Product Owner I (Remote)

American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) is seeking a Product Owner I to join our Product Ownership department.

The primary purpose of this position is to work closely with stakeholders throughout the organization and beyond in order to create, refine, and prioritize a team backlog.

Remote Worker Guidelines

• Remote Worker Guidelines: This position will be trained remotely and must be able to work from home (WFH) in a designated work area with company-provided technology equipment. This WFH position requires you have a stable connection to your Internet Service Provider with the ability to participate by video in online meetings over a reliable and consistent network. The internet connection must have a consistent 50 down/10 up Mbps minimum internet speed. 100 down/20 up is recommended to support higher quality video meetings.

Responsibilities

• The Product Owner I will:
  • Work with other departments and product teams to assess, initiate, refine and drive appropriate functional solutions.
  • Gather requirements from key stakeholders and break those down into user stories for your scrum team to develop.
  • Be present in all scrum ceremonies as well as available to scrum team.
  • Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of refined user stories ready for development.
  • Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
  • Write clear and concise acceptance criteria for each user story.
  • Plan and prioritize product backlog and development of the product.
  • Contribute to final approval and acceptance testing
  • Effectively communicate the product strategy to key stakeholders and team members.
  • Play an active role in mitigating non-technical impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
  • Partner across different teams and departments as needed to coordinate delivery plans, testing, training, and support.
  • Partner closely with engineering, user experience, customer experience strategy, and design teams to ensure quality and consistency of experience.
  • Coordinate troubleshooting and analysis of issues from internal and external users and solutions all the way through resolution.
  • Define and document business requirements, use cases, data flows, and research/process analysis for cross functional solutions.
  • Familiar with behavioral driven development (BDD) concepts and the Gherkin language format.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, related field, or equivalent experience required. If equivalent experience, high school diploma required.
• 1 year working experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst required.
• Experience with creating, prioritizing, and accepting user stories required.
• Good knowledge of agile process and principles.
• Good communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Good listening and interpersonal communication skills.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively manage projects, remove barriers, monitor milestones and accomplish deliverables.

Core Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to interact in a positive, respectful manner and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
• Ability to display excellent customer service to meet the needs and expectations of both internal and external customers.
• Excellent listening and interpersonal communication skills to identify critical core competencies based on success factors and organizational environment.
• Ability to effectively organize, prioritize, multi-task and manage time.
• Demonstrated accuracy and productivity in a changing environment with constant interruptions.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information, problems, issues, situations,