Product Specialist (Remote)

• Department: Data Delivery Governance
• Schedule: Full time
• Location: Remote

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

• Please note, benefits and benefits eligibility can vary by position, exclusions may apply for some roles (for example: Travel, PRN, Short-Term Option, etc.). Actual compensation offer will vary based upon role, education, experience, location, and qualifications. Connect with your Talent Advisor for additional specifics.

Responsibilities

Ascension is seeking a Product Specialist/Product Owner to join our Data Delivery and Governance team. The successful candidate will be part of the Product Management team, incorporating agile development and operations methodologies and best practices through repeatable agile approach to capabilities assessments and modeling systems in a cost-effective way to explore and document requirements, system characteristics, and capabilities to address reliability, maintainability, quality, supportability, interoperability, and both organizational and technical requirements

Responsibilities

• Create and prioritize the product backlog (features and requirements) that aligns with the product vision and goals defined by Product Director and Product Manager
• Manage and refine backlog based on Product Manager/Business feedback and changing business needs
• Provide sprint backlog management, prioritization, iteration planning and elaboration of the user stories
• Track the progress of user stories and tasks, and ensures completion by the delivery team
• Manage the successful implementation of Product Increment commitments using the Data Product Lifecycle
• Serve as liaison between product team and delivery team and ensure effective communication and alignment
• Forge effective partnerships with horizontal teams to ensure barriers are eliminated to work together to develop products effectively
• Implement continuous Product improvement updates from Data Product Director and Data Product Manager and provide feedback on results
• Implement plans to mitigate risks caused by roadblocks and dependencies
• Inspect the product progress and ensures that the delivery team meets deadlines and goals
• Promote data product culture established by Data Product Director and Data Product Manager across Delivery teams
• Prioritize the release of Product features and create release plan in collaboration with Delivery team
• Provide data product subject matter expertise to Delivery/Implementation team
• Possess excellent knowledge in data processing lifecycle,techniques and methodologies
• Drive the estimation process based on resources, assumptions and risks

Requirements

Education:

• High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate’s degree/Bachelor’s degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.

Additional Preferences

• Experience as Product Owner/Product Manager for 3+ Years
• Skilled in Business analysis , requirement elicitation and documentation.
• Knowledge of SDLC , Agile methodologies, User stories and acceptance criteria
• Ability to identify, communicate and mitigate risks timely, good time Management and prioritization skills
• Jira knowledge is preferred
• Excellent knowledge of Healthcare industry
• Experience in successfully executing Projects as Product Owner
• Current experience writing agile documents and UAT templates strongly preferred.
• Experience in prioritizing and identifying risk is highly desirable.

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Why Join Our Team

When you join Ascension, you join a team of over 134,000 individuals across the country committed to a Mission of serving others and providing compassionate, personalized care to all. Our inclusive culture, continuing education programs, career coaches and benefit offerings are just a few of the resources and tools that team members can use to create a rewarding career path. In fact, Ascension spent nearly $46 million in tuition assistance alone to support associate growth and development. If you are looking for a career where you can grow and make a difference in your community, we invite you to join our team today.

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