Product Owner

Position: Product Owner Location: 100% Remote Schedule: Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM Visa: USC Only Assessment: Must complete the Glider “Product Owner” Assessment Role Overview:The Product Owner will play a business-critical role in expanding and optimizing the health product portfolio across Physical Health, Wellness, and Social Health. The role will support products and solutions such as weight management, fertility and family building, oncology care, CKD, COPD, Diabetes, and Caregiver support.The Product Owner will serve as a strategic leader, driving initial implementation and ongoing optimization of the health product portfolio while helping achieve improved patient outcomes and cost savings.

Key Responsibilities

Support execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of team features and components.Collaborate with Solution Architects, Business Architects, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to break down features into user stories.Bridge product and development teams by translating product vision into business and functional requirements.Maintain a well-groomed and prioritized backlog supporting at least 3+ Sprints.Define and enforce Definition of Ready and Definition of Done while maintaining overall backlog health.Recommend resolution paths to leadership when backlog health becomes insufficient.Review and accept completed stories, ensuring they meet defined acceptance criteria and have been developed and tested appropriately.Collaborate with Product Management and business stakeholders on product vision, strategy, roadmap, and priorities.Represent the product in team-level and governance meetings and provide status updates to leadership.Partner with Product Managers to understand the business problems and outcomes the product is intended to solve.Work with external vendors and align roadmaps, scope, and delivery execution.Serve as a servant leader within cross-functional Agile teams and work with Agile program and team metrics.Communicate product release content, capabilities, and expected behavior to stakeholders.Develop and maintain product delivery roadmaps and contribute to high-level release planning.Continuously reprioritize work based on stakeholder feedback, new information, and expected business outcomes.Write clearly defined user stories for new features, issues, and future enhancements.Partner with teams to define improvement stories that enhance product and program quality.Review, update, and sign off on test scripts for in-track and regression testing to ensure complete user-story coverage.Required Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Healthcare, Information Management, or a closely related field.3+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Strategic Consulting, or Design Thinking.3+ years of experience in Product Development & Management or Project/Program Management.3+ years of experience working with external clients and fostering positive relationships and outcomes.Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization.Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications.Ability to size work for estimation and planning.Experience prioritizing stories, resources, teams, and products.Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

Agile certification from a recognized organization such as Scrum.org, SAFe, or Scrum Alliance.Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to distill research and apply findings to relevant solutions.Experience serving as Product Owner for multiple teams and/or products.