Agile Product Owner IV

Premera Blue Cross•Mountlake Terrace, WA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Premera is looking for an Agile Product Owner who will have a critical role in advancing our business process automation strategy, with a focus on the transformation of highly regulated workflows. The Agile Product Owner IV will help us deliver streamlined, reliable experiences that meaningfully support our customers and providers during key moments of need. As we expand our automation capabilities, this work will increasingly integrate AI to drive smarter decisions and operational efficiency. We are looking for a product leader who is energized by digging into complex problems and shaping modern solutions that improve our customers' lives and make healthcare work better now and in the future. If you’re interested in leveraging AI and automation to improve the performance of the business, this Agile Product Owner position might be the right opportunity for you! The Agile Product Owner will act as the voice of the customer within the Agile Delivery team and lead collaboration with business stakeholders to elicit business requirements and document in the form of features and user stories. You will create, maintain, and outline work in the backlog, provide analysis on complex or abstract problems to determine which work items will produce the most business value, and prioritize those deliverables. You will develop and maintain strong relationships with business partners to ensure stakeholder buy-in and drive innovation. As a leader within Premera IT, you will also help mentor and support the development of Product Owners and foster a positive team culture. This is a hybrid role, located on our campus in Mountlake Terrace, Washington.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or equivalent. (Required)
(8) years of business systems analysis experience. (Required)
Experience in a software development environment with agile development practices, including Scrum and SAFe.
Knowledge of agile delivery models.

Nice To Haves

Experience using SQL for data analysis.
Knowledge of healthcare or health insurance industry.
Knowledge of product development tools including Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio, Confluence, and Product Plan.
Experience using AI to build out new capabilities.

Responsibilities

Act as the voice of the customer to the Agile team.
Understand the business and product strategies and represent them to the Agile team.
Act as a liaison with business stakeholders by planning, conducting, and leading analysis efforts for new product implementations.
Demonstrate business and product expertise with both deep and broad domain knowledge.
Build, own, maintain, collaborate and sequence the team backlog in alignment with product roadmap with engineers and other stakeholders.
Collaborate with the Agile team on a regular cadence to refine the backlog.
Actively collaborate with the Agile team through solution design and development.
Coordinate with other Product Owners to ensure alignment on solution, priorities, and dependencies.
Manage user acceptance testing.
Approve and accept business user stories, enablers, and tech debt product backlog items (PBIs).
Facilitate product and release demos, taking accountability for feedback and outcomes.
Collaborate with business partners, IT partners, and Agile teams to develop clear and concise measurable outcomes and business value.
Clearly communicate release content and value to business partners and IT leadership.
Prioritize issues and collaborate to make decisions required to resolve them weighing the pros/cons, risks, and dependencies.
Leverage data to guide product strategy.

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, believe it or not, 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, just to name a few.
Generous paid time off to reenergize.
Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.
For our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement.
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.
Need a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.