Remote Product Owner: Agile Backlog Leader

CAI; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 90,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401k retirement plan

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Product Owner to drive alignment between product vision and development execution, ensuring delivery of user-focused outcomes and business value. This is a Full-Time, 3-month contract, and Remote.

You will collaborate with Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager and cross-functional teams to break down features into user stories, maintain a groomed backlog, and act as a Servant-Leader for agile delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a closely related field is required.
• 3+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting, Design Thinking, Product Development & Management, or Project/Program Management.
• 3+ years of experience working with external clients and fostering positive relationships and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity for features or components.
• Collaborate with Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager, and others to break down features into user stories.
• Act as a bridge between product and development teams by translating the product manager's vision into business and functional requirements, focusing on user outcomes.
• Maintain a well-groomed and prioritized backlog to support optimal team allocation for multiple (3+) sprints, ensuring backlog health and enforcing definition of ready and done.
• Recommend resolution paths to domain leadership if backlog health becomes insufficient.
• Accept stories as “Done” from the team, ensuring they meet defined acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create, maintain, and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Represent the product in team or minor governance meetings and track status for leadership.
• Work with product managers to understand problems they aim to solve with the product.
• Manage relationships with external vendors and align roadmaps for delivery execution and scope.
• Serve as a Servant-Leader for cross-functional teams, leveraging agile program and team metrics.
• Communicate product release contents and expected capabilities/behavior to stakeholders.
• Contribute to high-level release plans and continually reprioritize team tasks based on new information and discussions with stakeholders.
• Write clearly defined user stories for new product features, issues, and enhancements. Work with the team to implement improvement stories that enhance program quality.
• Review, update, and sign off test scripts for both in-track and regression testing to ensure full coverage of user stories.

Education

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

Job description

CAI is seeking a Product Owner to drive alignment between product vision and development execution, ensuring delivery of user-focused outcomes and business value. This is a Full-Time, 3-month contract, and Remote.

You will collaborate with Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager and cross-functional teams to break down features into user stories, maintain a groomed backlog, and act as a Servant-Leader for agile delivery.