01Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with the Agile Product Manager to support product vision, roadmap, and outcomes aligned with business strategy and customer needs.
Ensure delivery progress and milestones are visible to keep roadmaps relevant and timely.
Act as the voice of the customer for the Scrum Team, ensuring backlog priorities reflect customer value.
Translate release train backlog priorities into clear, value-focused team backlog priorities.
Support Agile Product Manager in the refinement of features.
Lead the decomposition of features into user stories and ensure ongoing refinement with developers, testers, and business subject matter experts.
Own Jira backlog quality and approve user stories before moving to Done/Accepted.
Lead PI planning cycles and objectives to enable predictable execution at team level.
Collaborate with Scrum Master, QA, and UAT teams to track delivery, quality, and predictability metrics.
Ensure analytics are in place to monitor utilization, customer experience, and delivery performance.
Share actionable insights with the Agile Product Manager to drive product evolution and improvement.
Foster a growth mindset and a psychologically safe team culture.
Demonstrate an Agile mindset focused on learning, feedback, and value validation.
Partner with stakeholders to maintain alignment and manage dependencies.
Drive continuous improvement through data-informed decision making.
Collaborate with Customer Experience and UX/UI design teams to ensure the customer voice is embedded at all stages of the product delivery cycle.
Required Competencies
Strong business and delivery acumen
Customer-centric mindset and empathy
Ability to translate strategy into executable outcomes
Ownership, accountability, and attention to quality
Collaboration and stakeholder management skills
Continuous improvement and data-driven mindset
Required Skills and Experience
Bachelors Degree required
Strong English language skills required
Experience working in JIRA tool or an equivalent
Knowledge of agile methodology required
Experience within healthcare preferred
Both technically deep and business savvy enough to interface with cross-functional partners
Proven ability to develop solid 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
Agile Certification: SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (pre or post hire)
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