Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Translating features into user stories within a teams backlog and managing ranking and prioritizing this backlog so that it is reflective of stakeholder requirements and priorities.
• 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, rank and prioritize business needs and plan solutions to ensure that each release provides business value to end users sales and marketing.
• Create and maintain regularly the solution vision roadmap and 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.

Skills:
 

• Must have strong background building user backlogs and experience with provider data. 
• 5 years' plus experience with writing business/functional requirements and experience implementing Agile methodologies