Lead Product Owner

The primary purpose is to implement high quality solutions in support of RxBenefits growing business strategies. This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking professional that can conceptualize, deliver, and support the technology that our employees and partners need to succeed. This is a hands on, team player that demonstrates the ability to comply with our core competencies: Problem Solving & Decision Making, Accountability & Responsibility, Communication, Collaboration & Teamwork, and Customer Focus.

Essential Job Responsibilities Include:

• Manages and mentors a team of Product Owners to achieve product KPIs
• Work with PO leadership and Center of Excellence to establish PO standards and promote a continuous improvement mindset
• Coach other Product Owners on their development and PO deliverables.
• Create and manage product roadmap from start to finish with customer centric alignment.
• Serve as Product Owner in assigned Agile teams using Scrum or similar frameworks.
• Drive business value through a prioritized product backlog based on the product roadmap, ensuring it is value based, transparent and clearly communicated
• Manage and update roadmaps for the given products and align to strategic goals defined by leadership.
• Support product leaders with cross product dependencies and display them on the roadmaps
• Mentor Product Owner(s) and Business Analysts for the products success as necessary
• Owns team backlog and implementation, partners with product manager on vision and program backlog
• Drives iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories
• Establishes story acceptance criteria, accepts stories
• Supports product manager with driving PI objectives and releases content via prioritized features and enablers
• Support product manager in establishing feature acceptance criteria
• Translate customer needs into effective features and functions, while outlining clear acceptance criteria, priority, and value for development teams
• Serve as the voice-of-customer and continuously advocate for the user experience, with a deep understanding of the customer needs, how they think and operate
• Ensures close collaboration with the solution and development and teams
• Contribute to the work of the Product Leader as they define a product differentiation strategyproduct differentiation strategy and roadmap
• Build and manage stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
• Create a deep understanding of the business domain, business processes and constraints in which the product plays
• Track and communicate progress throughout the development lifecycle, while managing dependencies and risks
• Work with a cross-functional team in planning product releases
• Track and coordinate the defined needs for multiple stakeholders across assigned product(s).
• Track and communicate stakeholder and development team expectations of the product(s).
• Closely monitor the execution of product development - planning, execution, release, transition to Delivery/Ops and reporting with senior product owners.
• Follow the expectations around the vision for the development team for highest value delivery, communicate with senior product owners and pivot when things change.
• Decompose documented high level business requirements into features and user stories (detailed level).
• Participate in planning and understand key stakeholders needs across teams to successfully deliver.
• Use effective Agile processes (i.e., Scrum and Agile), understand, coordinate, and track feature backlogs while ensuring successful product releases based on company priorities.
• Collaborate with the stakeholders and development team to support product discovery and drive product execution and releases.
• Provide scope and priority clarification in the backlog refinement and sprint planning meetings.
• Write stories and ultimately accepts or rejects stories as done when complete - complies and follows the definition of done (DoD) standard for the team
• Serve as Product Owner in assigned Agile teams using Scrum or similar frameworks.
• Ability to participate in story mapping and/or product discovery workshops with stakeholders and development teams for backlog generation
• Collaborate with the development team to create and refine user stories.
• Accept or reject work from the development team, ensuring acceptance criteria and definition of done are met before acceptance.
• Support preparation and presentation of demonstrations to stakeholders.
• Ensure the backlog is visible, prioritized, maintained, and reflects reality.
• Support the Scrum Master in their roles and responsibilities.
• Coordinate with the Scrum Master in sprint execution and metrics.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Required Skills / Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Knowledge of the Healthcare industry within the PBM space is required
• Experience with BI or data visualization solutions is strongly preferred
• Experience with the Qlik software is preferred
• 8+ Years of Experience as Product Owner is preferred
• 8+ Years of experience as Business Analyst, Software Development or Product Management
• Experience with Agile Development Methodologies
• Accustomed to working in a collaborative team environment including both technical and non-technical participants.
• Must possess strong analytical problem-solving skills.
• Driven self-starter who is a creative and results oriented; manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret verbal and written requests and directions.
• Must have the ability to produce detailed written documentation.
• Ability to think strategically, as well as thinking from operational, implementation and detail-oriented perspectives.
• Excellent facilitator who is experienced in prioritization and negotiation
• Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.
• Product Owner certification (or higher) with Scrum Alliance, Scaled Agile, Scrum Inc., ICAgile, or any other major Agile training association specific to the Product Owner role.