Product Owner II

Job Description

Designs, develops and manages activities for a specific product or group of products from product definition and planning through production, release and end of life. Serves as the central resource with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality and marketing as the product(s) move to production and distribution. Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle including modifications, upgrades and maintenance of the product or product line.

Roles & Responsibilities

We are seeking a Product Owner to function as the bridge between the Product Manager and the delivery team by aligning both parties to the common goals and big picture of the enterprise and business. Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Product, you will be working closely with Product Managers coordinating with them on the scoping and priority issues on a regular basis.

Why Work On This Team

• You will be part of a leading health information network in the United States, processing more than 13 billion transactions annually and connecting more than two million healthcare providers and over two thousand technology partners to health plans nationwide.
• You will work with a team technology and business professionals in Bangalore, who are transforming healthcare delivery through innovation and collaboration.
• You will develop cutting-edge revenue cycle solutions that help hospitals, health systems, and physicians maximize payments and optimize their workflows.

What You Will Be Doing

• Leading storyboarding: developing and prioritizing stories based on the understanding of the overall business benefit and the relative cost of each piece of work while clearly defining the acceptance criteria for each of the stories.
• Acting as the “voice of the customer” while keeping the big picture in mind (preventing customers and users from getting into unnecessary short-term product development trade-offs.
• Managing and grooming the backlog to add, delete or modify user stories on a regular basis ensuring the customer team is properly prepared for kick-off.
• Actively participating in release planning, ensuring that the scope of monthly release demos remains realistic with respect to the capacity of the team.
• Monitoring progress and minimizing scope changes mid-stream.
• Ensuring usability testing is done on a regular basis and feedback incorporated is in alignment with the charter.
• Prioritizing log defects, forming the acceptance criteria and developing test cases.
• Participating in acceptance testing for every release and confirming the developed product is acceptable to the end user.
• Keeping the product charter update, ensuring the “customer team” agrees on priorities and acceptance while communicating the impact of changes, aligning the whole team around it.
• Verifying that the customer deliverables of wireframes, design and acceptance tests are consistent and agreed upon.

Requirements

• 6 to 8 years of progressive work experience in a product role; designing business processes, process mapping, working on process improvement initiatives and business system design.
• A demonstrated mastery of using flowcharting tools.
• Strong analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs to translate them into application and operation requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience building product in an agile environment.