experience translating complex technical and financial data into clear, actionable product direction

Experience in backlog management, prioritization, and agile delivery

Preferred

Experience building or scaling cloud optimization, FinOps, or cost intelligence platforms

Experience working with cross functional, globally distributed teams

Familiarity with AI governance, ethical AI practices, and compliance considerations

Background in healthcare, regulated industries, or large enterprise environments

Proven solid stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills