Product Owner

Position Summary:

Responsible for maximizing the value of the products. Engaged on multiple levels as a business strategist, product designer, market analyst, customer liaison, as well as a project manager. Define goals and create a vision for development projects. Your work will also involve combining best-in-class operational and analytic skills with strong problem-solving and communication abilities to products/projects to solve operational, analytical and strategic business problems.

Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
• Define the vision for the team's product
• Create a product road map based on this vision
• Manage the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements
• Oversee all stages of product creation including design and development
• Develop user stories
• Monitor and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process
• Liaise with the product team and end-users to deliver updates
• Participate in Scrum meetings and product sprints
• Manage the scope, budget, and time and evaluate and balance the priorities
• Inspect and evaluate product through each iteration
• Understand client business issues, operating business rules, data, and standard operating procedures
• Implement process improvements in processes and strive to identify such opportunities working with delivery team. Quickly adapt to learning new tools, techniques, working models to improve design and improve products/processes and help explore newer tools/techniques
• Coordinate multiple tasks to produce high-quality results
• Develop deep domain expertise in the practice area and help the leadership to carry out knowledge sharing sessions to build collective expertise

Qualifications:

BA degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other related fields.

Minimum Required:

Bachelor degree

Other Required:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a Scrum agile organization, and in the role of Product Owner or in a similar role, such as Product Management
• Certified Product Owner
• Direct experience working at an organization that has fully adopted SCRUM agile
• Knowledgeable in software development and other relevant web technologies
• In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology
• Experience as a Project Manager (or similar role) with proven hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle
• Working knowledge of product development architecture
• Proficiency in the use of analytic tools
• Ability to prioritize effectively
• Excellent knowledge of user-centered design principles
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Ability to work with large teams
• Understanding of design quality standards
• High proficiency with Azure DevOps

Preferred:

Product Owner Certifications, such as:

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or willingness to certify
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
• SAFe Product Owner
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• Your Scrum Product Owner (Accredited Certification)
• EXIN Agile Scrum Product Owner

Skills:

• Communication Skills - Written, Verbal, and Presentation: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret production data, financial reports, and legal documents. Excellent verbal, written, presentation, interpersonal skills including ability to clearly respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, employees, and members of the business community. Rapid agility to reply to emails, provide instructions of work stream necessities or issues encountered, business and report writings in a succinct and informative manner
• Business Judgment and Strategic Thinking: Ability to think, act, and deliver value in the best interest of our clients with respect to common practices of the healthcare consulting field. Ability to extrapolate from the specific to the general and interpret from the general to the specific
• Analytic Skills: Framing macro problems into action steps or work plans for resolutions. Structuring a persuasive client presentation based on in-depth or expansive excel spreadsheets. Demonstrable interpretive and solution identification skills with the ability to understand multiple types of quantitative and qualitative data heightened with strong resolution skills
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Ability to give and receive constructive feedback and work effectively across the organization to accomplish team goals is critical. Excellent judgment, management, and conflict resolution skills. Ability to work with team members to convey results, incorporate enhancements and productionize processes across projects. Must be able to understand the dynamics of how a team interconnects and relies upon every member
• Strategic Thinking: Conceptualize outside of the aspects of a project at hand, with an ability to visualize how the work contributes to and drives forward the overall project
• Solutions oriented: Must be able to display resourcefulness and confidence under pressure
• Resilience: Must be able to look past obstacles and roadblocks, ask questions and for support, and find their way around any obstacle