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Product Owner: User Story Development
Location: Ideally Hartford, CT or Burlington, MA – I will consider 100% remote as well but onsite is preferred!
Duration: 8 months to start, but can more likely be long term 2-3 years
Interview Process: Need more information
Job Description:
· Works with product management and stakeholders to align on business value, problem statements, and customer pain points that are strategic priorities for CVS Health
· Provides subject matter expertise – explaining product vision and user stories to the team to ensure requirements are understood and customer value is delivered
· Collaborates with development team to elaborate and define technical learnings into refined and prioritized backlog items that align to Iteration Objectives.
· Responsible for defining and prioritizing stories that will increase velocity and quality of the program
· Responsible for assuring a level of quality has been achieved by validating that the Story meets acceptance criteria and has met acceptance tests. Approves stories as complete.
· Responsible to update product management on Story status to align on delivery expectations
· Responsible for building, prioritizing, monitoring/editing, and maintaining the flow of Team Backlog to ensure the delivery of the customer satisfaction and multi-million dollar business value
· Sets the runway for early business value and customer impact by determining sequencing of sprint planning
· Leads the team in identifying dependencies and tradeoffs as well as problem solving risks that may appear in the Team Backlog
· Program Increment Planning
· Partner with Product Management, who is responsible for the Program Backlog, to assist in preparing for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting.
· Identify the potential enablers and spikes for discussion in the Program Increment
· Drafts the team’s objectives and defines features for the Program Increment session
· Collaborates with the team to produce the PI system demo and the Product Owner presents it to program stakeholders.
· Maintain Conceptual and Technical Integrity of Features/Components
· Partner with design function to consider usability testing and end-user feedback to ensure product will address and resolve user pain points
· Provide architecture and development teams sufficiently detailed feedback on user stories and product vision to ensure the team maintains the technical integrity of features / functionality
Required Qualifications
· 5+ years required experience as Product Owner, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Consulting, IT, or related field. Previous experience in agile product development helpful.
· Strong critical thinker who makes balanced, insightful decisions using solutions based thinking in problem solving, asking probing questions and looking for underlying issues
· Ability to effectively work on teams within a highly collaborative environment.
· Strong negotiation, organizational, management, analytical and people skills
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, individual contributors)
· Ability to maintain working relationships with all levels of the organization.
· Broad understanding of core programming and computer science concepts
· Experience in healthcare industry preferred (modify as necessary … Retail, Pharmacy, etc.)
· Familiarity with agile processes, such as scrum, Kanban, and/or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Education
· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Ravi Yadav
IT Recruiter
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