Agile Product Manager

Elevance Health - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Mid Level

Atlanta, GA

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About the position

The Agile Product Manager will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between technical solutions and business needs, ensuring that product strategies align with organizational goals. This position involves defining system requirements, collaborating with stakeholders, and managing the product backlog to deliver value through Agile methodologies. The role requires a strong focus on performance metrics, competitive analysis, and effective communication with scrum teams to drive product development and enhancements.

Responsibilities

• Define functional, usability, reliability, performance, and support requirements of a system.
• Provide the link between the technical and business views of the system by ensuring that the technical solutions being developed will satisfy the needs of the business.
• Partner with business, architecture, and infrastructure and oversee all service levels to ensure business area satisfaction.
• Work with the IT learning organization to mentor and assist in training initiatives and perform estimates for application functionality enhancements.
• Proactively work with stakeholders to identify future system opportunities and enhancements and develop use cases.
• Focus on the business case product strategy/definition/positioning, road map development, portfolio management, full competitive analysis, win/loss analysis, forecasting, and value delivery through the ecosystem.
• Utilize the right key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product performance and support portfolio work including budget parameters and strategic themes.
• Responsible for the Program Epic/Initiative backlog at the Agile Lean Program Level, partnering with stakeholders to develop business cases for Epics/features affecting the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Collaborate with Product Owners to continuously develop and communicate the vision for the scrum teams.
• Build an effective product manager/product owner team for multiple trains in support of their value stream and mentor Product Managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Natural Sciences, or related field.
• Eight (8) years of experience in information technology.
• Four (4) years of experience with Agile Methodologies: SCRUM, KANBAN, and SAFe.
• Three (3) years of experience with DB analysis tools: Toad, DBeaver, SQL Developer, and SQL Assistant.
• Three (3) years of experience in Sprint planning, Backlog refinement, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Program Increment Cadence.
• Three (3) years of experience with Pharmacy Auth, Enrollment, Eligibility in Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid.
• Three (3) years of experience in creating Sprint health Dashboards, Scrum project boards, Sprint metrics/reports, backlog, and content management using JIRA and Confluence tools.
• Three (3) years of experience in creating and maintaining product backlog.
• Three (3) years of experience in writing Features and stories and working with scrum teams in sprint planning calls to prioritize features based on value delivered.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner, or SAFe Product Manager certification.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Natural Sciences, or a related field plus six (6) years of experience in information technology.