Elevance Health Hiring for Agile Product Owner Sr (US) at Columbia, South Carolina Full Time

Agile Product Owner Sr (US)

• Job Family: Business Support

• Type: Full time

• Date Posted:Feb 03, 2023

• Req #: JR51003

Location:

• IL, Chicago

• Nevada, Las Vegas

• Colorado, Denver

• California, San Diego

• California, Los Angeles

• New York, New York City

• Connecticut, Wallingford

• Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

• National +50 Miles away from nearest PulsePoint, National +50 Miles away from nearest PulsePoint

• Virginia, Richmond

• Texas, Houston

• California, Woodland Hills

• Ohio, Mason

• Wisconsin, Waukesha

• Georgia, Atlanta

• Missouri, St. Louis

• Kentucky, Louisville

• Texas, San Antonio

• Texas, Dallas

• Indiana, Indianapolis

• Maine, South Portland

• New Hampshire, Manchester

• Arizona, Phoenix

• California, San Jose

Description

Senior Agile Product Owner

Hybrid: 0-3 times/month in office

The Senior Agile Product Owner is responsible for acting as a member of the Agile leadership team and is the functional and/or client (or business) representative for a project or set of projects within a market focus to ensure stakeholder satisfaction and business value delivered.

How you would make an impact:

• Write user stories and their acceptance criteria.

• Translate features into user stories within a team’s product backlog, manage to rank and prioritize this backlog so that it reflects the stakeholder requirements and priorities, and ensure business value is delivered to the end users in each release.

• Final testing and acceptance of the user stories supporting the features.

• Effectively communicate to the team the stakeholder needs so the team’s delivery meets both contractual requirements and established acceptance criteria including expected quality and performance.

• Complete various work management activities according to defined service level commitments and process compliance guidelines including Jira and Jira Align updating and hygiene.

• Collaborate with cross-functional team(s) in a matrixed environment to discover and deliver the best solutions to the market problem(s) presented by the Product Manager (business).

• Works with the business to understand, rank and prioritize business needs and plan solutions to ensure that each release provides business value to end users’ sales and marketing.

• Manage the solution concept development process to ensure the product team understands the direction and vision.

• Create and regularly maintain the solution vision roadmap and the backlog of work through the project’s life cycle.

• Translates the backlog into user stories. Serve as the Product Management (business) proxy and decision point to represent the stakeholders during refinements.

• Reviews and accepts/rejects results both during a Sprint and in the Sprint review.

• Attends sprint ceremonies and is available to the team during the sprint for clarifications and acceptance of user stories.

• Creates and/or provides inputs into a project’s release plan.

• Presents work to the team from team backlog during Sprint Planning for acceptance by the team in a Sprint and negotiates Sprint goals with the team.

• Identifies dependent teams and ensures user stories are aligned to dependent team backlogs and releases to meet commitments.

• Manages the solution concept development process to ensure the technical/development team understands the direction and vision.

• Develops test cases/scenarios and works collaboratively with QA to ensure thorough testing. Accepts the user stories supporting the identified features.

• Some travel from time to time.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires a BA/BS and minimum of 5 years experience with writing business/functional requirements and experience implementing Agile methodologies; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• An individual with creativity, curiosity, initiative, and a passion to define and deliver high-impact solutions that address market problems highly desired.

• Knowledge of healthcare claims coding concepts including CPT/HCPCS and ICD Codes highly preferred.

• Leading SAFe (SA) certification, CSPO or equivalent (Certified Scrum Product Owner), and/or SPO/PM (SAFE Product Owner/Product Manager) strongly preferred.

• Previous solution experience in a healthcare claims payment environment.

• Pragmatic Marketing certification or equivalent experience in product management methodologies.

• Preferred experience working in Jira/Jira Align.

For candidates working in person or remotely in the below locations, the salary* range for this specific position is $87,400 to $157,440.

Locations: California; Colorado; Nevada; Washington State; Jersey City, NJ; New York City, NY; Ithaca, NY and Westchester County, NY

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase, and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the company. The company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws .

• The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future and actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level. Even within the range, the actual compensation will vary depending on the above factors as well as market/business considerations. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Accordingly, Elevance Health is not obligated to pay referral fees to any agency that is not a party to an agreement with Elevance Health. Thus, any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

Be part of an Extraordinary Team

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. Previously known as Anthem, Inc., we have evolved into a company focused on whole health and updated our name to better reflect the direction the company is heading.

We are looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve. You will thrive in a complex and collaborative environment where you take action and ownership to solve problems and lead change. Do you want to be part of a larger purpose and an evolving, high-performance culture that empowers you to make an impact?

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates to become vaccinated against COVID-19. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide – and Elevance Health approves – a valid religious or medical explanation as to why you are not able to get vaccinated that Elevance Health is able to reasonably accommodate. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health has been named as a Fortune Great Place To Work in 2021, is ranked as one of the 2021 World’s Most Admired Companies among health insurers by Fortune magazine, and a Top 20 Fortune 500 Companies on Diversity and Inclusion. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit us at careers.ElevanceHealth.com. Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact [email protected] for assistance.

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