Product Owner (Health Plan) || Evolent Health || Remote
Product Management In Health Plans Serve as a product owner on an Agile development team. Define, document, and communicate requirements for strategic initiatives based on stakeholder input and research. Translate business requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria. Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop new features and enhance existing functionality. Manage the intake of enhancements to ensure completeness of problem definition and feasibility of a solution within the existing and modernized platform. Manage the documentation and intake of technical debt items from the engineering team to maintain a complete and prioritized backlog. Participate in issue/risk mitigation and creative solutioning to deliver within established time and resource constraints. Communicate effectively with relevant parties throughout all phases of development and surface project risks and changes to delivery timelines. Drive system user acceptance. Support creation of training and product documentation (release notes, user guides) to ensure user understanding of data and software features. Organize and perform regular product demonstrations of new feature functionality to the stakeholder teams. Participate in established production support process, including reproduction of reported issue and gap analysis of actual and expected functionality. Provides direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders. Plans and prioritizes product feature backlog and software development for the product. Sets expectations with stakeholders and strategically plan sprint and release cycles to deliver incremental value, in keeping with the MVP model. Works with the Product Manager to translate the roadmap features into well-defined development criteria including features, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Work with Business domain technical leads and Engineering Technical leads to make sure all software is being built to the desired functional specifications. Key participant in user acceptance testing (externally and internally) and systems sign-off. Alert product managers to potential risks and issues of importance. Exceptional communicator with the ability to coordinate and builds strong teamwork across domain level product, engineer, stakeholder teams through Technical Domain Forums (bringing all Pos, Lead engineers, and stakeholders into a consistent forum to cross collaborate). Ability to synthesize technical communications for executive level presentations and delivery through Executive Level Roadmap Steering Committee forums. Competencies in disseminating product vision and strategy across teams. Familiarity with agile scrum methodologies. The Experience You'll Need (Required): Bachelor's Degree, 3+ years of experience in Product Management in Health Plans (Humana, Centene, Magellan, Client, United Healthcare, Client, Healthcare, CVS Health etc), 3+ years' experience in healthcare, IT business analyst, and/or product management. Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and track multiple tasks to successful completion. Team player that is assertive, passionate, and goal-oriented. Interested in exploring the application of new and emerging technologies to meet business needs. Proven track record in establishing strong relationships with stakeholders. Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences. Strong analytical and research skills. Microsoft Office experience (Excel, Visio)