Strategic Product Owner for Agile Delivery

Highmark Health; Washington; On-site; USD 94,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

enGen is seeking a Product Owner to lead the development and management of a service and/or analytic product. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate strategy into agile execution, prioritize the backlog, and ensure the product delivers business value.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to refine the product vision, and you may work with external vendors. A Bachelor’s degree is required, with 3 years of relevant experience and Agile certification preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, Information Management, or a closely related field.
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare Discipline, or Information Management (preferred)
• 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 breakdown features into user stories.
• Maintain a well groomed and prioritized backlog for multiple Sprints including acceptance of stories and enforcing definitions of ready/done.
• Responsible for acceptance of stories as “Done” from the team, ensuring development and testing meet criteria.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create, maintain, and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Collaborate with external vendors to align roadmaps, ensuring delivery execution and scope alignment.
• Contribute to release planning and maintain the product delivery roadmap.
• Write clearly defined user stories and implement improvement stories to increase quality.
• Review/update test scripts for in-track and regression testing.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Communication skills

Matrix organization

Translate requirements into specs

Story sizing & estimation

Product owner for multiple teams

Agile methodology

Problem solving with research

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree (preferred)

Tools

None

Job description

enGen is seeking a Product Owner to lead the development and management of a service and/or analytic product. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate strategy into agile execution, prioritize the backlog, and ensure the product delivers business value.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to refine the product vision, and you may work with external vendors. A Bachelor’s degree is required, with 3 years of relevant experience and Agile certification preferred.