Product Owner

Product Owner

This position is for a Product Owner role to lead the efforts of defining the Product Backlogs by working closely with the team of business analysts, architects, technical SMEs and business owners. This roles accountabilities include, but are not limited to:

Writes Features and works with the team to define User Stories and manages them in the product backlog. Works with business owner to determine priority and assign the priority for the Features and User Stories in the backlogs. Define the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for the product features. Works with the Scrum Masters to schedule the refinement sessions with the teams. Provides guidance and necessary inputs from business perspective to the scrum teams during the refinement sessions. Product Owner assists with communicating the technical challenges/hurdles to business owner and help resolve the issues related to business. Follows the Agile methodology and process to support delivery. Conducts the Release planning sessions with business owners to understand the business priorities for the release/iteration. Plan and conduct the release planning session with the scrums teams to share the business priorities for the upcoming release/iteration and share roadmap. Participates in daily scrum stand-ups, retrospectives, product demonstrations and other scrum ceremonies. Provides inputs to business owner in defining the strategic business roadmap to achieve the program vision. Guides business analysts on how to break down the MVP into the User Stories and has oversight on effective User Stories. Provides inputs to the Scrum Masters on improvement opportunities with refinement sessions. Engages with business stake holders to educate, learn, and provide input to support/improve Agile delivery. Support culture change to improve delivery agility. Provide coaching to team members who are new to Scrum and Agile practices. Supporting Team building and Team development by utilizing the abilities and skills of individuals and fostering a feedback culture. This position requires minimal on call for emergency situations requiring immediate resolutions. This is an onsite position in the DC office and no telework will be allowed. The position will begin as a Work from Home, until further notice.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business, or Engineering or equivalent work experience required.
• Overall 5+ years of IT and business experience in planning, Business Analysis, Business Development, Solutions Development, System Analysis, Technical design/development, implementation, and maintenance of systems, preferably across multiple hardware and software platforms.
• Previous Product Owner experience (2-4 years) in a dynamic high-technology environment.

Required

• Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Product owner
• Excellent communication, interpersonal & leadership skills.
• Hands on experience with Agile practices, Scrum process, Kanban etc.
• Business savvy to understand the product needs of the future and influence all stakeholders to prioritize them.
• Understanding of Web & Mobile technologies, user experience modelling/evolution etc.
• Knowledge of Systems Development Lifecycle and the Project Management Lifecycle.
• Business savvy and ability to discover the potential business and product opportunities
• Experience with product roadmaps development and influencing key stake holders for buy in on business priorities
• Experience with managing the creation and refinement of user stories and defining acceptance criteria in Scrum.
• Experience in Health insurance domain a plus.
• Support product evolution by engaging all stakeholders and sponsors, documentation of future state requirements, development of a Product vision/roadmap for the future and aligning stakeholders on the path ahead.

Preferred

• High focus in technology and innovation
• Prior experience as Sr. Business Analyst with technical background is a big plus. This is a leadership role, and candidate needs the talent and enough years of IT experience.