Healthcare Product Owner

Job Title:Healthcare Product Owner
Location:Raleigh,NC
Duration: Long Term

About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.

Job Description:

The Product Owner is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the Product Lifecycle, including discovery, creating value propositions and working closely with engineering, design, and testing to ensure customer pain points and gain points are resolved. The Product Owners' job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals.
• Client and create product value propositions by working with users/customers, development teams, and product designers
• Contribute to building a product strategy
• Optimize the team's learning curve (gain customer insights and feedback) by creating products with speed in mind.
• Understand how to operate within an agile framework.
• Build and maintain product backlogs, be responsible for ensuring customers have high-quality outcomes (by testing and accepting stories), run end-of-sprint demos to obtain feedback from customers, and prioritize work.
• Act as a leader and evangelize their products and always be innovating
• Actively look for ways to improve team value
• Be responsible for the product vision for the PI
• SME for Budgets, General Accounting, Accounts Payable
• Handle Agile Teams Backlog
• Coordinate Product development
• Defines Iterations and Stories
• Ensure stories meet the user's needs and align with the Definition of Done!
• Preparation and Participation in PI Planning
• Work with Architects to understand & support Enabler work
• Participate in key team ceremonies
• Continuously build presentation / demo skills
• Be flexible to help with any work as PO role permits. Some examples include helping team to refine stories, conduct testing, add documentation for release, etc.
• Support the development of the design strategy for new products.
• Identify opportunities for product improvements.
• Manage the product lifecycle and ongoing maintenance
• Ensure product strategy is in alignment with business objectives.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 10 years of proven experience
• Proficiency creating User Story Maps, ability to create user stories containing end-to-end analysis: Outcomes, Outputs, Process, Scenarios, Examples (testing).
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Technically savvy and understands conceptually how products are built.
• Proven experience of managing multiple Agile teams with onshore - offshore model
• Excellent project management skills.
• Critical thinker and good problem-solver.
• Ability to quickly build rapport and keep the team positive and motivated

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/NON-ESSENTIAL SKILLS
• PMPO Agile certification highly preferred
• Experience working with healthcare insurance or healthcare domain a big plus.

Employment Practices:
EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant
VLink is an equal opportunity employer. At VLink, we are committed to embracing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. VLink does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, or discharge, will be decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs.