Job description :
Product owner with health care experience and a passion for educating and engaging consumers. As a Product Owner on our team, you will partner closely with Product Managers to help implement and launch key features and tools on our digital Medicare Shop Buy Enroll platform. You will lead a web development team, working closely with a Scrum Master in an Agile SAFe process. Grow your skill set and knowledge base by working alongside talented and passionate teammates from diverse backgrounds.
Fundamental Components
- User Story Development
- Works with product management and stakeholders to align on business value, problem
- Provides subject matter expertise – explaining product vision and user stories to the team to ensure requirements are understood and customer value is delivered
- Collaborates with development team to elaborate and define technical learnings into refined and prioritized backlog items that align to Iteration Objectives.
- Responsible for defining and prioritizing stories that will increase velocity and quality of the program
- Responsible for assuring a level of quality has been achieved by validating that the Story meets acceptance criteria and has met acceptance tests. Approves stories as complete.
- Responsible to update product management on Story status to align on delivery expectations
- Team Backlog Ownership/Prioritization
- Responsible for building, prioritizing, monitoring/editing, and maintaining the flow of Team Backlog to ensure the delivery of the customer satisfaction and business value
- Sets the runway for early business value and customer impact by determining sequencing of sprint planning
- Leads the team in identifying dependencies and tradeoffs as well as problem solving risks that may appear in the Team Backlog
- Program Increment Planning
- Partner with Product Management, who is responsible for the Program Backlog, to assist in preparing for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting.
- Identify the potential enablers and spikes for discussion in the Program Increment
- Drafts the team’s objectives and defines features for the Program Increment session
- Collaborates with the team to produce the PI system demo and the Product Owner presents it to program stakeholders.
- Maintain Conceptual and Technical Integrity of Features/Components
- Partner with design function to consider usability testing and end-user feedback to ensure product will address and resolve user pain points
Provide architecture and development teams sufficiently detailed feedback on user stories and product vision to ensure the team maintains the technical integrity of features / functionality
Background Experience
- 3- 5 years of Product Owner experience
- 3+ year of experience with technical & communication skills and ability to execute on product vision and direction.
- Experience working with engineering and UX teams to build Customer Facing Applications , Ecommerce
- Experience with Salesforce is a plus
- Experience with Agile/Scrum required. SAFe a plus
- Experience in healthcare / Medicare insurance
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Experienced in collaboration tools (e.g. Airtable, Rally, Microsoft Teams, Confluence, Miro, etc.).