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Position Summary
We’re looking for a Digital Product Owner to join the Platform and Personalization Portfolio, where we’re focused on improving how Aetna members engage with and manage their care.
This role supports the Care Path core train and is focused on server-side product ownership within a SAFe delivery model. Care Paths power personalized, condition-specific experiences that help members navigate complex medical journeys by bringing together relevant information, benefits guidance, care updates, and tailored recommendations in one place.
In this role, you’ll partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, and Engineering to translate product direction and technical solutions into clear, executable work for a server scrum team. You’ll lead team ceremonies, maintain a healthy backlog, prepare work for PI planning and sprint execution, and help ensure delivery is organized, technically sound, and held to a high bar for quality and testing.
Key Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day product ownership for a server scrum team supporting the Care Path core train in a SAFe environment
- Lead agile team ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and PI planning preparation
- Translate business direction provided by Product Managers and technical solutions defined with Architecture into features, user stories, and acceptance criteria ready for engineering execution
- Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog that aligns to portfolio goals, technical dependencies, and delivery timelines
- Partner closely with Engineering and Architecture to clarify requirements, sequence work appropriately, and ensure technical feasibility
- Organize the team around portfolio priorities by helping connect roadmap intent to sprint-level execution
- Support PI planning by driving pre-planning activities, identifying dependencies and timelines, clarifying scope, and surfacing risks early
- Ensure stories are complete and well formed, with strong acceptance criteria, quality expectations, and testing considerations before development begins
- Monitor execution progress, raise blockers quickly, and help drive decisions that keep delivery moving while protecting quality
- Contribute to testing efforts and ensure testing coverage is adequate and shipped product is defect free
- Communicate status, tradeoffs, risks, and readiness clearly across Product, Engineering, and partner teams
- Contribute to continuous improvement in team ways of working, delivery predictability, and backlog readiness
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, or related digital product delivery role
- 5+ years of experience working in Agile and/or SAFe environments and leading cross-functional team ceremonies
- 5+ years of experience translating business and technical direction into detailed features, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- 5+ years of experience with commitment to quality, test readiness, and disciplined execution
- 5+ years of experience partnering closely with Architecture and Engineering teams to prepare work for development
- 3+ years of experience supporting server-side or backend engineering teams
- 3+ years of experience with technical understanding, including experience working with APIs, backend systems, and technical architecture
- 5+ years of experience partnering closely with Architecture and Engineering teams to prepare work for development
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in large, matrixed organizations, with the ability to influence without direct authority
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to work in a self-directed manner across multiple priorities
- Experience supporting digital healthcare products or other complex, highly integrated digital platforms
- Experience preparing teams for PI planning and coordinating dependencies across multiple teams
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Miro, and related delivery or planning tools
- Experience working closely with engineering teams to improve test coverage and release readiness
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$83,430.00 - $203,940.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner role
- 5+ years of experience working in Agile and/or SAFe environments
- 5+ years of experience translating business and technical direction into user stories
- 5+ years of experience with commitment to quality, test readiness
- 5+ years of experience partnering closely with Architecture and Engineering teams
- 3+ years of experience supporting server-side or backend engineering teams
- 3+ years with technical understanding of APIs and backend systems
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
CVS Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CVS Health and has not been reviewed or approved by CVS Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive for benefits-eligible colleagues, including medical, dental, and vision with free preventive care and access to virtual care and select no-cost MinuteClinic services. Mental health support is also highlighted with no-cost confidential counseling sessions per issue.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after meeting service and hours requirements. Ownership programs are also offered through an employee stock purchase plan with a stated purchase discount.
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Pay Growth & Progression — A companywide minimum wage floor establishes a baseline that is framed as a positive starting point in some roles and markets. Unionized or high-cost areas are described as having clearer wage scales and step-ups that can materially lift pay over time.
CVS Health Insights
What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
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