Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY
We are currently recruiting for a Digital Product Owner based out of its corporate headquarters in Elmwood Park, NJ.
Additionally, the manager will work closely with the CIO, key stakeholders, the PMO, and IT leaders on prioritizing IT programs and projects to ensure alignment with the general goals and objectives for the company.
PRINCIPAL JOB DUTIES
Duties may include but are not necessarily limited to the following:
• Represents the business community
• Ensures value delivery
• Acts as a voice of the customer
• Drives definition and design for new functionality, which includes writing user stories, breaking down large stories, and specifying acceptance criteria
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
• Plan, prioritize and groom product feature backlog
• Execute plan and prioritization of development for the product, while exercising release planning
• Define product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Work closely with Product Management and Business Stakeholders to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or return on investment
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Research and analyze similar products, the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Other duties as assigned

EDUCATION
BS degree in computer science, business, management information systems, or related field

EXPERIENCE AND REQUIRED SKILLS
• 5-7 years with product ownership or product management in agile/waterfall software development. Healthcare industry a plus. Strong design-centered thinking.
• Ability to connect with all stakeholders and deliver expected results
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Creative thinker with a vision and ability to improve user experience through effective functionality and UI design
• Working experience with roadmaps and deployments of production applications, including in-house applications and public facing websites.
• Strong communication and presentation skills (oral and written) to shape messages to the appropriate level of audience
• Advanced skills preparing and presenting product roadmap
• Ability to understand complex business flows