Agile Sr. Product Owner

Elevance Health•Atlanta, GA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Agile Sr. Product Owner is a member of the Agile leadership team and serves as the functional and/or client or business representative for one or more projects within a market focus. The role represents stakeholders, supports stakeholder satisfaction, and helps ensure that projects deliver business value. The Product Owner acts as the customer proxy and liaison between the business and Scrum Teams. They translate product features and business needs into user stories and acceptance criteria, manage and prioritize the team backlog, communicate stakeholder needs, and review and accept or reject work during sprints and sprint reviews. The role collaborates with teams and the business to develop solutions, define product direction, plan releases, and ensure delivery meets contractual requirements, acceptance criteria, quality and performance expectations, service-level commitments, and process-compliance guidelines. This is a hybrid role requiring associates to work in the office 1–2 days per week. Alternate locations may be considered, but candidates must be within a reasonable commuting distance of the posting location unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) and at least 5 years of experience writing business or functional requirements and implementing Agile methodologies, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

Leading SAFe (SA) certification is strongly preferred.
Pragmatic certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as the customer proxy and liaison between the business and Scrum Teams.
Translate features and stakeholder needs into complex user stories and acceptance criteria.
Create, maintain, rank, and prioritize the project backlog throughout the project life cycle.
Communicate stakeholder needs to teams so delivery meets contractual requirements and established acceptance criteria, including quality and performance expectations.
Complete work-management activities according to service-level commitments and process-compliance guidelines.
Collaborate with teams to discover and deliver solutions to market problems presented by the Product Manager or business.
Work with the business to understand, coordinate, rank, and prioritize business needs and plan solutions that provide value to end users, sales, and marketing with each release.
Manage solution-concept development so the product team understands direction and vision.
Represent stakeholders as the Product Management business proxy and decision point.
Perform final testing and acceptance of user stories supporting product features.
Review and accept or reject results during sprints and sprint reviews.
Attend sprint meetings and remain available to clarify and accept user stories during the sprint.
Create or contribute to a project release plan.
Present work from the Team Backlog during Sprint Planning, negotiate with the team, and establish sprint goals.