Medicaid Eligibility Product Lead (State & Member Impact)

Top Dog Recruiting; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Top Dog Recruiting is seeking a Medicaid Eligibility Product Owner to lead the state’s eligibility backlog and translate policy into actionable epics and stories. You will partner with policy experts, technology teams, and agency leaders to deliver timely, accurate eligibility decisions and to improve enrollment processes.

You will work with Scrum Masters and developers in an Agile environment, ensuring acceptance criteria are met and supporting user acceptance testing with state staff.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, product manager, or business lead on government or healthcare systems.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Medicaid eligibility, enrollment, or integrated eligibility systems.
• Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria and managing a backlog in Jira, Azure DevOps, or a similar tool.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum teams.
• Clear, plain-spoken communication with technical teams and agency executives alike.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the Medicaid eligibility backlog, balancing federal mandates, state policy, and member impact.
• Translate eligibility policy into clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead impact analysis for new federal and state requirements, including H.R. 1 provisions such as community engagement requirements and more frequent renewals.
• Partner with state policy and program staff to clarify rules, resolve ambiguity, and document decisions.
• Work side by side with Scrum Masters, developers, testers, and business analysts through planning, refinement, reviews, and acceptance.
• Accept completed work against acceptance criteria and support user acceptance testing with state staff.
• Coordinate dependencies with adjacent systems and programs, such as SNAP, MMIS, and managed care organizations.
• Track product outcomes, such as processing timeliness, auto-renewal rates, and error rates, and use them to guide priorities.
• Communicate progress, trade-offs, and risks clearly to agency leadership and project stakeholders.

Skills

Product Owner

Backlog management

Agile / Scrum

Plain-spoken communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Top Dog Recruiting is seeking a Medicaid Eligibility Product Owner to lead the state’s eligibility backlog and translate policy into actionable epics and stories. You will partner with policy experts, technology teams, and agency leaders to deliver timely, accurate eligibility decisions and to improve enrollment processes.

You will work with Scrum Masters and developers in an Agile environment, ensuring acceptance criteria are met and supporting user acceptance testing with state staff.