Agile Product Owner III

Premera Blue Cross•Mountlake Terrace, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As an Agile Product Owner III, you will serve as the voice of the customer within an Agile delivery team, ensuring work is aligned with business priorities and delivers meaningful value. You will partner closely with business stakeholders, vendors, and technical teams to define product requirements, prioritize backlog work, and guide the delivery of product enhancements and solutions. This role plays a key part in translating business needs into actionable features and user stories, facilitating collaboration across teams, and driving product strategy through data-informed decision making. The ideal candidate brings strong Agile experience, stakeholder management skills, and a passion for delivering customer-focused solutions. This is a hybrid role, located on our campus in Mountlake Terrace, Washington

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Five (5) years of experience in product ownership, product management, business systems analysis, systems analysis, business analysis, or related Agile delivery roles.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a software development environment using Agile delivery practices, including Scrum and SAFe.
Experience translating business needs into features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Experience using SQL or other data analysis tools to support product decisions.
Knowledge of healthcare or health insurance operations.
Experience with product development and collaboration tools such as Azure DevOps, Confluence, Product Plan, and Visual Studio.

Responsibilities

Serve as the voice of the customer within the Agile team, ensuring business priorities and customer needs are clearly understood and represented.
Develop a deep understanding of business and product strategies and communicate them effectively to Agile teams and stakeholders.
Facilitate relationships with business partners, vendors, and user communities, bringing their perspectives into product planning and delivery.
Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, vendors, and technology teams for new product implementations and enhancements.
Leverage data, metrics, and customer insights to inform product strategy and prioritization decisions.
Own, maintain, prioritize, refine, and optimize the product backlog in collaboration with stakeholders and engineering teams.
Lead backlog refinement sessions to identify scope, dependencies, risks, and priorities.
Define, document, and refine business requirements through epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Prioritize work based on business value, customer impact, strategic alignment, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
Collaborate with Agile teams throughout solution design, development, testing, and release activities.
Coordinate with other Product Owners to ensure alignment on priorities, dependencies, and roadmap objectives.
Partner with business and technology leaders to develop measurable outcomes and define business value.
Facilitate product demonstrations and release reviews while taking accountability for stakeholder feedback and outcomes.
Communicate release content, product value, priorities, and roadmap progress to business partners and leadership.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with stakeholders across business and technology organizations.
Coordinate and support user acceptance testing activities.
Review, approve, and accept completed user stories, enablers, and technical debt backlog items.
Ensure quality expectations are incorporated into requirements and delivery outcomes.
Identify opportunities to improve processes, product delivery, quality standards, and operational efficiency.
Assess product opportunities and risks using key performance indicators (KPIs) and other performance metrics.
Mentor and support less experienced team members.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.
Life and disability insurance.
Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.
Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs.
Generous paid time off to reenergize.
Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.
Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.
Free convenient on-site parking.
Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.
Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more.
Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.
Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.