Senior Director Behavioral Product Development – Telecommute

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The Optum Behavioral Product Organization is looking for a Senior Director of Product Development.

They will be responsible for developing and executing new product, service, capability, and feature priorities focused on delivering more behavioral health value and growth across markets (including employer, payer, and government). The position will report to the Senior Vice President of Health Solutions and Behavioral Product and lead key priorities within the new development portfolio focused on new business verticals and growth. The candidate will work with strategic business partners across UnitedHealth Group as well as in the broader health care marketplace to generate opportunities that will enable the creation of new business verticals and growth generating products. The candidate will need to understand the dynamics of the UHG enterprise and of the external marketplace (including customers, competitors, providers, partners, government sector, consumers, etc) to create a strong vision and plan and ability to execute the plan inside and outside of UnitedHealth Group. The candidate will execute select priorities end to end from establishing the strategy, mobilizing, developing, partnering, implementing, and managing the work and teams. The position will be required to navigate the Enterprise, work across broad functional teams, and communicate and partner with other teams and leaders to deliver on the vision.

The candidate must have demonstrated business success and a proven track record of new product, service, capability, and feature development. The Senior Director of Product Development will have accountability to create and fully execute the product and capability development plans and will be accountable for owning the outcome including the successful establishment and sustainability of all new opportunities. The work that this candidate does will help shape the transformational efforts of the Behavioral business longer term.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Creating strategies, priorities, plans, as well as executing those plans for new product, service, capability and feature development efforts that will help evolve and transform the Behavioral business into the future
• Focus on helping the health system to work better for people with behavioral needs
• Create new products and capabilities for the Behavioral business that generate growth in the external markets (could include focus on payer, provider, employer, government, and direct to consumer markets)
• Accelerating product development efforts that enable growth and execution in the external markets
• Collaborate with other Behavioral and Health Solutions businesses to execute on partnership opportunities
• Spending time in the market understanding the landscape (customers, competitors, providers, partners, government sector, consumers, etc) as well as time internal to UHG executing, developing, and implementing
• Ensuring performance and sustainability of whatever is developed/built and potentially managing the product or capability longer term
• Ensure that business, products, capabilities meet established short and long-range goals
• Partner with teams across the organization to advance partnerships and priorities
• Cultivate relationships with strategic partners to support Behavioral objectives
• Significantly contribute to innovation, continuous improvement, and other organizational change
• Contribute to a product culture that embraces change, transformation, and new business opportunities and continuous improvement

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 be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant healthcare industry experience with product development and commercializing new assets
• Experience helping people with complex healthcare needs live better
• Experience working with the health care delivery system
• Robust understanding of current technologies, third party vendors, agile development and consumer acquisition, utilization, and retention funnels
• Proven track record of building, deploying, delivering, and successfully navigating within a large, complex organization
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20%
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifcations:

• Self-starter with the demonstrated ability to own and deliver new product and capability development (From initial vision all the way through execution and the establishment of successful and sustainable products and capabilities)
• Ability to work nimbly across multiple projects, with fast-paced, iterative product development cycles
• Ability to work effectively with senior leaders and cross functional teams at all levels
• Flexibility to quickly adapt and produce in a rapidly changing environment, meeting aggressive market and customer expectations
• Proven ability to build relationships and work effectively as a leader and peer with other senior functional managers including Technology, Strategy, Clinical, Operations, Sales, Finance, Legal, and Business Development.
• Passion to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.(sm)

Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $134,200 to $257,700. The salary range for Connecticut / Nevada residents is $134,200 to $257,700. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. 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.

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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.