Agile Product Owner Advisor - Hybrid

As an Agile Product Owner, Advisor you will be responsible for directing and managing a technical team to fulfill the needs of the business.

This is a great opportunity for someone with strong business acumen, technical skills, and a thorough understanding of Enrollment Operations to help set the direction and ensure the success of the product line they own.

Primary Functions:


* Working with multiple Kanban teams and/or Scrum Teams in an Agile Team Structure environment.


* Understanding and managing team capacity & optimizing performance, building trusted relationshipswith engineering


* Understanding dependencies & broad knowledge of product/service offerings


* Identifying and engaging necessary stakeholders, technology, and expertise to drive alignment within projects or programs


* Being a passionate advocate, with the ability to identify, champion customer needs, and improve with agile principles in mind


* Team leader of indirect reports and initiatives


* Own the product development lifecycle of assigned product or capability areas, including status reports


* Understand technology systems and customer journeys impacted by product/capability area


* Understand trends and metrics associated with product/capability area


* Translate complex business objectives into effective requirements and agile implementations


* Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners to deliver the business case via intake(s), prioritization, estimate exercises, journey mapping, capability build, adoption, production roll-out, and metric tracking / feeding of the backlog


* Resolve issues and determine contingency plans and triggers for risks.

As needed, escalate issues to appropriate audiences including key business leaders and team members


* Communicate effectively with individuals in various functional areas and at all levels of management

Specific areas of responsibility:


* Manages capacity and work for multiple Kanban and/or Scrum teams in the Medicare Advantage Domain.

Responsible for communicating vision, goals and business value.

Prepares, executes and incorporates feedback from customers.

Change Agent - ability to analyze processes and determine improvements by suggesting optimization of workflows


* Backlog Grooming - In charge of backlog management, looking for value - adding additional user stories based on project/sponsor need and assessing the prioritization of existing work to ensure there is proper sequencing,


* Ability to plan, direct, coordinate work activities of others


* Build and maintain relationships with other teams in the wider IT organization

Qualifications:


* High School Diploma or GED required, advanced degree or certification preferred


* 5+ years of healthcare industry experience


* 3 + years relevant experience in product management, operational effectiveness


* Medicare related Knowledge preference


* Excellent time and priorit...