Agile Product Owner

About the position

The Agile Product Owner will be responsible for acting as a member of the Agile leadership team and is the functional and/or client (or business) representative for a project or set of projects within a market-focus. The position will work in a hybrid model (remote and office) and may require working nights or weekends during releases.

Responsibilities

• Translating features into user stories within a teams backlog and managing ranking and prioritizing this backlog so that it is reflective of stakeholder requirements and priorities.
• Effectively communicate to the team the stakeholder needs so the teams delivery meets both contractual requirements and established acceptance criteria including expected quality and performance.
• Collaborate with team(s) to discover and deliver the best solution to the market problem(s) presented by the Product Manager (business).
• Work with the business to understand, rank and prioritize business needs and plan solutions to ensure that each release provides business value to end users sales and marketing.
• Create and maintain regularly the solution vision roadmap and backlog of work through the project's life cycle.
• Understand how to write user stories and their acceptance criteria.
• Translate the product backlog into user stories.
• Serve as the Product Management (business) proxy and decision point to represent the stakeholders in the project.
• Review and accept/reject results both during a Sprint and in the Sprint review.
• Attend sprint meetings and be available to team during the sprint for clarifications and acceptance of user stories.
• Create and/or input into a projects release plan.
• Present work to team from Team Backlog during Sprint Planning for acceptance by the Team.

Requirements

• Requires a BA/BS and minimum of 3 years experience with writing business/functional requirements and experience implementing Agile methodologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Leading SAFe (SA) certification, CSPO or equivalent (Certified Scrum Product Owner) and/or SPO/PM (SAFE Product Owner/Product Manager) strongly preferred.
• Payment Integrity and Revenue Cycle Management experience strongly preferred.
• Software development life cycle management preferred.
• Product Management process experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution
• Paid holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Medical, dental, vision benefits
• Short and long term disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Wellness programs
• Financial education resources