Product Owner

5 days ago

Des Moines, United States Wellmark Full time
Company Description

Why Wellmark: We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we've built our reputation on over 80 years' worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors-our members. If you're passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today

Why Wellmark Technology? Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work.

Job Description

As the Product Owner, you are responsible for maximizing the Federal Employee Program's (Product) value and the agile team's work by ensuring the team's backlog is prioritized and aligned with customer needs and approved business cases. You will build strong partnerships with stakeholders through continuous communication and feedback to ensure their needs are represented and the product outcomes are achieved. In addition, you will develop and convey the product's vision to the agile team, outlining and prioritizing work based on business value realization metrics. This is an incredible opportunity to use your FEP business knowledge to be a key member of this established product team.

Qualifications

Preferred:
  • Working knowledge of the Federal Employee Program and the health care domain is strongly preferred.
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA).
  • Prior experience in a Product Owner role operating within a SAFe organization.
Required:
  • Bachelor's degree or direct and applicable work experience.
  • Minimum of 4 years of experience working with or leading agile teams through the delivery of value to the product's customer, including experience using agile requirements management tools (e.g., Jira or Azure DevOps).
  • Minimum of 1 year demonstrated experience in Product Owner-type role, typically gained through membership on defined product team within Wellmark.
  • SAFe agile certification (e.g., Product Owner)
  • Demonstrated ability to be a highly functioning and influential leader on high-performing cross-functional teams; including experience successfully leading others through change.
  • Demonstrated experience with agile and/or lean product management competencies of value measurement, optimization, and eliminating waste.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage work processes by measuring, evaluating, and improving processes to achieve organizational goals.
  • Demonstrated experience effectively prioritizing and organizing to maximize personal and business efficiency.
  • Demonstrated negotiation, facilitation and influencing skills to drive decision making among stakeholders with diverse perspectives and priorities.
  • Experience with agile business analysis, including documentation of features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Proven skills in building relationships and influencing people across the organization to break down barriers and foster collaboration.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing to achieve shared vision and goals.
  • Comfort with ambiguity; strong problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Ability to identify risks and deploy appropriate mitigation strategies to meet stakeholder/functional requirements.
  • Consulting skills required with, excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
  • Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle; Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) knowledge.


Additional Information

a. Maximize the value of the product and the work of the agile team by working with the team to ensure that they have a clear vision of the priority and value of the work.

b. Act as a strong, informal, dotted-line leader and mentor to the agile team through effective two-way communication, helping employees learn new skills, identifying and managing resistance, and being an advocate.

c. Serve as the voice of the customer by creating a shared understanding of the product vision and customer needs through consistent communications with the team.

d. Active leader in the agile team's scrum events, including agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, story refinements, backlog grooming, and team retrospectives.

e. Lead iteration review meetings to demonstrate the outcomes achieved to the product team's stakeholders or customers.

f. Ensure the team understands the product priorities and executes the highest value work through lean and agile product prioritization methods (e.g., WSFJ, MoSCoW).

g. Obtain insights, prioritize, and balance multiple stakeholder priorities, and synthesize complex information, to maintain product team alignment with the vision.

h. Partner with stakeholders and customers to curate the product vision, product stack, and features to ensure that the next increment of value is executed.

i. Author the product roadmap features by creating well-defined product requirements, including features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

j. Partner with stakeholders to assess value and prioritize features and stories to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value aligned to the product strategy.

k. Manage against and participate in the refinement of Objectives and Key Results (OKR's) defined for the product team during each planning interval.

l. Evaluate progress at the end of each iteration, including the ability to define Minimum Viable Products (MVP).

m. Seek quantitative and qualitative information to comprehensively understand where the product team's solutions are not optimizing value.

n. Apply change management practices and tools in pre-planning and planning (features and user stories) to ensure impacted stakeholders and employees are prepared and equipped to adopt changes; consult with the Change Practitioner supporting Agile Release Train (ART) to monitor change readiness and adoption across the ART.

o. Understand the impact the assigned product has on the customer and work collaboratively to ensure any change is properly managed.

p. Obtain objective insights through research and analytics to analyze how a customer of the product is adopting, consuming, and benefiting from the product features.

q. Other duties as assigned.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

The policy of Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is to recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact us at careers@wellmark.com

Please inform us if you meet the definition of a "Covered DoD official".

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