Product Owner, Data Mining & AI for Healthcare Payments

Zelis

Morristown (NJ)

Hybrid

USD 105,000 - 133,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Zelis is seeking a Product Owner for Data Mining Solutions to own, translate, and prioritize the data mining roadmap into clearly defined work for Agile and Kanban delivery teams. You will collaborate with stakeholders, write user stories and acceptance criteria, manage the backlog, and ensure delivery aligns with the product roadmap while enabling AI-enabled features for clients and internal teams.

You will partner with cross-functional groups to define requirements, support planning and

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
4+ years in product management, business analysis, or related role.
Experience developing user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, functional specs, or test scenarios.
Experience managing or contributing to an Agile team backlog.
Knowledge of Agile SDLC practices.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, process-mapping, and communication skills.
Ability to organize complex information and translate it into clear delivery requirements.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
Experience supporting AI, analytics, ML, automation, or data-intensive product delivery.
Familiarity with model outputs, confidence scoring, decision-support workflows, and responsible AI controls.
Healthcare or Payment Integrity experience (preferred).
Experience with healthcare claims data, reimbursement, clinical review, or claims auditing (preferred).
Experience supporting analytics, data science, or data platform products (preferred).
Working knowledge of SQL; coding not required (preferred).
SAFe PO/PM or similar certification (preferred).

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, refine, and prioritize the Data Mining team backlog.
Translate roadmap initiatives, requirements, and analytical concepts into features and stories.
Ensure backlog items are clearly defined, sequenced, and ready for delivery.
Balance functional requirements, technical enablement, defects, and nonfunctional needs.
Collaborate with product leaders to align priorities with the roadmap.
Communicate changes in scope, priority, dependencies, and risk.
Participate in PI planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, reviews, and demos.
Present story details and priorities to Agile teams.
Support estimation and capacity discussions with Engineering/DS teams.
Coordinate dependencies with other product/delivery teams.
Accept completed stories after confirming acceptance criteria and DoD.
Assist system demonstrations and stakeholder reviews.
Document detailed requirements with stakeholders and translate AI-related needs into user stories and acceptance criteria.
Validate AI-enabled functionality for outputs, exceptions, and human-in-the-loop controls.