Product Owner II (Remote)

American Specialty Health Incorporated is seeking a Product Owner II to join our Product Ownership department. This position will work closely with stakeholders throughout the organization and beyond in order to create, groom and prioritize a team backlog.

Remote Worker Considerations: 

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

• 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 the 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 groomed 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.
• Identify, manage, and prioritize cross-team priorities.
• 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.
• Incorporate stakeholder input into product roadmap while effectively negotiating tradeoffs of conflicting priorities based on value to the business and customer.
• Present to internal stakeholders as the product expert with in-depth understanding of the business and product.
• Participate in inception workshops in cross-functional group settings
• Coordinate troubleshooting and analysis of issues from internal and external users and solutions all the way through resolution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent experience. If equivalent experience, high school diploma required.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working as a Product Owner or Business Analyst.
• In-depth knowledge of agile process and principles.
• Creating, prioritizing, and accepting user stories.
• Writing clear and concise acceptance criteria.
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills.
• Excellent listening and interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem solver with ability to motivate and lead the scrum team to an appropriate solution and timeline.

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 in