Product Owner

The posting, as Delta Dental of New Jersey, Inc. wrote it

General Job Information

We are seeking a Product Owner to join our Transformation Management Team (TMO). The ideal candidate will work closely with business, technical, and vendor partners to ensure the successful delivery of key corporate workstreams. You will drive the identification of business value for feature delivery and manage a prioritized backlog for software development and business process improvements. This role is integral to bridging the needs of stakeholders and ensuring that actionable features are delivered within an agile framework.

As a Product Owner, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve pain points across platforms and through partner integrations. A strong background in healthcare and insurance, along with a passion for improving healthcare systems, is preferred. You must be a strategic thinker, skilled at utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data to inform product roadmaps, and have excellent communication and collaboration skills.

This is a full-time hybrid position, in our Parsippany office Tuesdays and Wednesdays and remote Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Drive value by aligning product goals with overall organizational strategies.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to define product strategy, guide the development process, and drive the product vision.
• Develop well-scoped requirements and prioritize work for engineering teams, dev ops, and data analysts.
• Execute product commitments to consistently deliver meaningful business outcomes.
• Maintain a prioritized product backlog, defining features, value, function, security, and testing needs.
• Champion product goals and support an agile software development lifecycle (SDLC), identifying and documenting Epics, Features, PBIs (Product Backlog Items), and tasks.
• Facilitate communication between business and technical teams to ensure solutions meet both business requirements and technical standards.
• Use agile methodologies (e.g., user stories, acceptance criteria) to drive functional needs.
• Be the voice of the customer, ensuring effective communication between stakeholders and the agile core team.
• Collaborate with sponsors to create a clear product roadmap aligned with both business and technical goals.
• Break down large initiatives into logical Epics, Features, and PBIs for execution based on team capacity.
• Lead the elicitation of business requirements and translate them into user stories and technical requirements.
• Write clear and concise requirements specifications in natural language.
• Regularly review and update the backlog, priorities, and specifications with project stakeholders.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, sprint refinements, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Ensure proper change management practices for maintaining and communicating requirement baselines.

Other Duties

This job description is not exhaustive and
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mission is to promote oral health to the greatest number of people by providing accessible dental benefit programs of the highest quality, service, and value. Through its philanthropic arm, the Delta Dental of New Jersey Foundation awards more than $1M in grants annually to support access to dental care and education for underserved children, seniors, veterans, and those with special needs, as well as funds workforce development programs for dental assisting and dental hygiene across New Jersey and Connecticut.

Benefits
In addition to a great culture, we offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long-term disability, spending accounts, and matching 401k. We value our associates and support everyone with learning and development, recognition programs, active wellness and diversity initiatives, tuition reimbursement, and generous paid time off to recharge – even paid time off to volunteer at causes that you care about.

The benefits set forth in this posting reflect DDNJ’s benefits policies in place at the time of posting, as are made available to other similarly situated employees of DDNJ, although participation is at all times in accordance with and subject to the eligibility and other provisions of such plans and programs. DDNJ reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to prospectively modify or terminate any of its benefits plans or programs at any time and for any reason, to the extent permitted by applicable law. DDNJ complies with all applicable state and federal wage and hour, pay equity and pay transparency laws.

Delta Dental of New Jersey Inc is an equal opportunity employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.