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Optum; Illinois; On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare technology company located in Illinois seeks an experienced Agile Product Owner. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Product Manager to oversee product features and manage the product backlog. Required qualifications include an undergraduate degree, over 5 years of experience in agile environments, and proficiency with tools like Jira and Confluence. Join a team dedicated to transforming healthcare and improving lives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an agile technical product owner/manager on Scrum or Kanban.
• 5 years writing acceptance-criteria-based user stories.
• 4 years experience with project management tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and monitor product features with the Product Manager.
• Plan and prioritize the product feature backlog.
• Work with the delivery team to prepare stories for sprints.
• Lead planning of product releases.

Skills

Agile product ownership

User story writing

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Rally

Atlassian Jira

Atlassian Confluence

Job description

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Product Manager to define and monitor product features according to product roadmap, strategy and vision.
• Actively plan and prioritize the product feature backlog according to business value and clearly define priorities for the product team.
• Work closely with the delivery team to ensure stories in the upcoming sprint are fully understood and stories in future sprints are well groomed & estimated.
• Lead the planning of product releases and set expectations for delivery of new features with stakeholders.
• Write detailed user stories and define acceptance criteria at a pace to ensure the product team always has an adequate number of prepared stories to work on.
• Define the sprint goals in coordination with the product team and drive the team to deliver promised value.
• Actively participate during Agile ceremonies to provide immediate answers and direction to the product team based on domain expertise.
• Facilitate sprint planning and backlog refinement by collaborating with the Scrum Master.
• Create a sense of common goal for the team based on the product vision. Regularly engage with the product team to guide priorities, refine features, define functional requirements, and help address blockers impacting successful team completion of sprint goals.
• Work in collaboration with stakeholders to understand their expectations and help the team understand how to set up for successful user acceptance testing with stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years – Experience with application development as an agile technical product owner/manager on Scrum or Kanban.
• 5 years – Experience with writing acceptance‑criteria‑based user stories and organizing user acceptance testing.
• 5 years – Experience with an analytical thought process to aid prioritization and negotiation.
• 4 years – Experience with Rally, Atlassian Jira, or Atlassian Confluence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain knowledge around the product that will be owned.
• Experience discussing issues and questions related to claims‑data analysis with business stakeholders to review and resolve these issues.
• Experience performing analysis of pharmacy/healthcare data.
• Demonstrated ability to break business needs into requirements and define those in a written format that allows delivery teams to align behind the product vision.
• Outstanding communication, organizational, collaboration and relationship‑building skills.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Agile experience and Certified Scrum Product Owner certification.
• Travel up to 0‑5% of the work time (if living outside Illinois).

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We’re freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it’s needed. We’re creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.SM

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