Responsibilities/Success Factors

Specifically, the Product Owner is a lead role and will be expected to:

• Own a feature or product capability and backlog prioritization.
• Drive sprint planning with engineering leaders.
• Understand and contribute to the development of the product roadmap through having a clear understanding of the market needs and drivers, the customer business model, and the platform.
• Translate client business needs as it relates to product optimization.
• Assist with rapid, prototype-based requirement gathering.
• Write detailed functional specifications, for use by both technical and non-technical readers, that describe business transaction functionality.
• Review engineering designs.
• Implement against requirements.
• Participate in daily scrum and “scrum of scrum” meetings, product demos, and backlog grooming sessions.
• Develop go-to-market tool kit.
• Support UAT.
• Identify and clear any technical roadblocks.

 

Ideal Qualifications

• Previous experience working in healthcare payer industry, preferred.
• Applied experience in Agile teams and applying continuous improvement practices.
• Demonstrable experience building detailed functional specifications for use by both technical and non-technical readers.
• Ability to quickly assimilate a customer’s business model plan and manage application design, architecture, and integration activities.
• Experience with cloud development and cloud infrastructures.
• Understanding of web-oriented design best practices and principles.
• Expert understanding of SaaS platform capabilities and partner tools.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical/business discipline.

 

Ideal Personal Characteristics

• A Focus on Execution. A self-starter with a bias for action. A non-political team player who can quickly establish himself/herself as a trusted member of the team and can be relied upon to get things done.
• Company Focused. Someone who identifies closely with and is committed to the achievement of the Company’s mission while working in concert with other groups internally and externally.
• Adaptable to changes. A hands-on team player. Grounded/pragmatic; someone who naturally adjusts to changing internal/external dynamics, priorities and challenges. Optimist / “can-do” attitude; values people and focuses on “doing the right thing”.
• Energetic and Optimistic. HighRoads is a dynamic, innovative company with a “can-do” culture. It wants leaders at every level who continue to build on this culture.
• “Ownership” Mindset. The successful candidate will have a proven ability to pursue his/her objectives passionately with an ownership mentality and a focus on the overall success of the Company.
• Maturity and Independence. Someone who speaks with confidence and leads rather than follows. A highly ethical and intelligent professional. A thoroughly honest and forthright individual who is up-front and direct with subordinates, peers and top management executives.