Optum · 1 month ago
Sr Principal Product Manager - Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$113K/yr - $193K/yr
8+ years expOptum is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The Sr. Principal Product Manager will serve as the business champion for Enterprise Cloud Platform solutions, working closely with cloud providers to develop and maintain a strategy for cloud transformation and optimization. This role involves defining platform strategy, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring that the cloud platform meets the needs of healthcare providers and administrators.
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Responsibilities
Develop platform strategy: Collaborate with cross-functions to define the overall product strategy, aligning it with the business goals and objectives
Product plan and roadmap: Create and maintain a platform roadmap that outlines the platform vision, key features, and timeline for development
Define platform-level functional and non‑functional requirements (availability, performance expectations, cost drivers) in collaboration with engineering and cloud architecture teams
Prioritize initiatives based on business impact, internal and external customer needs, and development capacity
Lead a team of Platform product owners and product managers, provide coaching and development of individuals to lead a cohesive platform mission
Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with engineering, Cloud-Ops, Peer Product management for applications, Services and GTM/Sales teams to ensure successful development, release and GTM plan for platform services
Understand and communicate cloud cost impacts of platform decisions, supporting FinOps practices at a product level (e.g., cost-to-serve insights, right-sizing considerations) while partnering with Cloud Ops and Finance
Partner with Engineering to evaluate major cloud platform decisions (e.g., service selection, scaling approaches) from a business, customer, and product perspective, without taking on architectural design
Ensure platform roadmap decisions align with SaaS operational needs, including observability, reliability, maintainability, and upgrade paths
In partnership with Cloud providers and Cloud Ops teams, drive cloud resource optimization, cost efficiency of cloud storage, compute and related resources to support P&L view of cloud consumption overall across all Enterprise Imaging applications and services
Leverage internal synergies with broader Optum organization on cloud environment, consumption, and efficiencies
Engage and support customer conversations as the cloud platform SME for new sales opportunities or support during implementation
Develop and maintain cloud vendor relations, working closely with the Business development team on contracts, pricing, resourcing and support needs
Serve as subject matter expert for cloud platform working closely with engineering and Cloud-Ops teams and support sales and services to provide strategic direction, functional and operational capabilities
Serve as subject matter expert for our public cloud provider to support the Enterprise Imaging portfolio of cloud products, including sizing of cloud resources, cost-effective utilization of cloud compute, storage and communication
Drive consistency and innovation in the use of cloud technology across Enterprise Imaging cloud solutions
Serve as a point of contact to bring vendor partners into activities with key customers as necessary
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
8+ years as a Product Manager and 3+ years as a Product Owner
5+ years with cloud platform and applications
2+ years of experience with health platforms, health IT, or healthcare imaging
Proven solid understanding of core cloud concepts such as object storage, compute elasticity, networking basics, and managed service offerings
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cloud architects and engineering teams to make informed tradeoffs regarding scalability, performance, and cost
Demonstrated ability to translate customer requirements into platform capabilities for a modern SaaS environment
Ability to travel up to 25%
Preferred
Master's degree in computer science, or information technology or equivalent graduate degree
Cloud Certification from Google Cloud or competitive Cloud Provider(s)
10+ years of experience in product management
5+ years of experience managing direct reports such as Product Owners and Product Managers
5+ years in cloud platform and SaaS transformation
Experience in healthcare and Clinical IT domain
Experience supporting or productizing a multi tenant SaaS platform, including conceptual understanding of tenancy models and operational impacts
Experience working with cloud architects and engineering teams to assess public cloud services for use in production SaaS offerings
Effectively managing products through key stages of the lifecycle in a regulated industry
Delivering IT infrastructure solutions to the healthcare provider market
Evaluating public cloud infrastructure capabilities for use in cloud-native SaaS products Specific experience with Google Cloud Platform is highly preferred
Expertise in cloud resource (compute, storage, network) optimization, capacity planning, cost effective solutions to manage multi-tenant systems in the public cloud
Knowledge of dynamic scaling, multitenancy, and solutions delivering performance at scale in the public cloud environment
Familiarity with observability concepts (monitoring, logging, basic SLI/SLO frameworks) in collaboration with platform engineering teams
Knowledge of Health IT interoperability standards such as DICOM and HL7/FHIR
Successful track record of developing cloud services and cloud solutions
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
A comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
Flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.
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Company
Optum
Optum provides primary care and optical care services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Late StageLeadership Team
Alexander Rachmiel
Vice President & Chief of Staff to CEO, Optum Health
Amanda Roberts
CEO, Community Care Services, Optum Serve
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