Senior Director, Data Solutions - Product

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute a comprehensive data product strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Champion a 'data as a product' mindset across the organization.
• Establish and scale enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, and standards.
• Lead data stewardship programs to ensure data quality, lineage, and compliance.
• Champion the strategic vision for AI adoption by aligning initiatives with organizational goals to unlock value, drive competitive advantage, and ensure responsible, transparent, and impactful outcomes.
• Identify and remove organizational and operational barriers to accelerate AI implementation.
• Effectively allocate and manage resources including funding, talent, and technology to support scalable and sustainable AI innovation.
• Build and manage a portfolio of internal and external data products and platforms.
• Drive the full product lifecycle from ideation to delivery, ensuring measurable business impact.
• Oversee the development of advanced analytics and AI/ML capabilities.
• Partner with data science and engineering teams to deliver scalable, ethical AI solutions.
• Collaborate with the CTO and Engineering to define the data architecture and infrastructure roadmap.
• Ensure robust, secure, and scalable data platforms and pipelines.
• Build and lead a high-performance team of data product managers, analysts, and stewards.
• Foster a data-driven culture across the organization.

Requirements

• 12+ years of combined experience and a proven record of driving major transformational change and delivering measurable results.
• 5+ years in a senior leadership role managing cross-functional data teams across multiple geographies.
• Experience with modern data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, Kafka).
• Experience managing budgets that include sales/bookings targets, revenue targets, client satisfaction targets, and expense targets.
• Experience in forecasting and financial planning and analysis, partnering with HR, IT, and legal.
• Deep understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata management, and regulatory compliance.
• Solid familiarity with AI/ML platforms and analytics tools.
• Proven success in building and scaling data platforms and products in complex enterprise environments.
• Willing to travel 10-15%.

Nice to Have

• 10+ years of combined experience in product management, delivering new product delivery and leading strategic go-to-market initiatives of diverse scope in a large matrixed software company.
• Background in computer science, data science, or engineering.
• Experience supporting Optum Markets (Payers, Employers, Providers, Federal/State government, Emerging Markets).
• Experience working across UHG, Optum, and UHC lines of business.
• Proficient skills and knowledge of servant leadership, resilience, resourcefulness, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Located in/near Minneapolis or Washington DC.

Qualifications

• Formal educational background is not explicitly specified, but extensive experience in data leadership and product management is required.

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution
• Salary range from $156,400 to $268,000 annually
• Remote work flexibility within the U.S.