Product Owner II (Remote)

American Specialty Health Incorporated

4d•$69,200 - $95,000•Remote

About The Position

American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) is seeking a Product Owner II to join its Product department. The role works with stakeholders across the organization to shape, refine, and prioritize product work. It supports ASH’s focus on improving health outcomes at scale, lowering system cost and complexity, and creating human-centered experiences. The role’s work contributes to services affecting more than 62 million people nationwide. The Product Owner owns the product backlog and guides discovery, requirements, user-story refinement, prioritization, iteration planning, and acceptance testing. The role works closely with engineering, user experience, customer experience strategy, design, and other departments to coordinate product delivery and ensure quality and consistency. It uses AI-assisted tools in discovery and requirements work and partners with an AI-first engineering team. The position is described as remote, with remote training and a requirement to work from home in a designated work area using company-provided technology and a stable internet connection (minimum 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload; 100/20 Mbps recommended). The posting also describes the environmental conditions as hybrid onsite, in an office and/or work-from-home environment. The stated full-time annual salary range is $69,200 to $95,000, with compensation dependent on qualifications, education, skills, experience, and internal equity.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience; a high school diploma is required if qualifying through equivalent experience.
At least 3 years of experience working as a Product Owner or Business Analyst, with demonstrated ability to lead projects and Scrum teams.
High proficiency in agile processes and principles.
High proficiency and hands-on familiarity with AI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar; actively learning and experimenting with their use in product work.
High proficiency in creating, prioritizing, and accepting user stories.
Ability to write clear and concise acceptance criteria.
Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Problem-solving ability and capacity to motivate and lead a Scrum team toward an appropriate solution and timeline.
Certified Scrum Product Owner certification required within 1.5 years.
Ability to build positive, respectful, cooperative working relationships.
Ability to provide excellent customer service to internal and external customers.
Excellent listening and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to organize, prioritize, multitask, and manage time effectively.
Accuracy and productivity in a changing environment with constant interruptions.
Ability to analyze information, problems, issues, situations, and procedures to develop effective solutions.
Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
For the work-from-home arrangement, ability to work in a designated home workspace with company-provided technology and a reliable internet connection of at least 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload; 100/20 Mbps is recommended.

Responsibilities

Own the product backlog end-to-end by writing, refining, and prioritizing user stories that provide clarity for the team.
Work with other departments and product teams to assess, initiate, refine, and drive functional solutions.
Gather requirements from key stakeholders and translate them into user stories for the Scrum team.
Use AI-assisted tools during discovery and requirements work to interrogate business needs, stress-test assumptions, and develop sharper questions.
Work alongside an AI-first engineering team and maintain curiosity about how its AI tools and practices work.
Participate purposefully in Scrum ceremonies, make clear decisions, and prevent ambiguity from blocking progress.
Ensure an adequate supply of refined user stories is ready for development.
Manage the backlog, plan iterations, and elaborate user stories.
Write clear acceptance criteria for developers and testers.
Plan and prioritize the product backlog and product development.
Identify, manage, and prioritize cross-team priorities.
Contribute to final approval and acceptance testing.
Communicate product strategy effectively to stakeholders and team members.
Help mitigate non-technical impediments affecting successful completion of release and sprint goals.
Coordinate delivery plans, testing, training, and support with other teams and departments.
Partner with engineering, user experience, customer experience strategy, and design teams to ensure quality and consistency of experience.
Incorporate stakeholder input into the product roadmap and negotiate trade-offs among conflicting priorities based on business and customer value.
Present to internal stakeholders as a product subject matter expert with an in-depth understanding of the business and product.
Participate in cross-functional inception workshops.
Coordinate troubleshooting and analysis of issues from internal and external users through resolution.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all policies and standards.