IT Product Owner

Summary

Join Altarum, a leading non-profit organization, as an IT Product Owner in our Public Health Systems department. You will play a crucial role in modernizing public health infrastructure by leading the development of innovative software solutions. Responsibilities include gathering and defining requirements, managing a business analyst team, creating product documentation, and prioritizing work items. You will collaborate with various teams, including software developers, integration engineers, and business analysts, in an Agile environment. This position requires a Bachelor's degree, 3-5 years of product development experience, and strong communication skills. Altarum offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401k, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years working in product development, product management, interoperability, or related experience
• 3+ years of experience leading projects in a collaborative, team-oriented style
• Track record of successfully gathering and defining requirements for software development or interoperability services
• Drive deliberate partnership and innovation work, bringing an integrated approach to execution of high impact initiatives
• Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges
• Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics, problem solving and root cause identification skills
• Demonstrated proficiency with large-scale organization projects, project planning, research, and analytics
• An inquisitive and innovative nature, integrity, willingness to step into new roles, laser-like focus on deadlines, team focused and collaborative mentality, and a commitment to continuously learning and improving
• Excellent written and verbal communication at both the business and technical level
• Experience with any of the following topics: healthcare organizations, public health, medical terminology, clinical workflow processes, electronic health records, interoperability standards, and HL7
• Ability to simplify complex technical ideas and serve as liaison between technical and business teams
• At this time we will only accept candidates who are presently eligible to work in the United States and will not require sponsorship
• Our organization requires that all work, for the duration of your employment, must be completed in the continental U.S. unless required by contract
• Must be able to work during eastern time unless approved by your manager
• Employees working remotely must have a dedicated, ergonomically appropriate workspace free from distractions with a mobile device that allows for productive and efficient conduct of business

Responsibilities

• Lead conversations with clients, stakeholders, and team members to identify, gather, and define requirements for custom software development projects
• Help stakeholders identify a shared product vision
• Create and maintain Product Requirement Document(s) (PRD), Product Roadmap, and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Create the necessary functional and technical documentation, from which the software development team will produce code
• Managing a business analyst team lead with analysts
• Help internal development team execute on the shared product vision by explaining product and feature set functionality, workflows, and/or design expectations
• Organize and distill product requirements from PRD (product requirements document) into Epics and User Stories
• Conduct and/or lead the analysis and documentation of business processes, workflows, and use cases to help define features, user stories, and user journeys throughout the software development lifecycle
• Own the product backlog and organize work items for fulfillment of work as identified and defined by stakeholders and/or business team
• Prioritize tech debt, backlog, change requests and enhancements to ensure customer requirements and deadlines are met
• Communicate with manager all risks associated with product quality, delays in timelines, resource availability, changes in scope, etc
• Lead Sprint Planning meeting with external stakeholders and/or business team to prioritize and organize work for sprints
• Organize prioritized work into sprints for team and work with Scrum Master(s) to set sprint goals for product development according to product roadmap and release schedule
• Assist Scrum Master and Development Leads with communicating product requirements, functionality, feature, and priority to development team during sprint planning with development team
• Present Epic/User Stories selected for sprints during internal sprint planning/kickoff meetings
• Be available to answer product, epic, user story questions from development team (attend daily standups and/or ad hoc technical meetings)
• Ensure Epic creation, User Story creation, product design, wireframes/mockups, prioritization of Epics/User Stories are executed according to product roadmap and defined sprints per release schedule
• Lead and perform product demos to clients, stakeholders, and/or business owners
• Assist with product launch execution, including scheduling training for user groups and overseeing training material development to ensure successful product launch and end user readiness for Go Live (with assist from project management, technical writers, trainers, and/or change management liaisons)
• Oversee and/or lead training of user groups at product launch
• Participate in testing and system validation alongside Quality Assurance team

Preferred Qualifications

• CSBA or CBAP certification a plus
• Technical writing experience a plus
• Experience in maintaining products that are in post-production stage preferred
• Experience in creating RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) during product development to map the business requirements to features to User stories to test cases preferred
• Experience with product development architecture and UI/UX knowledge and principles
• Comfortable working with multiple teams, dispersed and remote
• Accurate and precise attention to detail
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with business analysts, UI/UX team, leadership, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to delegate and oversee tasks across a product team

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental and Optical plans
• Generous Paid Time Off, 8 Company observed holidays plus 3 floating holidays
• Tuition Assistance
• 401K Plan (3% employer contribution plus opportunity for gainsharing)
• Life, AD&D & Disability coverage
• A flexible work environment