Agile Product Owner – Wellpoint Federal

Elevance Health•Cincinnati, OH

8d•$74,100 - $122,850•Hybrid

About The Position

The Agile Product Owner is a member of the Agile leadership team and serves as the functional and/or client or business representative for a project or set of projects within a market focus. The role acts as a proxy and decision point for Product Management, representing stakeholder needs throughout the project lifecycle and helping teams deliver solutions that address business problems and provide value to end users, sales, and marketing. The position translates features and product backlogs into user stories and acceptance criteria, manages backlog ranking and prioritization, and communicates stakeholder needs so delivery meets contractual requirements, acceptance criteria, quality and performance expectations, service-level commitments, and process-compliance guidelines. The Product Owner maintains the solution vision, roadmap, backlog, and release plan; collaborates with teams and the business to identify and plan solutions; and participates in sprint activities to present work, clarify requirements, and review and accept or reject results. This is a hybrid position requiring associates to work in-office 1–2 days per week. Candidates must be within reasonable commuting distance of the posting locations unless an accommodation is granted. For the Wellpoint Federal division, foreign national applicants must have lived in the United States for at least three of the past five years. If assigned to a Government Business Division entity, the role may be designated sensitive and subject to additional requirements, such as more frequent background checks or government clearances, role-specific training, monitoring, and sensitive-data handling instructions.

Requirements

Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree and at least 3 years of experience writing business or functional requirements and implementing Agile methodologies, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Foreign national applicants to the Wellpoint Federal division must have lived in the United States for at least three of the past five years.
Candidates must be within reasonable commuting distance of the posting location(s), unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Nice To Haves

Experience using ServiceNow.
Prior experience with system implementation of new features.
Track record of leading continuous improvement initiatives, including process optimization and standardization.
SAFe (SA) certification.
CSPO or equivalent Certified Scrum Product Owner certification.

Responsibilities

Translate features into user stories in the team backlog and rank and prioritize the backlog to reflect stakeholder requirements and priorities.
Communicate stakeholder needs to the team so delivery meets contractual requirements, acceptance criteria, quality and performance expectations, service-level commitments, and process-compliance guidelines.
Collaborate with teams to discover and deliver solutions to market problems presented by the Product Manager.
Work with the business to understand, rank, and prioritize business needs and plan solutions that provide business value to end users, sales, and marketing.
Create and regularly maintain the solution vision, roadmap, and backlog throughout the project lifecycle.
Translate the product backlog into user stories and define acceptance criteria.
Serve as the Product Management business proxy and decision point representing project stakeholders.
Review and accept or reject results during sprints and at sprint reviews.
Attend sprint meetings and remain available to the team during sprints for clarification and user-story acceptance.
Create or contribute to the project's release plan.
Present work from the Team Backlog during Sprint Planning for team acceptance, negotiate sprint work, and establish sprint goals.