Agile Product Owner Senior

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Agile Product Owner Senior

Location:  This position will work a hybrid model (remote and office). The ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.

Carelon Health is a proud member of the Elevance Health family of brands, offering clinical programs and primary care options for seniors. We are a team of committed clinicians and business leaders passionate about transforming American healthcare delivery.

The AGILE PRODUCT OWNER SENIOR is responsible for acting as a member of the Agile leadership team and is the functional and/or client (or business) representative for a project or set of projects within a market-focus to ensure stakeholder satisfaction and business value delivered. As a Product Owner for Data Mining Solutions, you will be responsible for defining and delivering comprehensive data analysis products that unlock value for our clients. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, prioritize features, and drive the product vision to fruition. Your role is pivotal in ensuring that our data mining solutions align with business objectives and provide meaningful insights.

How you will make an impact:

• Product Vision & Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy for data mining solutions that align with the company’s goals and market needs.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with internal stakeholders to gather requirements, define product features, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Backlog Management: Prioritize and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that development efforts focus on delivering maximum value.
• Agile Practices: Lead the development team in agile practices, including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure efficient product delivery.
• User Story Development: Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure product development aligns with client needs and expectations.
• Product Performance: Monitor product performance, user feedback, and data outcomes to ensure continuous improvement and adaptation.
• Cross-functional Leadership: Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, UX/UI designers, and other team members to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Roadmap Planning: Create and maintain a clear product roadmap to guide development efforts and communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Serves as the customer proxy and therefore is the liaison between the business and the Scrum Teams; translating features into complex user stories within a teams backlog and managing, ranking and prioritizing this backlog so that it is reflective of stakeholder requirements and priorities.
• Final testing and acceptance of the user stories supporting the features.
• Effectively communicate to the team the stakeholder needs so the teams delivery meets both contractual requirements and established acceptance criteria, including expected quality and performance and to complete various work management activities according to defined service level commitments and process compliancy guidelines.
• Collaborate with team(s) to discover and deliver the best solution to the market problem(s) presented by the Product Manager (business).
• Works with the business to understand coordinate ranking and prioritize business needs and plan solutions to ensure that each release provides business value to end users sales and marketing.
• Manage the solution concept development process to ensure the product team understand the direction and vision.
• Create and maintain regularly backlog of work through the project's life cycle.
• Understands how to write user stories and their acceptance criteria.
• Translates the product backlog into user stories.
• Serve as the Product Management (business) proxy and decision point to represent the stakeholders in the project.
• Reviews and accepts/rejects results both during a Sprint and in the Sprint review.
• Attends sprint meetings and is available to team during the sprint for clarifications and acceptance of user stories.
• Creates and/or inputs into a projects release plan.
• Presents work to team from Team Backlog during Sprint Planning for acceptance by the Team, Sprint negotiates, and Sprint goals.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires a BA/BS and minimum of 5 years experience with writing business/functional requirements and experience implementing Agile methodologies; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:

• Leading SAFe (SA) certification, CSPO or equivalent (Certified Scrum Product Owner) and/or SPO/PM (SAFE Product Owner/Product Manager) strongly preferred.
• Payment Integrity experience is strongly preferred.

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Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process. Candidates must reside within 50 miles or 1-hour commute each way of a relevant Elevance Health location.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact elevancehealthjobssupport@elevancehealth.com for assistance. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.