Agile Product Owner Advisor, Individual Dental - Cigna Healthcare - Remote

About this role

Role Summary

The Product Owner is a core member of the empowered product team, partnering closely with the Product Manager, engineering, architecture, design, data, operations, and business stakeholders to translate product strategy into executable work. The Product Owner ensures validated opportunities are clearly defined, appropriately prioritized, and ready for delivery.

Working in close partnership with the Product Manager, the Product Owner maintains alignment between customer needs, product strategy, roadmap objectives, and team execution. The role helps accelerate learning and value delivery by ensuring the backlog reflects the product's priorities, outcomes, and evolving customer insights.

The Product Owner leverages customer knowledge, operational expertise, analytics, and emerging capabilities, including AI-enabled tools where appropriate, to improve backlog quality, delivery effectiveness, and team productivity.

The Product Owner plays a key role in helping the team identify, communicate, and reduce the risks of value, viability, usability, and feasibility by promoting customer understanding, solution clarity, delivery readiness, and cross-functional collaboration.

What You Will Own

## Backlog Strategy and Readiness

• Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog aligned to product goals, roadmap priorities, and customer outcomes.
• Translate product opportunities into features, user stories, defects, enablers, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure work is appropriately sized, refined, and ready for delivery.
• Define clear acceptance criteria that reflect customer needs, business rules, compliance requirements, and operational considerations.
• Maintain traceability between customer problems, product objectives, and delivery work.
• Continuously evaluate backlog priorities based on outcomes, risk, dependencies, feedback, and business needs.

## Solution Definition and Delivery Support

• Collaborate with Product Managers, engineers, architec...