Product Owner

Highmark Health; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 94,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health in Honolulu, Hawaii is seeking a Product Owner to lead development and product management for an analytics product within the organization. You will serve as the primary liaison to agile, cross-functional teams, translating the product manager's vision into actionable requirements and ensuring delivery that yields business value.

The role requires 3 years of experience in product ownership or related fields, a Bachelor's degree in a related discipline, and ability to work with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, Information Management, or closely related field
• 3 years experience in Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting or Design Thinking OR in Product Development & Management, Project/Program Management
• 3 years experience working with external clients/fostering positive relationships and outcomes
• Agile certification from a known vendor (Scrum.org, SAFe, Scrum Alliance, etc.) - preferred

Responsibilities

• Contributes to streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team.
• Manages, understands and supports prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work by collaborating with stakeholders to break down features into user stories; translate vision into requirements for teams.
• Maintain a well groomed and prioritized backlog to support optimal team allocation for multiple Sprints including acceptance of stories and definition of ready/done.
• Responsible for the acceptance of stories as Done, ensuring development and testing meet criteria.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in creating, maintaining, and communicating product vision, strategy, and roadmap; represent the product in governance meetings.
• Collaborate with external vendors to align roadmaps and ensure delivery; drive success with agile metrics.
• Generate a high-level release plan; re-prioritize tasks as needed; develop and maintain product delivery roadmap and communicate release contents.
• Write clearly defined user stories; develop improvement stories to raise program quality.
• Review and sign off on test scripts for in-track and regression testing; ensure full coverage.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Communication skills

Requirements translation

Estimation sizing

Product ownership

Story prioritization

Agile

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in related field

Master's Degree in related field

Job description

Company :

Highmark Health

Job Description :

JOB SUMMARY

This job is accountable for the development and product management of a service and or analytic product within the organization with a unique focus on the applicable business unit. The incumbent is the primary point of contact to agile, large cross-functional teams on behalf of the customer to identify the product requirements for development. The incumbent is accountable for the product's ability to produce business value by focusing on the translation of strategy to agile execution. Oversees priority, scope and the validation of work that is required in order to deliver a quality product. Will need a deep understanding of the product, the market, business strategy and operating model. Accountable for the alignment with product management leadership, direct stakeholder involvement and support of the primary business objectives for the organization.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contributes to streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team.

• Manages, understands and supports prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work by collaborating with stakeholders such as: Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager and others to breakdown features into user stories. Act as a bridge to connect the product and development teams by translating the product manager's vision into business and functional requirements for the teams.This will allow the teams to work with a heavy focus on user outcomes.Key player in solution estimation.

• Maintain a well groomed and prioritized backlog sufficient to support optimal team allocation for multiple (3+) Sprints including acceptance of stories and enforcing definition of ready and definition of done (backlog health).Recommend resolution paths to domain leadership when/if backlog health becomes insufficient.

• Responsible for the acceptance of stories as “Done” from the team, ensuring that the stories have been developed, tested, and meet the defined acceptance criteria

• Collaborate as needed with stakeholders (e.g. Product Management, business leads, etc.) in the creation, maintenance, and communication of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Represent the product in team or minor level governance meetings.Track and provide status to leadership. Perform work necessary with product managers to learn about what problems they are aiming to solve with the product.

• Collaborate with external vendors to align roadmaps, ensuring delivery execution and scope alignment. Work on cross-functional teams, leveraging agile program and team metrics to drive success.

• Contributes to the generation of a high-level release plan with the team.Continually re-prioritizes team's tasks based upon new information, discussions with stakeholders, and probability to drive business outcomes.Develop and maintain product delivery roadmap. Effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/behavior to stakeholders.

• Write clearly defined user stories for new product features, issues and future enhancements. Work with the team to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the quality of the program.

• Review, update and sign off on test scripts for both in-track and regression testing, ensuring full coverage of the user stories.

• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, Information Management, or closely related field

Substitutions

• None

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, or Information Management

EXPERIENCE

Required

• 3 years experience in Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting or Design Thinking OR in Product Development & Management, Project/Program Management
• 3 years experience working with external clients/fostering positive relationships and outcomes

Preferred

• None

LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS

Required

• None

Preferred

• Agile certification from a known vendor (Scrum.org, SAFe, Scrum Alliance, etc.)

SKILLS

• Communication skills, ability to work in matrixed organization
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Ability to "size" work for estimation / planning
• Ability to serve as product owner for multiple teams / products
• Ability to prioritze across stories / resources / teams / products
• Agile methodology
• Able to problem solve in conjunction with distilling research and applying to reach a relevant and beneficial solution

Languages (Other than English)

None

Travel Required

None

PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND WORKING CONDITIONS

Position Type

Office Based

Teaches / trains others regularly

Occasionally

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site

Rarely

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)

Never

Physical work site required

No

Lifting: up to 10 pounds

Constantly

Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds

Occasionally

Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds

Never

Disclaimer:

The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.

Compliance Requirement:

This position adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies.

As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy.

Furthermore, it is every employee’s responsibility to comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements.

Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate’s qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations. The displayed salary range does not reflect any geographic differential Highmark may apply for certain locations based upon comparative markets.

Pay Range Minimum:

$94,200.00

Pay Range Maximum:

$151,000.00

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