Product Owner - Agile Scrum Team Lead

Product Owner

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent Health has a bold mission to change the health of the nation by changing the way health care is delivered. Our pursuit of this mission is the driving force that brings us to work each day. We believe in embracing new ideas, challenging ourselves and failing forward. We respect and celebrate individual talents and team wins. We have fun while working hard and Evolenteers often make a difference working in everything from scrubs to jeans.

Are we growing? Absolutely and Globally. In 2021 we grew our teams by almost 50% and continue to grow even more in 2022. Are we recognized as a company you are supported by for your career and growth, and a great place to work? Definitely. Evolent Health International (Pune, India) has been certified as “Great Places to Work” in 2021. In 2020 and 2021 Evolent in the U.S. was both named Best Company for Women to Advance list by Parity.org and earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI). This index is the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

We recognize employees that live our values, give back to our communities each year, and are champions for bringing our whole selves to work each day. If you’re looking for a place where your work can be personally and professionally rewarding, don’t just join a company with a mission. Join a mission with a company behind it.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Position summary

Evolent is looking for bright and energetic individuals to be a Product Owner

Essential functions

• Take lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner

• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements

• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product

• Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities

• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy

• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories

• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI

• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new   functionalities

• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
  Follow our competitors and the industry

• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

Key competencies/skill/success factors:

• Should have strong understanding of one or more US Healthcare Data aspects like Member Enrollment and eligibility Data, Provider Data

• Should have good understanding of Data

• Proactive in nature and Knowledge Management, maintain a repository of best practices & Create Reusable Components.

• Excellent client interaction, proactive, communication, strong interpersonal, analytical skills, and very good learning capabilities.

• Work with the business to identify, analyze, document the functional and nonfunctional requirements, recommending business priorities, and advising business on options, risks, and solutions.

• Should be able to work to review operational and support issues along with performing defect identification and triaging, along with help in issue prioritization and coordinating integration testing.

• Should have good analytical skills for performance effective assessment of the issue along with coordination and education of operational staff for ongoing maintenance.

• Experience in project management to help drive tasks and issues from initiation till closure. Working across multiple teams and help coordinate.

• Respond to client data inquiries and concerns; addressing issues promptly

• Prepare presentations, reports, tables, graphs, and observations to present clinical/consult/claims data or result

Qualification and Experience:

Required

Post graduation

5-8 yrs of relevant experience

Big plus

Basic SQL knowledge

To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.

Mandatory Requirements:

Employees must have a high-speed broadband internet connection with a minimum speed of 50 Mbps and the ability to set up a wired connection to their home network to ensure effective remote work. These requirements may be updated as needed by the business.

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Evolent Health is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.