Product Owner
M-F 9-5
100% RemoteMust take Glider : "Product Owner" assessmenthttps://hire.glider.ai/assess/ruid/znEK8izA6LF97PLwj/153272590727
Responsibilities
-Contributes to streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team.
- Manages, understands and supports prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work by collaborating with stakeholders such as: Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager and others to breakdown features into user stories.
- Act as a bridge to connect the product and development teams by translating the product manager's vision into business and functional requirements for the teams. This will allow the teams to work with a heavy focus on user outcomes.
Key player in solution estimation.
- Maintain a well groomed and prioritized backlog sufficient to support optimal team allocation for multiple (3+) Sprints including acceptance of stories and enforcing definition of ready and definition of done (backlog health).
- Recommend resolution paths to domain leadership when/if backlog health becomes insufficient.
- Responsible for the acceptance of stories as "Done” from the team, ensuring that the stories have been developed, tested, and meet the defined acceptance criteria
- Collaborate as needed with stakeholders (e.g. Product Management, business leads, etc.) in the creation, maintenance, and communication of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Represent the product in team or minor level governance meetings. Track and provide status to leadership.
- Perform work necessary with product managers to learn about what problems they are aiming to solve with the product.
- Ability to work with external vendors and align the roadmaps - from delivery execution and scope standpoint
- Servant-Leader as part of a cross functional team or teams. Ability to work with agile program and team metrics.
- Effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/behavior to stakeholders.
- Contributes to the generation of a high-level release plan with the team. Continually re-prioritizes team's tasks based upon new information, discussions with stakeholders, and probability to drive business outcomes. Develop and maintain product delivery roadmap.
- Writing clearly defined user stories for new product features, issues and future enhancements. Working with the team to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the quality of the program.
- Review, update and sign off test scripts for both in-track and regression testing, ensuring full coverage of the user stories
Required Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, Information Management OR closely related field
3+ years of Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting or Design Thinking OR in Product Development & Management, Project/Program Management
3+ years working with external clients/ foster positive relationships and outcomes
Preferred Experience
Agile certification from a known vendor (Scrum.org, SAFe, Scrum Alliance, etc.)
Able to problem solve in conjunction with distilling research and applying to reach a relevant and beneficial solution
Soft/Technical Skills
Communication Skills, Ability to work in matrixed organization
Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
Ability to "size" work for estimation / planning
Ability to serve as product owner for multiple teams / products
Ability to prioritize across stories / resources / teams / products
Agile methodology