Agile Product Owner, Associate

Job Summary

Under direct supervision, the Agile Product Owner Associate assists in responding to requests from users for the PriorityFirst Value Streams. Having a significant role in maximizing the business value produced by the cross-functional team. The Product Owner will act as the voice of the customer to the team and will prioritize the most important work for the team.

The Product Owner is responsible for organizing the team’s work, including Program Increment planning, building and maintaining the team’s work backlog using JIRA, and participating in the team’s ceremonies such as each inspect and adapt event, or modified systems. This may involve planning, designing and analyzing various programs or software. May help in the consultation with users to identify current operating procedures for single departmental changes, define system requirements, and determine programming and/or application functional requirements. Learns to create technical and procedural designs for new or revised applications, including system specifications and programming guidelines. May assist in the documentation to describe application changes for program development and corrections.

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with their agile team(s) to create objectives for each 10 week program increment and be responsible for meeting those objectives with the team.

• Convey the vision and goals to their team for each new feature prioritized.

• Attend all regularly scheduled ceremonies as part of the teams Agile ceremonies, including but not limited to Iteration planning, Iteration demos, system demos, retrospectives, and program increment planning events.

• Write detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, diagrams, and other documentation to facilitate technical development.

• Responsible for the end-state product/property experiences.

• Rally cross-functional teams around business objectives and goals.

• Grooming the team backlog and prioritizing work efforts.

• Communicate status and progress externally to business and operational leaders

• Actively participates in safety initiatives and risk mitigating measures where appropriate and completes all position and unit safety related competencies and requirements on a timely basis.

Basic Qualifications

• Associates Degree or equivalent education required

• Bachelor's Degree Preferred

• 2 years of relevant experience typically gained through;

  • product ownership experience.
  • using lean and/or agile approaches to develop solutions.
  • Helping lead strategy.
  • building relationships with diverse stakeholders both inside and outside of the company.
  • working with IT team(s) to deliver large, cross domain technology solutions.
  • identifying and tracking key performance indicators (KPI’s) for large projects.
  • working with software development ticketing software like JIRA, Rally, Pivotal Tracker, etc... Preferred

• 2 years of relevant experience in product ownership preferred

  2 years of relevant experience using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) preferred

  2 years of relevant experience formal or informal leadership preferred

Primary Location

SITE - Priority Health - 1231 E Beltline - Grand Rapids

Department Name

PH - Business Systems Leadership

Employment Type

Full time

Shift

Day (United States of America)

Weekly Scheduled Hours

40

Hours of Work

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Days Worked

Monday to Friday

Weekend Frequency

Variable weekends

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Spectrum Health is committed to providing a safe environment for our team members, patients, visitors and community. That is why we require a drug-free workplace and various vaccinations as a requirement for employment.

Spectrum Health grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.

An interconnected, collaborative culture where all are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work, is vital to the health of our organization. As a health system, we advocate for equity as we care for our patients, our communities, and each other. From workshops that develop cultural intelligence, to our inclusion resource groups for people to find community and empowerment at work, we are dedicated to ongoing resources that advance our values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. We invite those that share in our commitment to join our team.

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