Product Owner

Job Title: Product Owner
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:
We are seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented Product Owner with exceptional communication skills to lead requirements discovery for some of our most important Medicare initiatives within the Wellness organization. The ideal candidate bridges business and technology teams, translating domain-specific concepts into clear, actionable requirements for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, architects, SMEs, engineering teams, QA, and cross-functional departments.
• Lead end-to-end requirements discovery, including stakeholder interviews, workflow mapping, gap analysis, and system behavior documentation.
• Translate complex Medicare/Medicaid and healthcare operations processes into well-structured user stories, business use cases, acceptance criteria, workflows, and system requirements.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog; craft and refine stories for development readiness and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, and cross-team coordination to remove roadblocks and ensure timely delivery.
• Evaluate current-state systems, document dependencies, and define future-state capabilities in collaboration with product managers, architects and engineering leads.
• Communicate clearly with senior leadership and present requirements, updates, risks, and recommendations.
• Work proactively with compliance, operations, clinical, and analytics teams to ensure regulatory alignment, especially CMS, Medicare, and Medicaid program rules.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years experience as a Product Owner or Business Systems Analyst in healthcare, Medicare/Medicaid, claims, or eligibility systems preferred.
• Hands-on experience documenting legacy system behavior and defining product requirements.
• Proven go-getter with strong facilitation, leadership, and problem-solving skills; able to work independently in a cross-department environment.