Director, Product & Innovation (Optum Local Care Delivery) - Minneapolis, MN

Making the healthcare system work better for everyone is our passion and purpose.   Optum Care designs and manages patient and provider centered delivery systems.  Our enterprise clinical team works to improve the overall health and well-being of the patients and consumers we serve by empowering providers and care teams with the tools to provide consumers/patients with quality and affordable care at the right place, by the right person at the right time and engaging consumers/patients with the information, guidance and tools they need to make personal health choices and decisions.   

Do you have a passion for innovation, engaging patients and providers and making a difference?   Join our clinical innovation team.  Our work atmosphere is stimulating, innovative and action oriented. We provide employees a collaborative and passionate work environment, the opportunity to work at the forefront of national and global healthcare, and an unparalleled career in making a difference in the world of healthcare. 

Working with local and national clinical, operational, technology and thought leaders and their teams the product director helps drive clinical innovation across Optum Care employed medical groups and high performing delivery systems.  

Assess innovation opportunities working with internal and external partners

Generate new innovation ideas through collaboration, formal and informal events, and engage with partners to define problems space and generate potential solutions 

Develop and maintain business partner relationships   

Innovation Ideation and product development   

Manage solutions development through ideation, the product development and release process, and growth and enhancements    

Develop and ensure successful realization of comprehensive product innovation plans including timelines, milestones, and deliverables   

Primary and secondary research to understand market and the competitive landscape and to drive sound design and decision-making   

Design pilots; initial focus on digital health, deploy, and evaluate pilot results   

Collaborate to deploy proven scalable solutions   

Support product delivery through collaboration with cross-functional partners, e.g. local clinical teams, national clinical program team, operations, technology solutions, marketing, consumer solutions   

Execute against strategic, tactical, and operational goals in partnership with team leadership and cross-functional partners   

Required Qualifications:     

 
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system 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)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: 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.