Senior Product Owner - Payment

Cotiviti • Remote,

2d • $100,000 - $125,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Product Owner serves as the key bridge between business stakeholders, Operations, Business Architecture, PMO, Training/Change Enablement, and R&D. This role is responsible for translating business priorities into clear, prioritized, delivery-ready requirements that enable faster execution, stronger alignment, and better business outcomes. This role operates within an AI-native delivery environment, where the quality of written requirements directly influences build outcomes and speed. The Product Owner clarifies requirements, improves backlog quality, and ensures valuable capabilities are delivered efficiently by providing clear context, assumptions, constraints, user behaviors, and acceptance criteria for implementation.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree required.
• 5+ years of experience in a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Product Analyst, Process Analyst, or similar business-to-technology delivery role required.
• Strong ability to translate complex business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items.
• Experience working with Agile delivery teams, spring planning, backlog refinement, demos, and release cycles.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, prioritization, and execution skills required.
• Communicating with others to exchange information.
• Problem-solving and thinking critically.
• Completing tasks independently.
• Interpreting data.
• Making timely decisions in the context of a workflow.
• Maintaining focus.
• Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
• Remembering and adhering to processes and protocols.
• Applying established protocols in a timely manner.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in healthcare, payment integrity, claims, payer operations, financial services, or another highly regulated industry preferred.
• Familiarity with Jira, Smartsheet, Confluence, Lucidchart, Visio, Miro, and AI-enabled delivery tools preferred

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders, Operations, Business Architecture, PMO, Training/Change Enablement, and R&D to elicit and understand business priorities, operational pain points, and capability needs.
• Translate business needs into clear epics, features/intent, user stories, acceptance criteria, process requirements, and delivery-ready backlog items that enable AI-native workflows.
• Identify dependencies, risks, gaps, and tradeoffs early, escalating when decisions are needed.
• Own and maintain the prioritized backlog for assigned initiatives, capabilities, or product areas.
• Ensure requirements are clear, testable, aligned to business outcomes, and ready for R&D execution.
• Drive continuous delivery & continuous deployment by shaping high-quality inputs, aligning priorities, validating outputs, and ensuring readiness for release and adoption.
• Serve as the day-to-day point of clarification for R&D teams during delivery.
• Partner with Business Architecture to ensure current-state and future-state processes are reflected in requirements and solution design.
• Work with Training and Change Enablement to ensure impacted teams are prepared for new capabilities, process changes, releases, and adoption.
• Support CI/CD readiness by helping improve requirement quality, release discipline, stakeholder alignment, and adoption planning.
• Help drive adoption by ensuring delivered capabilities meet business needs and are understood by end users.
• Track business value, adoption, issues, feedback, and continuous improvement opportunities after release.
• Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting.
• Complete all special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required.
• This job description does not constitute an employment agreement and is subject to change as the needs of Cotiviti and requirements of the job change.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage
• 401(k) savings plans
• paid family leave
• 9 paid holidays per year
• 17-27 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, depending on specific level and length of service with Cotiviti

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior