75146BR
Job Description:
Aetna Digital is looking for a Product Owner with health care experience and a passion for educating and engaging consumers. As a Product Owner on our team, you will partner closely with Product Managers to help implement and launch key features and tools on our digital Medicare Shop Buy Enroll platform. You will lead a web development team, working closely with a Scrum Master in an Agile SAFe process. Grow your skill set and knowledge base by working alongside talented and passionate teammates from diverse backgrounds.
Req#:
75146BR
Job Group:
Product
Full or Part Time:
Full Time
Supervisory Responsibilities:
No
Percent of Travel Required:
0 - 10%
Posting Job Title:
Digital Product Owner
Potential Telework Position:
Yes
Additional Locations:
CT-Hartford, MA-Boston, MA-Burlington, NY-New York, RI-Woonsocket
Primary Location (City, State):
MA-Burlington
EEO Statement:
Aetna is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer
Resource Group:
2
Additional Job Information:
Preferred Qualifications
Strong critical thinker who makes balanced, insightful decisions using solutions-based thinking in problem solving, asking probing questions and looking for underlying issues.
Ability to effectively work on teams within a highly collaborative environment.
Strong negotiation, organizational, management, analytical and people skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, individual contributors).
Ability to maintain working relationships with all levels of the organization.
Experienced in collaboration tools (e.g. Airtable, Rally, Microsoft Teams, Confluence, Miro, etc.).
Fundamental Components:
· User Story Development
· Works with product management and stakeholders to align on business value, problem statements, and customer pain points that are strategic priorities for Aetna.
· Provides subject matter expertise – explaining product vision and user stories to the team to ensure requirements are understood and customer value is delivered
· Collaborates with development team to elaborate and define technical learnings into refined and prioritized backlog items that align to Iteration Objectives.
· Responsible for defining and prioritizing stories that will increase velocity and quality of the program
· Responsible for assuring a level of quality has been achieved by validating that the Story meets acceptance criteria and has met acceptance tests. Approves stories as complete.
· Responsible to update product management on Story status to align on delivery expectations
· Team Backlog Ownership/Prioritization
· Responsible for building, prioritizing, monitoring/editing, and maintaining the flow of Team Backlog to ensure the delivery of the customer satisfaction and business value
· Sets the runway for early business value and customer impact by determining sequencing of sprint planning
· Leads the team in identifying dependencies and tradeoffs as well as problem solving risks that may appear in the Team Backlog
· Program Increment Planning
· Partner with Product Management, who is responsible for the Program Backlog, to assist in preparing for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting.
· Identify the potential enablers and spikes for discussion in the Program Increment
· Drafts the team’s objectives and defines features for the Program Increment session
· Collaborates with the team to produce the PI system demo and the Product Owner presents it to program stakeholders.
· Maintain Conceptual and Technical Integrity of Features/Components
· Partner with design function to consider usability testing and end-user feedback to ensure product will address and resolve user pain points
· Provide architecture and development teams sufficiently detailed feedback on user stories and product vision to ensure the team maintains the technical integrity of features / functionality
Background Experience:
-3- 5 years of Product Owner experience
3+ year of experience with technical & communication skills and ability to execute on product vision and direction.
Experience working with engineering and UX teams to build Customer Facing Applications , Ecommerce
Experience with Salesforce is a plus
Experience with Agile/Scrum required. SAFe a plus
Experience in healthcare / Medicare insurance
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Benefits Program:
Benefit eligibility may vary by position.
Candidate Privacy Information:
Aetna takes our candidate's data privacy seriously. At no time will any Aetna recruiter or employee request any financial or personal information (Social Security Number, Credit card information for direct deposit, etc.) from you via e-mail. Any requests for information will be discussed prior and will be conducted through a secure website provided by the recruiter. Should you be asked for such information, please notify us immediately.
Clinical Licensure Required:
N/A