Description
Who We Are - Motivated by Purpose. Powered by Clinical Expertise.
Founded in 1983, we’re a clinically-driven, tech-enabled utilization management company offering expert clinical reviews, regulatory guidance, and actionable insights to healthcare organizations.
Excellence starts with our people.
WE OFFER
- A competitive compensation package.
- Benefits include healthcare, vision and dental insurance, a generous 401k match, paid vacation, personal time, and holidays.
- Growth and training opportunities.
- An award-winning remote work environment
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Product Owner sits within the Product Organization and is accountable for product strategy, business requirements, roadmap planning, prioritization, stakeholder engagement, business readiness, and value delivery throughout the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC). This role serves as the bridge between business stakeholders and the Engineering, Architecture, and QA organizations, ensuring solutions are clearly defined, aligned to business objectives, and deliver measurable value. The Product Owner owns the requirements and prioritization decisions within their portfolio while collaborating closely with Architecture on technical feasibility, Engineering on delivery, and QA on release readiness.
Roles:
- Own product strategy, roadmap, requirements, UI design direction, business process definition, reporting and data requirements, and prioritization for an assigned portfolio of operations and utilization review tools
- Serve as the accountable business owner for user acceptance testing, business readiness, and adoption of delivered solutions
- Act as the primary point of consultation with the Architecture, Engineering, and QA organizations throughout the PDLC, per MRIoA's defined RACI operating model
Major Responsibilities or Assigned Duties:
- Monitor progress against roadmap commitments and adjust priorities as business needs change
Demand Intake and Portfolio Management:
- Manage the intake process for new requests and enhancements, assessing business value, complexity, urgency, and dependencies
- Facilitate prioritization discussions with stakeholders and document decisions regarding scope, priorities, and funding
- Maintain visibility into active, pending, and future initiatives, and ensure alignment between business demand and available delivery capacity
Business Requirements Management:
- Lead requirements gathering sessions, discovery workshops, and business process reviews with stakeholders • Document current-state and future-state business processes, and define functional, UI, data, reporting, integration, and non-functional requirements in sufficient detail for development to begin without ambiguity
- Ensure requirements are complete, testable, and approved prior to development, and maintain traceability between requirements, user stories, testing, and delivered functionality
- Manage changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle
Backlog and User Story Management:
- Create and maintain product backlogs, and define epics, features, and user stories that meet MRIoA's user story standards (business objective, user role, functional description, acceptance criteria, UI and data requirements, dependencies, assumptions, and success criteria)
- Prioritize backlog items based on business value, and participate in backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions with Engineering
- Clarify requirements throughout development and testing activities
Timeline and Release Planning:
- Define business priorities and delivery expectations, and collaborate with Engineering and QA on estimates and delivery plans
- Establish milestone and release targets, moni