Product Owner

As a Product Owner, your responsibilities will include:

• Acts as the Product Owner and leader of remote cross-functional Agile Scrum team
• Collaborates with customers and business stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs and translates them into business requirements
• Transforms business requirements into detailed user stories, mockups with user actions, and clear acceptance criteria that developers, quality assurance analysts, and UX designers can consume
• Works closely with Product Management to create and maintain a prioritized backlog based on alignment with the strategic product roadmap, business value and return on investment
• Optimizes productivity of the Development team through management of the product backlog by ensuring stories are properly defined, ready for development to start work on, and prioritized in advance of a Sprint
• Defines Sprint goals and leads Sprint planning sessions
• Attends daily stand-up meetings with Agile Scrum team
• Available to the Development team on a daily basis to answer any questions team members have regarding the customer’s needs and the customer’s views of how the team is implementing a product feature
• Manages and resolves customer & internally reported product escalations by balancing resolution priority against roadmap commitments

The Product Owner position is well-suited for you if you have:

• Experience designing employee benefits administration solutions including a configurable platform that supports medical and voluntary benefits plans, a self-service enrollment user experience, analytical reporting, and integration with payroll and carrier systems.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and manage technical and data complexity
• A team player mindset and are adept at managing relationships, collaborating, and influencing across a variety of organizational functions
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Qualified candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Computer Science, or a related discipline or 8 years of relevant work experience
• 5 years of experience in an Agile Product Owner role, including experience with Scrum methodologies
• Experience with Jira Software’s Agile project management tool is a plus
• Knowledge of the employee benefits and the healthcare ecosystem
• Technically savvy with the ability to influence and work collaboratively with development teams
• Ability & willingness to travel up to 15% within US and Canada is expected

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Healthcare: 5 years (Required)
• designing employee benefits administration: 5 years (Required)
• scrum/agile: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: One location