Agile Product Owner

Corewell Health$80K — $95K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associates Degree or equivalent required; Bachelor's preferred
  • 2 years of product management or multi-team product ownership experience
  • Experience using lean and/or agile methodologies
  • Proven ability to lead strategy and build relationships with diverse stakeholders
  • Experience with IT teams to deliver cross-domain technology solutions
  • Ability to track key performance indicators (KPIs) for large projects
  • Familiarity with software development tools like JIRA or Rally

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with agile teams to set and meet program increment objectives
  • Convey vision and goals for new feature prioritization
  • Attend and participate in all agile ceremonies
  • Write user stories, acceptance criteria, and relevant documentation
  • Oversee end-state product experiences
  • Rally cross-functional teams around business goals
  • Groom the team backlog and prioritize tasks
  • Communicate status and progress to leadership

Benefits

  • Participation in safety initiatives
  • Opportunity to provide guidance and training to less experienced team members
  • Involvement in agile ceremonies and processes
  • Professional development opportunities to enhance skills
  • Collaborative work environment with diverse stakeholders
Full Job Description

Job Summary

Under minimal supervision, an effective Product Owner (PO) has a significant role in maximizing the value produced by the agile team and ensuring stories meet the user's needs and comply with the Definition of Done. The product owner is responsible for Program Increment planning, Iteration execution, program execution, participation in inspect and adapt event as well as content authority for the teams backlog.

This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the agile team, including working with Product Management, Customers, Business Owners, and other stakeholders.

Essential Functions

  • Collaborate with their agile team(s) to create objectives for each 10 week program increment and be responsible for meeting those objectives with the team.

  • Convey the vision and goals to their team for each new feature prioritized.

  • Attend all regularly scheduled ceremonies as part of the teams Agile ceremonies, including but not limited to Iteration planning, Iteration demos, system demos, retrospectives, and program increment planning events.

  • Write detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, diagrams, and other documentation to facilitate technical development.

  • Responsible for the end-state product/property experiences.

  • Rally cross-functional teams around business objectives and goals.

  • Grooming the team backlog and prioritizing work efforts.

  • Communicate status and progress externally to business and operation leadership Regularly provides guidance and training to less experienced Product Owners.

  • Actively participates in safety initiatives and risk mitigating measures where appropriate and completes all position and unit safety related competencies and requirements on a timely basis.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required

  • Associates Degree or equivalent

  • 2 years of relevant experience years of experience typically gained through;

  • Product management or multi-team product ownership experience.

  • Using lean and/or agile approaches to develop solutions.

  • Leading strategy.

  • Building relationships with diverse stakeholders both inside and outside of the company.

  •  Working with IT team(s) to deliver large, cross domain technology solutions.

  •   Identifying and tracking key performance indicators (KPI’s) for large projects.

  •   Working with software development ticketing software like JIRA, Rally, Pivotal Tracker, etc...

Preferred

  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent

  • 5 years of relevant experience Product Ownership

  • 5 years of relevant experience Experienced using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

  • 5 years of relevant experience Formal or informal Leadership

  • 5 years of relevant experience Experience in a Large organization in similar size and complexity to Spectrum Health.



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