People Business Partner, Optum Technology - Remote

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner as a senior-level strategic advisor with senior leaders across Optum Technology to translate business priorities into forward-looking workforce and people strategies, holding leaders accountable through transparent, "say = do" partnership.
• Develop forward-looking workforce strategies by assessing the current state of talent, performing skill gap analyses, and evaluating AI automation impacts to blend human capability with digital enablement and AI-driven insights.
• Integrate enterprise-approved AI tools into talent strategies, set AI-focused development goals, and align organizational hiring with AI competencies to actively remove barriers and accelerate technology adoption.
• Champion the ethical use of AI across the workforce lifecycle, embedding transparency, fairness, and accountability throughout the entire AI lifecycle.
• Translate complex data sets, trends, and advanced analytics into clear, actionable talent and business insights to solve complex organizational challenges and drive measurable outcomes.
• Lead complex organization design, operating model decisions, and global workforce planning initiatives to ensure solutions are scalable, inclusive by design, and aligned to enterprise priorities.
• Lead complex transformation and change management initiatives with enterprise impact, driving adoption through clear planning, accountability, and resilience to change while mitigating business disruption.
• Identify and address critical workforce capability gaps to strengthen the leadership bench, build succession pipelines, and ensure equitable, forward-looking talent decisions.
• Provide executive coaching to senior leaders, challenging behaviors and decisions to improve accountability, performance, and leadership impact, enabling leaders to effectively navigate change and team performance.
• Strategically leverage AI, automation, and digital workforce strategies to solve business problems, unlock new growth opportunities, and deliver tangible financial and operational value.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of Human Resources (People Team) or strategic business partnership experience in a complex, global matrixed organization.
• 5+ years of experience developing talent strategies, executing organizational design, and facilitating large-scale workforce transformations.
• 3+ years of experience applying data, advanced analytics, and trends to influence senior leadership decisions and shape business outcomes.
• Demonstrated fluency with emerging technologies, generative AI tools, or analytical platforms applied to workforce planning or talent strategy.
• Experience providing executive coaching and consulting to senior leadership teams.
• Ability to occasionally/periodically travel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering with executive leaders in highly complex, technology-driven environments.
• Experience incorporating AI, automation, or digital workforce strategies into measurable talent and business outcomes.
• Experience supporting global teams, enterprise functions, and large-scale expansion or transformation efforts.
• Experience with M&A Integration, corporate development, or enterprise service environments.
• Demonstrated resourcefulness in setting priorities, working around obstacles, and driving for results.
• Ability to operate at technology speed - thriving in ambiguous, fast-moving environments while driving toward clarity, decisions, and scalable solutions for self and others.
• Proven clear, concise, and compelling written and verbal communication and executive influencing skills.

Pay

The salary for this role will range from $134,600 to $230,800 annually based on full-time employment.