Product Owner

Role Description

Responsible for leading the system development effort by providing vision to the team, outlining work in the product backlog, and coordinating with the business owner to prioritize based on business value. Provides day-to-day direction for and answers the questions of the product team. Has overall responsibility for the product/system's success in meeting the needs of the stakeholders.

• Gathers, validates, translates, and prioritizes business and technical needs into a logically sequenced product and feature roadmap.
• Creates detailed product requirements and associated materials and ensures clear communication of those requirements to the business, design, usability, and development teams.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for the system features and acts as a system advocate across the organization.
• Resolves complex problems or problems where precedent may not exist.
• Builds effective Product teams and inspires a shared vision, demonstrating leadership.
• Acts as liaison to the Project Manager for corporate projects, and to the business for enhancement, or runs the business user stories.
• Coordinates and prioritizes product backlog.
• Manages impacts to multiple publics and business areas, adjusting deliverables as needed.
• Active participant in scrum ceremonies, including retrospective; works with the Scrum Master to develop and implement identified scrum process improvements.
• Accepts or rejects agile product teamwork results, coordinates work with other Product Owners.
• Creates and delivers information at an appropriate level for the audience at all levels of the organization, including presentations and status updates.
• Represents the scrum team and the work of the team to product/system stakeholders.
• Recognizes risk triggers and impediments, clearly communicates the situation and mitigations to agile teams, sponsors, and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in leadership roles on business projects, demonstrating an understanding of project planning techniques and methodologies.
• 4+ years of experience making business process recommendations and preparing business cases, including cost-benefit analysis.
• 4+ years of experience with business process analytics using Excel, flowcharting, activity diagrams, and workflow models.
• Demonstrated ability to document, propose, negotiate, and present approaches and solutions.
• Ability to visualize and create plans for future business outcomes and changes.
• Thorough understanding of business implications, project interdependencies, and system interfaces.
• Strong conflict management skills.
• Proficient at facilitating meetings and negotiating across all levels of the organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and work in a team environment.
• Proven ability to effectively communicate information to a wide variety of technical and non-technical individuals or groups at all levels of the organization.
• Regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of job duties.

Compensation

Salary Ranges: $63,000.00 - $108,675.00

Compensation range for the role is listed below. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions.

Company Description

• VSP Vision is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to age, gender, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
• We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
• Qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, and any other similar laws.
• VSP Vision collects many different types of personal information, including protected health information, about our audiences, including members, doctors, clients, brokers, business partners, and employees.