Agile Product Owner IV
Agile Product Owner IV
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$ 119900 - 203800
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Workforce Classification:
HybridJoin Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve Peoples Lives
Our purpose to improve customers lives by making healthcare work better is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.
To better serve our customers we are fostering a culture that emphasizes employee growth collaborative innovation and inspired leadership. We are dedicated to creating an environment where employees can excel and where top talent is attracted retained and thrives. As a testament to these efforts Premera has been recognized on the 2025 Americas Dream Employers list. Newsweek honored Premera as one of Americas Greatest Workplaces Americas Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion and Americas Greatest Workplaces For Mental Well-Being Forbes ranked Premera among Americas Best Midsize Employers for the fourth time.
Learn how Premera supports our members customers and the communities that we serve through our Healthsource blog: an Agile Product Owner IV you will be responsible for planning and guiding work for the Customer Communications Management (CCM) team in the Customer Service Capability Product Group. In partnership with Product Managers Program Managers and engineering teams you will guide the work to maintain and enhance our customer communications services. This role will focus specifically on CCM which touches every member and provider and offers a lot of responsibility autonomy and ownership. This position is ideal for an individual with significant Product Owner experience who seeks to lead initiatives and make a substantial contribution.
What youll do:
Represent the customers perspective to the Agile team. Understand and convey business and product strategies. Bridge communication between business partners vendors and users. Demonstrate extensive domain expertise. Liaise with stakeholders by leading analysis for new products. Lead backlog refinement sessions to define the work scope.
Collaborate with the Manager Product Management and other Product Owners to develop a feature and user story roadmap. Work with business and IT partners and Agile teams to define outcomes and value. Write and refine features and user stories with acceptance criteria. Participate in solution design and development with the Agile team. Coordinate solutions priorities and dependencies with other Product Owners. Supervise user acceptance testing. Approve user stories enablers and PBIs. Facilitate demos and communicate release content and value to stakeholders. Prioritize and resolve issues by considering pros/cons risks and dependencies.
Leverage data to guide product strategy.
May lead or guide user acceptance testing with end users.
Build own maintain prioritize optimize and sequence the integrated team (PBI) backlog in collaboration with engineers and other stakeholders. Prioritize backlog of user stories in alignment with product roadmap. Collaborate with the Agile team on a regular cadence to refine the backlog. Collaborate with the Agile team to identify dependencies on other teams. Coordinate dependencies with other Product Owners in preparation for Program Increment planning. Provide guidance in assessing product opportunities and risks and utilize KPIs and metrics to optimize product.
Identify ways to improve processes and accelerate value for our customers. Identify ways to continually improve quality standards. Identify opportunities to improve efficiency. Mentor more junior staff within the team.
What youll bring:
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science or equivalent.
Eight (8) years of business systems analysis experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in a software development environment with Agile development practices including Scrum and SAFe. Knowledge of Agile delivery models.
Previous QA experience
Experience using SQL for data analysis.
Knowledge of healthcare or health insurance industry.
Knowledge of product development tools including Azure DevOps Services Visual Studio Confluence and Product Plan.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
Customer-focused with demonstrated ability to understand and prioritize work according to the strategic impact/value and achieve concreate results.
Demonstrates accountability and delivering results within a self-organized team environment.
Detailed understanding of business and product strategies within aligned domain and clearly explains them to the Agile team.
A trusted advisor for both business and IT stakeholders; provides a sustainable high level of stakeholder partnership.
Aligns to established quality expectations and incorporates functional and non-functional quality measures into requirements; ability to define and lead user acceptance testing process.
Promotes teamwork; works well as a member of a team as well as successfully facilitate collaboration within the Agile team.
Experience defining software requirements for moderately complex products/solutions; working knowledge of analytical tools relational databases and software applications; proven ability to analyze moderately complex data and business processes.
Ability to communicate effectively and professionally both orally and in writing to a wide range of audiences including business and IT leadership both inside and outside the department.
Strong problem solving and root cause analysis skills demonstrated ability to proactively prevent problems from occurring and work issues to resolution.
Strong facilitation skills; ability to facilitate medium to large group discussions to achieve defined outcomes; leverage a variety of facilitation techniques depending on the specific needs of the audience and topic.
Comfortable with change or uncertainty. Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous moderately complex requirements or scenarios.
Reinforces and helps build a positive Agile team culture and addresses issues that disrupt the team.
Premera total rewards
Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support resources and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks theyre a reflection of our commitment to your health and well-being. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical financial emotional and community benefits including:
Medical vision and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
Voluntary benefit offerings including pet insurance for paw parents.
Life and disability insurance.
Retirement programs including a 401K employer match and believe it or not a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.
Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents including counseling services stress management programs and mindfulness programs just to name a few.
Generous paid time off to reenergize.
Looking for continuing education We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries team accomplishments and more.
For our hybrid employees our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources networking opportunities and team engagement.
Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.
Free convenient on-site parking.
Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.
Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events coffee connects disaster preparedness fairs and more.
Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.
Need a brain break Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.
Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action:
Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability marital status veteran status gender or gender identity sexual orientation genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera please contact Premera Human Resources via email at or via phone at .
The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including but not limited to a candidates geographic location market conditions and specific skills and experience.
The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.
National Plus Salary Range:
$119900.00 - $203800.00*National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.
Were happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. Were committed to creating an environment where all employees are celebrated for their unique skills and contributions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
