Agile Product Owner/Sr. Advisor - Evernorth Accountable Care - Hybrid

Evernorth Accountable Care is a new business focused on partnering with healthcare providers to form value-based care relationships, improving care for patients and reducing total healthcare costs. The Agile Product Owner will focus on development and maintenance of network management applications in support of long-term growth of the business. This individual will act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology to set business objectives, communicate capability requirements, and establish priority of enhancements. Additionally, the Agile Product Owner will identify opportunities and implement process improvements, establishing deadlines, aligning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress against goals.

Key responsibilities would include serving as a primary business liaison for the scrum teams to support business intent and application usability, ensuring features and user stories are well defined with clear acceptance criteria that can be worked by technology teams, facilitating refinement sessions, setting direction regarding prioritization of work, leading and/or participating in agile ceremonies. Individual will be responsible for cross team collaboration with other product owners to ensure ART level priorities are aligned and work with product manager on program-level priorities and objectives. Additionally, this role includes developing and implementing processes for effective implementation and integration, creating standard operating procedures, and transitioning the capability into a business-as-usual environment.

Essential Functions

• Translate business and user objectives into requirements and acceptance criteria, developing and documenting business requirements in a detailed and timely manner

• Collaborate in an Agile environment and liaison with team members to effectively communicate business requirements and expectations

• Ensure a healthy backlog of work is documented in support of business objectives

• Document and maintain application roadmaps to effectively manage expectations internally and externally

• Participate in and/or facilitate ideation and strategy sessions to identify features that will continually enhance business usability and capabilities.

• Test application features in a QA and Production environments to verify accuracy and ensure content is defect free

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field strongly preferred. Master’s Degree in related field ideal.

• Experience within healthcare required

• At least 1 year working knowledge of agile methodology and experience interfacing with technology teams in an agile environment required

• Advanced knowledge of programs like Jira, Jira Align, Confluence & SharePoint

• Experience managing or optimizing digital products or websites preferre

• Proven ability to develop strong working relationships and establish a high level of credibility across functional and lines of business

• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

• Ability to sustain momentum under challenging circumstances, working with all stakeholders and delivery teams

• Demonstrates strong decision making skills and problem solving techniques

• Demonstrates ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team in a fast paced, high volume, rapidly changing environment

• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles

• Both technically deep and business savvy enough to interface with cross-functional partners

• Strong interpersonal, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 109,900 - 183,100 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That’s why you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. Fo