Senior Product Owner Data Platform (Remote)

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is hiring a Senior Product Owner to support the Enterprise Data Platform team. The Senior Product Owner will define the product vision and oversee the product delivery process. You will play a crucial role in leading the development and implementation of innovative data solutions that will significantly influence our organization’s transformation. You will collaborate with product management and stakeholders to translate product strategy into detailed product vision.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Product Ownership experience and demonstrated experience leading cloud data warehousing products.

This role is located in Eagan, MN and will be hybrid with 2 days a week in the office.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the product strategy, roadmap, and execution for our enterprise data warehouse

• Work closely with key individuals to identify product needs and develop a persuasive value proposition

• Ensure data governance and quality by overseeing the ingestion of multiple data sets into the warehouse

• Work closely with data modelers, engineers, and QA teams to drive successful implementation

• Partner with data analytics teams to understand business needs and enable data-driven decision-making

• Manage interdependencies across multiple domains and drive collaboration among cross-functional teams

Required Skills & Experiences:

• 5+ years of Product Ownership and/or Product Management experience. All relevant experience including work, education, transferable skills, and military experience will be considered.

• Experience with writing user stories and experience implementing Agile methodologies.

• Experience developing short term and long-term roadmaps.

• Work with stakeholder(s) to establish Product Outcomes goals and track progress.

• Able to lead user story mapping, journey mapping and stakeholder canvas exercises.

• Demonstrated presentation skills with leadership and key stakeholders.

• Experience conducting current state vs future state mapping and delivering upon identified product gaps.

• Exceptional analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience interacting confidently with key stakeholders, as a subject matter expert and comfortable with influencing decision-making preferred.

• Exceptional written, oral, presentation and interpersonal communication skills with the proven ability to negotiate expectations between multiple parties highly preferred.

• Experience in program management and process improvement with high level of execution focus preferred.

• Experience as an Agile/JIRA product owner

Nice to Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, business, technical degree or a relevant field

• Experience in data warehouse product ownership, strongly preferred

• Knowledge of cloud data warehousing including AWS, Azure and/or Snowflake

• Experience working in the managed care/healthcare insurance industry

• One of the following certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe PM/PO or LeSS