Product Owner

As the Product Owner, you are responsible for maximizing the Federal Employee Program’s (Product) value and the agile team's work by ensuring the team’s backlog is prioritized and aligned with customer needs and approved business cases. You will build strong partnerships with stakeholders through continuous communication and feedback to ensure their needs are represented and the product outcomes are achieved. In addition, you will develop and convey the product’s vision to the agile team, outlining and prioritizing work based on business value realization metrics. This is an incredible opportunity to use your FEP business knowledge to be a key member of this established product team.

Requirements

Preferred:

• Working knowledge of the Federal Employee Program and the health care domain is strongly preferred.
• Master of Business Administration (MBA).
• Prior experience in a Product Owner role operating within a SAFe organization.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience working with or leading agile teams through the delivery of value to the product’s customer, including experience using agile requirements management tools (e.g., Jira or Azure DevOps).
• Minimum of 1 year demonstrated experience in Product Owner-type role, typically gained through membership on defined product team within Wellmark.
• SAFe agile certification (e.g., Product Owner)
• Demonstrated ability to be a highly functioning and influential leader on high-performing cross-functional teams; including experience successfully leading others through change.
• Demonstrated experience with agile and/or lean product management competencies of value measurement, optimization, and eliminating waste.
• Demonstrated ability to manage work processes by measuring, evaluating, and improving processes to achieve organizational goals.
• Demonstrated experience effectively prioritizing and organizing to maximize personal and business efficiency.
• Demonstrated negotiation, facilitation and influencing skills to drive decision making among stakeholders with diverse perspectives and priorities.
• Experience with agile business analysis, including documentation of features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Proven skills in building relationships and influencing people across the organization to break down barriers and foster collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing to achieve shared vision and goals.
• Comfort with ambiguity; strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to identify risks and deploy appropriate mitigation strategies to meet stakeholder/functional requirements.
• Consulting skills required with, excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
• Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle; Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) knowledge.