Product Owner - Contingent

Index Analytics, LLC, is a rapidly growing Baltimore-based small business providing health related consulting services to the federal government. At the center of our company culture is a commitment to instilling a dynamic and employee-friendly place to work. We place a priority on promoting a supportive and collegial team environment and enhancing staff’s experience through career development and educational opportunities.

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Product Owner to join our team. In this role, you will play a key part in collaborating with our customers to define product requirements, develop a product understanding, and communicate effectively to both business and technical audiences to deliver solutions. Using Lean-Agile principles, the Product Owner will manage product development and focus on delivering value through minimal viable products.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with stakeholders and the Product Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and maintain a well-defined product roadmap that aligns with the product vision.
• Defining and prioritizing product features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and defects ensuring alignment with business goals and customer expectations.
• Translate business needs and strategic goals into clear requirements and user stories.
• Develop the team roadmap and support the team as needed to deliver on commitments.
• Sponsor of a customer-focused mindset with a deep understanding of user needs.
• Work with development team to implement, accept, and accept user stories as defined.
• Liaison working with other product owners and scrum masters, program leadership, customers, and development teams.
• Demonstrate product functionality to stakeholders.
• Participate in SAFe scrum ceremonies such as Planning Intervals, Iteration Planning & Review, Product Refinement Sessions, Team Sync and Innovation & Planning events.

Qualifications

• US citizen or Authorized to Work and lived in the US for 3 of the last 5 years. Must be able to obtain a U.S. Federal government client badge and pass a government Public Trust.
• 8 years of experience, at least 5 years professional experience managing requirements and backlog with agile development teams.
• Knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodology.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose business problems and come up with product roadmaps and timelines for convincing parties for recommended product implementation.
• Must be able to communicate to management, peers and customers effectively and professionally as well as demonstrate sound judgment/reasoning skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with engineering and analytics teams to discuss technical concepts, make tradeoffs to remove roadblocks, and evaluate new ideas.
• Be detail oriented, flexible, proactive, and multi-task to quickly adapt to changing client priorities and respond to ad hoc requests.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication required.
• Expertise with Agile tools like JIRA, Confluence, Slack etc.
• Prior experience with Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services or other Govt agencies is a plus.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Certified SAFe POPM) is a plus.
• Remote position, Occasional Travel up to 5% to 10%

Index Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.