Healthcare Product Owner (Hybrid/Remote)

Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut; Union (NJ); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Delta Dental of New Jersey & Connecticut is seeking a Product Owner to join our Transformation Management Team (TMO) in a hybrid role based in Parsippany. You will work with business, technical, and vendor partners to deliver key workstreams and prioritize a backlog for software development and process improvements.

The role requires strategic thinking, strong communication, and the ability to translate customer needs into epics and user stories.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management, business/systems analysis, or project management experience with a proven track record of successful project delivery.
• Strong background in healthcare and insurance, CX experience preferred.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, SAFe) and traditional waterfall methodologies.
• Experience in managing product development life cycles and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Drive value by aligning product goals with overall organizational strategies.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to define product strategy, guide the development process, and drive the product vision.
• Develop well-scoped requirements and prioritize work for engineering teams, dev ops, and data analysts.
• Execute product commitments to consistently deliver meaningful business outcomes.
• Maintain a prioritized product backlog, defining features, value, function, security, and testing needs.
• Champion product goals and support an agile software development lifecycle (SDLC), identifying and documenting Epics, Features, PBIs (Product Backlog Items), and tasks.
• Facilitate communication between business and technical teams to ensure solutions meet both business requirements and technical standards.
• Use agile methodologies (e.g., user stories, acceptance criteria) to drive functional needs.
• Be the voice of the customer, ensuring effective communication between stakeholders and the agile core team.
• Collaborate with sponsors to create a clear product roadmap aligned with both business and technical goals.
• Break down large initiatives into logical Epics, Features, and PBIs for execution based on team capacity.
• Lead the elicitation of business requirements and translate them into user stories and technical requirements.
• Write clear and concise requirements specifications in natural language.
• Regularly review and update the backlog, priorities, and specifications with project stakeholders.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, sprint refinements, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Ensure proper change management practices for maintaining and communicating requirement baselines.

Skills

Product management

Healthcare knowledge

Agile methodologies

Data analytics

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Delta Dental of New Jersey & Connecticut is seeking a Product Owner to join our Transformation Management Team (TMO) in a hybrid role based in Parsippany. You will work with business, technical, and vendor partners to deliver key workstreams and prioritize a backlog for software development and process improvements.

The role requires strategic thinking, strong communication, and the ability to translate customer needs into epics and user stories.