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American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) is seeking a Product Owner I to join our Product Ownership department.

The primary purpose of this position is to work closely with stakeholders throughout the organization and beyond in order to create, refine, and prioritize a team backlog.

American Specialty Health complies with state and federal wage and hour laws and compensation depends upon candidate’s qualifications, education, skill set, years of experience, and internal equity. $56,700 to $93,000 Full-Time Annual Salary Range.

• Remote Worker Guidelines: This position will be trained remotely and must be able to work from home (WFH) in a designated work area with company-provided technology equipment. This WFH position requires you have a stable connection to your Internet Service Provider with the ability to participate by video in online meetings over a reliable and consistent network. The internet connection must have a consistent 50 down/10 up Mbps minimum internet speed. 100 down/20 up is recommended to support higher quality video meetings.

• The Product Owner I will:
  • Work with other departments and product teams to assess, initiate, refine and drive appropriate functional solutions.
  • Gather requirements from key stakeholders and break those down into user stories for your scrum team to develop.
  • Be present in all scrum ceremonies as well as available to scrum team.
  • Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of refined user stories ready for development.
  • Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
  • Write clear and concise acceptance criteria for each user story.
  • Plan and prioritize product backlog and development of the product.
  • Contribute to final approval and acceptance testing.
  • Effectively communicate the product strategy to key stakeholders and team members.
  • Play an active role in mitigating non-technical impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
  • Partner across different teams and departments as needed to coordinate delivery plans, testing, training, and support.
  • Partner closely with engineering, user experience, customer experience strategy, and design teams to ensure quality and consistency of experience.
  • Coordinate troubleshooting and analysis of issues from internal and external users and solutions all the way through resolution.
  • Define and document business requirements, use cases, data flows, and research/process analysis for cross functional solutions.
  • Familiar with behavioral driven development (BDD) concepts and the Gherkin language format.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, related field, or equivalent experience required. If equivalent experience, high school diploma required.
• 1 year working experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst required.
• Experience with creating, prioritizing, and accepting user stories required.
• Good knowledge of agile process and principles.
• Good communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Good listening and interpersonal communication skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively manage projects, remove barriers, monitor milestones and accomplish deliverables.

• Demonstrated ability to interact in a positive, respectful manner and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
• Ability to display excellent customer service to meet the needs and expectations of both internal and external customers.
• Excellent listening and interpersonal communication skills to identify critical core competencies based on success factors and organizational environment.
• Ability to effectively organize, prioritize, multi-task and manage time.
• Demonstrated accuracy and productivity in a changing environment with constant interruptions.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information, problems, issues, situations, and procedures to develop effective solutions.
• Ability to exercise strict confidentiality in all matters.

• Primarily sedentary, able to sit for long periods of time.

• Ability to see, speak, and hear other personnel and/or objects. Ability to communicate both in verbal and written form. Ability to travel within and around the facility or Work from Home (WFH) environment. Capable of using a telephone, computer keyboard, and mouse. Ability to lift up to 10 lbs.

• Work-from-home (WFH) environment.

American Specialty Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and reproductive health decision-making), gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), creed, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally-protected medical condition, marital status, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, political affiliation, or any other basis protected by applicable local, federal or state law. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact our Human Resources Department at (800) 848-3555 x6702. ASH will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information.