Product Owner - Health Care (Hybrid/Remote)

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Durham (CA); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Tuition reimbursement

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Blue Cross North Carolina is seeking a Product Owner to own and manage the team sprint backlog, aligning priorities with business objectives, customer needs, and the product roadmap. You will collaborate with product managers to translate vision into actionable user stories and maintain alignment across stakeholders.

The role emphasizes strong collaboration, backlog ownership, and the ability to decompose features into actionable work items for delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)
• 3+ years of experience in related field
• In lieu of degree, 5+ years of experience in related field
• Product Owner certification preferred (Scrum Alliance or SAFe)

Responsibilities

• Work with product manager to ensure customer desires and business priorities are reflected in the product backlog
• Enable streamlined execution of product priorities by collaborating with stakeholders to define user stories and owning team backlog
• Decomposes features into stories to enable team delivery
• Map product vision to user stories using stakeholder input
• Act as liaison between business/customer and delivery team to align expectations
• Develop and maintain business knowledge for assigned spoke or business area
• Define user stories and support team members as they write user stories

Skills

Backlog management

User story writing

Stakeholder liaison

Product vision mapping

Sprint backlog ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree

5+ years experience in related field

Job description

Blue Cross North Carolina is seeking a Product Owner to own and manage the team sprint backlog, aligning priorities with business objectives, customer needs, and the product roadmap. You will collaborate with product managers to translate vision into actionable user stories and maintain alignment across stakeholders.

The role emphasizes strong collaboration, backlog ownership, and the ability to decompose features into actionable work items for delivery teams.