Agile Product Owner - International Organisation Health at Cigna

Key Responsibilities:


Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure alignment between business strategy and product development efforts
Collaborates with Product Manager and Portfolio Managers to ensure backlogs align to business and product roadmaps
Collaborates with system architecture experts and other teams to provide consultancy on their product functionality.
Has final decision-making authority on acceptance criteria for product functions
Maintains and refines the inflow of work to the team (product backlog)
​Responsible for decomposing features into user stories and acceptance criteria
Ensures stories clearly communicate customer/stakeholder needs to the Scrum team; work with team to clarify stories as necessary
Sets and communicates the team's scope for the current iteration
Define business objectives and assesses business value to prioritizes all stories and ensure work focuses on those with maximum value and aligns with strategy
Collaborate with customers and relevant teams to ensure the customer voice is embedded at all stages of the product delivery cycle
Partners with the Product Managers by contributing to story mapping and brainstorming activities to prepare and decompose work for teams
Ensures the outcome and value is clearly defined and communicated to support technical assessments of solutions with the development team
Works closely with cross-functional teams to validate product hypotheses and make data-informed decisions
Must be aware of other work being completed within the Release Train so that they can help teams proactively manage risks and dependencies and propose optimal solutions
Understands and supports inter-team dependencies and escalates prioritization issues when necessary
Clearly communicates release timing and delivery dates to Product Management, Portfolio Leads and Key Stakeholders


Required skills and experience:


Bachelor's Degree required
Strong English language skills required
Experience working in JIRA tool or an equivalent (preferred)
Experience with agile methodology and agile delivery experience required
Work experience in agile cross-functional environments with high technical ability is required
Experience within healthcare preferred
Experience working with technology integrations, financial services, databases and backend technologies is preferred
Both technically deep and business savvy enough to interface with cross-functional partners
Proven ability to develop strong working relationships and establish a high level of credibility across functional and lines of business
High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
Demonstrates strong decision-making skills and problem-solving techniques
Demonstrates ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team in a fast paced and changing environment
Strong adaptive capability; ability to approach problems pragmatically and creatively in the phase of changing circumstances, resources and direction
Some degree of flexibility to work with International Health stakeholders across multiple regions and time zones