The Product Owner, Mobile, serves as the primary conduit between the business units and engineering, focusing on delivering value in an emerging agile environment with a recently launched mobile platform. The Product Owner, Mobile, will act as an independent decision maker directing the work related to analysis, development, and testing resources of a given agile team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist Product Management in translating high-level vision & strategy into an actional product plan specific to the mobile platform
- Identify project scope utilizing industry best practices and document requirements while maintaining an agile mindset
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers and QA, to deliver high-quality product increments in each sprint
- Provide assigned team(s) with an in-depth understanding of business requirements and needs
- Make trade-off decisions between scope and schedule to optimize the delivery of value
- Create and maintain the product backlog, ensuring it is prioritized and aligned with the overall product strategy
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to identify product improvements and analyze needs & trends
- Effectively manage competing priorities from various stakeholders, specifically external mobile users and internal operations
- Gather continuous feedback from users and stakeholders to continuously iterate and improve
- Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions
- Mitigate roadblocks to achieve sprint & release goals
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration or equivalent
- Five+ years experience in a software development organization
- Two+ years’ proven experience as a Product Owner for a mobile platform
- Experience managing internal use of software platforms & stakeholders
- In-depth knowledge of Agile best practices focused on the Scrum framework
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proficiency with Jira & Confluence is a plus
- Knowledge of claims management or operations processes is a plus