Jobs in Mannheim, Deutschland

Job Title: Product Owner

Job Location: Remote (EST or CST only)

# Positions: 2

Employment Type: W2

Candidate Constraints:

Duration: 10 months

# of Layers: 0

Work Eligibility: All Work Authorizations are Permitted – No Visa Transfers

Key Technology: product management, Scrum, Agile, software development background

Job Responsibilities:

The Product Owner role is a strategic, foundational role in our Core Technology, Engineering & Solutions Agile Scrum software development framework. Product Owners ensure that the right product features are built at the right time by the Scrum team to support business product development and maximize business value delivered. They define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities to ensure alignment between our products and the needs of its customers.

• Prioritize and manage a product backlog for delivery of value early and often.
• Lead in facilitating using effective product discovery techniques.
• Available to the team in providing timely clarifications and make difficult business trade off decisions on a regular basis.
• Align priorities across customers, business partners, subject matter, and user experience experts.
• Strategic oversight and ownership of the product vision
• Own the product roadmap as well as the release plan, sprint goal and release goal for agile scrum team.
• Conduct on-going analysis of standard operating procedures to assess performance vs. budgeted standards for continuous process improvements, improved efficiency, and improved customer satisfaction. Collaborate with customers, both internal and external, to validate assumptions and respond to feedback.
• Assist team in backlog refinement, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
• Own Sprint Reviews with broader stakeholders and elicit feedback on the product.
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum practices and new trends.
• Responsible for coordinating and working closely with engineers and product management to produce product documentation such as user guides, release notes, internal and external training.
• Actively participate in enterprise scrum of scrums
• Other duties as apparent or assigned.

• 5 years as a product owner in a software development space.
• 3-5 years prior experience in Health Plan Benefits/medical Claims.
• Certification or experiences in areas related to Product Management, Scrum or Agile methodologies-CSPO, A-CSPO or CSP. Preferred Lean/Six Sigma
• Problem solving; identifies effective and efficient solutions for complex problems and looks beyond the obvious and uses critical thinking to drive superior results.
• Ability to Identify problems analytically, develop solutions and implement an effective course of action.
• UX (User Experience) background preferred.