Product Owner

About this role

## Company :

Highmark Health

## Job Description :

JOB SUMMARY

This job is accountable for the development and product management of a service and or analytic product within the organization with a unique focus on the applicable business unit.  The incumbent is the primary point of contact to agile, large cross-functional teams on behalf of the customer to identify the product requirements for development. The incumbent is accountable for the product's ability to produce business value by focusing on the translation of strategy to agile execution.  Oversees priority, scope and the validation of work that is required in order to deliver a quality product. Will need a deep understanding of the product, the market, business strategy and operating model.  Accountable for the alignment with product management leadership, direct stakeholder involvement and support of the primary business objectives for the organization.  

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contributes to streamlining the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team.
• Manages, understands and supports prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work by collaborating with stakeholders such as: Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager and others to breakdown features into user stories. Act as a bridge to connect the product and development teams by translating the product manager's vision into business and functional requirements for the teams.  This will allow the teams to work with a heavy focus on user outcomes.  Key player in solution estimation.
• Maintain a well groomed and prioritized backlog sufficient to support optimal team allocation for multiple (3+) Sprints including acceptance of stories and enforcing definition of ready and definition of done (backlog health).  Recommend resolution paths to domain leadership when/if backlog health becomes insufficient.
• Responsible for the acceptan...