You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.At UnitedHealthcare , we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities, and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us and start doing your life’s best work. SMThe Adaptive Portal Product Owner is primarily responsible for working directly with stakeholders to define and/or analyze their business requirements, documenting complete functional specifications, user acceptance testing, and creating mock-ups and prototypes as needed.In this role, you will contribute to the design, specifications, configuration, acceptance testing, and deployment required for successful implementation. The Product represents stakeholders in our Agile environment, acting as the voice for business users and their needs. This position works closely with Product Management to ascertain business needs and user objectives and to determine best-value options for solving problems. The PO then translates these higher-level requirements into user stories and success criteria that are granular enough to be implemented through our agile teams.The Product Owner is a valued team member in iteration planning, backlog maintenance, sprint reviews/retrospectives and product demonstrations; maintaining open communication across stakeholders so each item receives the support needed to be successful. The Product Owner’s functionality expertise is invaluable during design and launching, guiding technical, development and QA teams to making crucial functional decisions.This position is full-time, Monday - Friday. Employees are required to work our normal business hours of 8:00am – 5:00pm. It may be necessary, given the business need, to work occasional overtime or weekends.All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.Primary Responsibilities:
Provides explanations and interpretations within area of domain expertise:
Optum Adaptive Portal
Provides domain knowledge by conferring with internal/external stakeholders and subject matter experts, understanding system flow, operational work processes, reporting needs, and regulatory impact.
Acts as the primary communication conduit for all development activity including:
Facilitates all requirement-gathering activities including meetings, JAD sessions, etc.
Keeps stakeholders, subject matter experts, business areas and IT apprised of all project development through day-to day engagement with various activities.
Provides use cases and interface designs to appropriate teams when necessary.
Interprets the business needs of a customer and translates them into application and operational requirements with the help of strong analytical and product management.
Develops business context diagrams (e.g., business data flows, process flows) to analyze/confirm the definition of project requirements.
Defines desired future state requirements based on input from all applicable stakeholders .
Identifies capability gaps between current state and desired state (e.g., system capacity, emerging technologies)
Creates, analyzes and validates detailed functional specifications by using flow charts, activity diagrams, and operational workflow analysis.
Collaborates with strategic stakeholders to identify key deliverables to continuously enhance the members/customers’ experience.
Partners with Product Management and Product Directors to define the business needs and vision/business value.
Creates and manage the product/team backlog through partnership with business stakeholders and agile teams and coordinates work priority within the sprint.
Ensures traceability between requirements to Features to user stories.
Incorporates epics, themes, business problems and features into concise user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint.
Conducts and/or supports testing activities, as appropriate (e.g., production testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, production validation, compliance with test scenarios)
Plans/executes user testing scenarios/scripts and prepare test data.
Translates problems/issues identified during the testing/piloting process, and engages the appropriate stakeholders (e.g., business, IT) to help identify impact and potential solutions .
Communicates testing results to appropriate stakeholders (e.g., business owners, operations groups, project team)
Provides ongoing support to ensure proper implementation and adoption of the solution (e.g., post-deployment support, definition/monitoring of control plans)
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:
High School Diploma / GED
2+ years of experience in a business analysis OR development role (requirements gathering, design, development, test, and implementation)
1+ years of product ownership experience within an Agile framework
1+ years of Project management experience (process improvement evaluation and planning)
Experience with Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, Create / Edit, Formula Management)
Experience with Microsoft Word (Creating / Editing / Managing documents)
Must be 18 years of age OR older
Ability to work our normal business hours of 8:00am – 5:00pm, Monday - Friday
Preferred Qualifications:
2+ years of experience working in one of these domains (UMR CPS, Aerial / Optum, Clinical Knowledge, Optum Adaptive Portal)
Experience with Microsoft Visio
Experience with the way data is structured in one of these domains (UMR CPS, Aerial / Optum, Clinical Knowledge, Optum Adaptive Portal)
Telecommuting Requirements:
Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure (if applicable)
Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separated from other living areas and provides information privacy
Must live in a location that can receive a UnitedHealth Group approved high-speed internet connection or leverage an existing high-speed internet service
Soft Skills:
Ability to manage multiple projects and multiple stakeholders
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Washington or Rhode Island Residents Only: The annual range for California / Colorado / Connecticut / Hawaii / Nevada / New York / New Jersey / Washington / Rhode Island residents is $58,300 - $114,300 per year. 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.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.#RPO #GREEN
