Position Overview

The Product Owner is to work in a highly dynamic environment, engaging and coordinating the activities with internal stakeholders, collaborators, software developers, contractors, and third-party vendors for the flawless development of critical software products and its implementation for a Genomics CLIA laboratory.

This role helps drive the various initiatives and products by collaborating with stakeholders, project managers, and development to ensure requirements/features sets are complete, clear, documented, and translated to the technical team.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide end-user support in response to service requests, as needed.
• Gather and document feature requests/business requirements for all projects, ensuring that requirements gathering discussions and activities have been completed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements, sprint planning, and backlog refinement.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements, epics, and use case stories in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/scrum team.
• Proactively understand the current processes and conceptualize solutions to create efficiencies around them.
• Assist with the planning, scheduling, and tracking of sprints and deliverables using appropriate tools for multiple software development and implementation projects.
• Work closely with offshore and onshore software development teams to manage the progress of the software development projects.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirement documentation, and presentations.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the product and development lifecycle; enforce and redefine, as necessary.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Provide business area expertise to developers during the design, coding, and testing phases of software projects.
• Provide insight to the Quality Assurance (QA) team for system test plans, conditions, test scripts, and test cases.
• Maintain business systems standards by applying Agile methods, tools, and processes as standard practice.
• Create and deliver user documentation and end-user training, if needed.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company's Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Ability to work seated for approximately 50% of a typical working day. Ability to work standing for approximately 50% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 95% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a computer and phone simultaneously.
• Ability to travel 10% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field as outlined in the essential duties.
• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Project Manager, and Project Coordinator.
• 2+ years of direct work experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst in genomics, healthcare, or in a laboratory.
• 3+ years of experience in Agile/Scrum or equivalent software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to bring product/project to successful completion using a process- and people-oriented methodology.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to read communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
• Technically competent with various software programs, such as Jira, Confluence, Visio, and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to work on multiple software development products/projects at the same time.
• React to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.

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