Product Owner

About the role

Index Analytics, LLC, is a rapidly growing Baltimore-based small business providing health related consulting services to the federal government. At the center of our company culture is a commitment to instilling a dynamic and employee-friendly place to work. We place a priority on promoting a supportive and collegial team environment and enhancing staff's experience through career development and educational opportunities. Index Analytics is seeking a Product Owner to support Government clients in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. Metro Area. The Product Owner will collaborate with our customers to define product requirements, develop a product understanding, and communicate effectively to both business and technical audiences to deliver solutions. Using Lean-Agile principles and a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), the Product Owner will manage product development and focus on delivering value through minimal viable products.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with stakeholders and the Product Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and maintain a well-defined product roadmap that aligns with the product vision.
• Plan and prioritize epics, features, stories, and bugs.
• Translate business needs and strategic goals into clear requirements and user stories.
• Develop the team roadmap and support the team as needed to deliver on commitments.
• Sponsor of a customer-focused mindset with a deep understanding of user needs.
• Work with development team to implement, accept, and accept user stories as defined.
• Liaison working with other product owners and scrum masters, program leadership, customers, and development teams.
• Demonstrate product functionality to stakeholders.
• Support SAFe scrum ceremony meetings such as Planning Intervals, Iteration Planning & Review, Product Refinement Sessions, Team Sync and Innovation & Planning events.

Qualifications

• US citizen or Authorized to Work and lived in the US for 3 of the last 5 years. Must be able to obtain a U.S. Federal government client badge and pass a government Public Trust.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline required.
• 8+ years of experience, at least 5 years professional experience managing requirements and backlog with agile development teams.
• Knowledge and experience of Agile software development methodology.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose business problems and come up with product roadmaps and timelines for convincing parties for recommended product implementation.
• Must be able to communicate to management, peers and customers effectively and professionally as well as demonstrate sound judgment/reasoning skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with engineering and analytics teams to discuss technical concepts, make tradeoffs to remove roadblocks, and evaluate new ideas.
• Be detail oriented, flexible, proactive, and multi-task to quickly adapt to changing client priorities and respond to ad hoc requests.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication required.
• Expertise with Agile tools like JIRA, Confluence, Slack etc.

Skills

• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Certified SAFe POPM) is a plus.
• Prior experience with Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services or other Govt agencies is a plus.

Schedule

• Remote position, Occasional Travel up to 5% to 10%