American Specialty Health Incorporated is seeking a Product Owner I to join our Operations Fitness department. The Product Owner will work closely with stakeholders throughout the organization and beyond in order to create, groom and prioritize a team backlog.

Salary Range

American Specialty Health complies with state and federal wage and hour laws and compensation depends upon candidate’s qualifications, education, skill set, years of experience, and internal equity. $48,000.00 to $65,000.00 Full-Time Annual Salary Range.

Remote Worker Considerations

Candidates who are selected for this position will be trained remotely and must be able to work from home in a designated work area with company-provided technology equipment. This remote/WFH position requires you have a stable connection to your Internet Service Provider with the ability to participate by video in online meetings over a reliable and consistent network (minimum internet download of 50 Mbps and 10 Mbps upload speed).

Responsibilities

Work with other departments and product teams to assess, initiate, refine and drive appropriate functional solutions.
Gather requirements from key stakeholders and break those down into user stories for your scrum team to develop.
Be present in all scrum ceremonies as well as available to scrum team
Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of groomed user stories ready for development.
Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
Write clear and concise acceptance criteria for each user story.
Plan and prioritize product backlog and development of the product.
Contribute to final approval and acceptance testing
Effectively communicate the product strategy to key stakeholders and team members.
Play an active role in mitigating non-technical impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
Partner across different teams and departments as needed to coordinate delivery plans, testing, training and support.
Partner closely with engineering, user experience, customer experience strategy, and design teams to ensure quality and consistency of experience.
Coordinate trouble shooting and analysis of issues from internal and external users and solutions all the way through resolution.
Define and document business requirements, use cases, data flows, and research/process analysis for cross functional solutions.
Familiar with behavioral driven development (BDD) concepts and the Gherkin language format.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, related field, or equivalent experience. If equivalent experience, high school diploma required.
Minimum of 1 year of working experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst.
Good knowledge of agile process and principles.
Experience with creating, prioritizing and accepting user stories.
Good communication, presentation and leadership skills.
Good listening and interpersonal communication skills.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to effectively manage projects, remove barriers, monitor milestones and accomplish deliverables.

Core Competencies

Demonstrated ability to interact in a positive, respectful manner and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
Ability to display excellent customer service to meet the needs and expectations of both internal and external customers.
Excellent listening and interpersonal communication skills to identify critical core competencies based on success factors and organizational environment.
Ability to effectively organize, prioritize, multi-task and manage time.
Demonstrated accuracy and productivity in a changing environment with constant interruptions.
Demonstrated ability to analyze information, problems, issues, situations and procedures to develop effective solutions.
Ability to exercise strict confidentiality in all matters.