Job Description: Associate Technical Product Owner
Selected resource will be responsible for defining the product vision and manage the product delivery process, by partnering with product management and stakeholders to translate product strategy into detailed product vision.
As an Assoc Product Owner, you should have the ability to plan and manage the development product from start to finish, and ensure that the product(s) meet the customer's needs. The Assoc. Product Owner partners with an agile delivery team & stakeholders to foster an environment of continuous delivery and improvement. Continuous improvement focusing in on four key areas: Organizational Effectiveness (Engaged Teams), Customer Value (Building the right things), Quality (Working Product) and Team Effectiveness (Deliver Predictably). Seeking resources that are results driven and have excellent organizational, leadership, and communication skills.
A Day in the Life:
-Serves as the "voice of the product" and therefore is the liaison between the stakeholders and the Scrum Teams; 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.
-Final signoff and acceptance responsibility for user stories/features and backlog items.
-Collaborate with team(s) and Stakeholder(s) to Client and deliver the best solution to the market problem(s) presented by the Product Manager (business).
-Works with the business to understand coordinate ranking and prioritize stakeholders needs and plan solutions to ensure that each release provides business value to end users sales and marketing.
-Manage the solution concept development process to ensure the product team understand the direction and vision.
-Create and maintain backlog ownership of work through the product life cycle.
-Utilize best practices to create user stories/backlog items and their acceptance criteria.
-Help provide input into business cases and translate into product backlog stories/items.
-Serve as the Product Management (business) proxy and decision point to represent the stakeholders.
-Reviews and accepts/rejects results both during a Sprint and in the Sprint review.
-Attends sprint ceremonies and is available to team during the sprint for clarifications and acceptance of user stories.
-Capture and prioritize issues or incidents for the team backlog.
-Presents work to team from Team Backlog during Sprint Planning for acceptance by the Team in a Sprint, negotiates Sprint goals with the Team.
-Encourages innovation and experimentation on teams to drive team engagement.
-Generally, Associate Product Owner will have accountability of smaller localized product(s). Number of products, product size, revenue impacts and/or complexity are all considerations in performance.
Required Skills & Experiences:
-2+ years' related experience or Bachelor’s degree. All relevant experience including work, education, transferable skills, and military experience will be considered.
-Strong analytical, organizational, and problem solving skills
-Experience interacting confidently with key stakeholders, as a subject matter expert and comfortable with influencing decision-making
-Strong written, oral, presentation and interpersonal communication skills with the proven ability to negotiate expectations between multiple parties
-Self starter with exceptional critical-thinking skills
-Previous experience with Jira and/or ServiceNow
Nice to Have:
-Previous experience/knowledge in Project Management and/or Product Management
-Experience as an Agile team member
-Experience as an Agile/JIRA product owner
-Experience working in the managed care/healthcare insurance industry
-One of the following certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe PM/PO or LeSS •
Last updated on Nov 13, 2023