Job Title: Technical Product Manager
Location: Remote
Job Type: Full-time
Reports To: COO Widescope Consulting & Contracting
Primary Purpose of Position:
Widescope Consulting is proud to serve our nation s military and Veterans by supporting federal agencies in their mission to improve the U.S. health care system. Our work helps enhance the health and well-being of individuals who serve or have served our country. Our solutions are designed to help everyone live healthier lives.
The Technology Product Management organization leads the design, development, and lifecycle management of products — from initial concept and planning through production, release, and retirement. Focused on both strategy and execution, the team oversees every phase of the product lifecycle for new, existing, and acquired technologies.
By leveraging market insights, customer feedback, and emerging technology trends, the organization identifies opportunities for innovation and continuously refines product offerings. Team members combine deep technical expertise with business acumen to align products with market needs and organizational goals.
Accountable to OptumServe’s business line P&L owners, the organization ensures that each product delivers strong performance and competitive value. It also manages cross-functional collaboration across design, engineering, scrum, and business leadership teams to drive cohesive product success.
Essential Functions:
- Supports capabilities under a product areaÂ
- Understands the “what & why” of user stories, their relationship to features, and how each may
- impact the user
- Demonstrates empathy for the customer journey; understands applicable personas
- Understands and effectively partners with users, business, technology, and product teams to
- delight consumers
- Identifies and appropriately leverages SMEsÂ
- Partners with product managers/owners to prioritize work to meet obligations and opportunitiesÂ
- Understands overall product strategy and roadmapÂ
- Understands the demand, priorities, and scrum team capacityÂ
- Ensures user stories are directly tied to OKRsÂ
- Decomposes capabilities into manageable features/stories; partners with engineering teams on
- the creation of requirements and user stories; collaborates with Business Partners to gather any
- information required for user story creationÂ
- Effectively balances needs of operations and technical teamsÂ
- Can articulate to partners an understanding of core technology enabling business functionsÂ
- Supports backlog prioritizationÂ
- Builds relationships to be a trusted partnerÂ
- Attends trainings to further advance knowledgeÂ
- Operates in an ambiguous and dynamic environment and adopts a growth mindset
Required Qualifications:
- HS Diploma or GED equivalentÂ
- Experience leveraging AI tools in the product lifecycle in order to improve quality and efficiency.
- 3+ years of experience in product management or technology delivery rolesÂ
- 3+ years of experience working in an agile or scaled agile development environmentÂ
- 3+ years of experience in analyzing customer needs, customer engagement, and product
- performanceÂ
- 1+ years of experience executing work across matrixed product teams
- U.S. Citizen
Preferred Skills/Tools:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experienceÂ
- 4+ years of experience in a product management or technology delivery role working alongside
- engineers
- 4+ years of experience working in an agile or scaled agile development environment
- 4+ years of experience in analyzing customer needs, customer engagement and product
- performance
- Certified Scrum Product Owner Â
- LESS certification Â
- Ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical
- audiences Â
- Ability to represent 'the voice of the customer' in technical discussions with architecture and
- engineeringÂ
- Experience with application development and software integrationsÂ
- Solid research and problem-solving skillsÂ
- Demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a matrix environmentÂ
- Experience in HealthcareÂ
- Experience working with state or federal government clients, including the bidding and
- implementation process
Please note: The right candidate will possess experience leveraging AI tools in the software development (or product) lifecycle in order to improve quality and efficiency.
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