Flexion is seeking a Remote Product Owner to join our Flexion team to support a large agile Health IT program in the Maryland/Virginia/Washington DC area. The team’s mission is to improve the program in the areas of security, reliability, and efficiency.

WHY YOU WANT TO WORK FOR FLEXION:

At Flexion (an agile software company that’s been delivering excellence for over 24 years), our company culture is built on autonomy, trust, and transparency. We empower teams to remain autonomous and self-directed by hiring people who can solve complex problems by functioning collaboratively—this means lending a hand and flexing your multi-skilled muscles (business application software engineering, database engineering, DevOps, security engineering, etc.) as needed. Every member within a cross-functional team is a leader who takes responsibility for the entire team’s success, which mirrors the company’s overall flat structure.

WHAT THE JOB LOOKS LIKE:

In this role, you must possess excellent communication skills and technical knowledge with a strong aptitude for appreciating the focus, scope, and impact of your work in a much wider and forward-looking software landscape. You should also be able to demonstrate a history of technical product leadership, relationship building, excellent communication, and a positive attitude.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable for product vision, direction, and the product backlog as well as ensuring that stories are ready for development
• Interface with stakeholders, garnering client trust while also seeking client input in order to build consensus
• Be an objective listener
• Ensure that the product backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all stakeholders
• Managing product backlog and prioritizing the items in the Product Backlog
• Make product decisions
• Interface with the team, answering questions, communicating decisions, and empathize with team constraints
• Creates compelling product vision, develops and executes product roadmap with a focus on measurable outcomes, tracks and regularly shares progress with stakeholders and team
• Collaborates with the team and stakeholders to employ Agile methods, processes, tools, and metrics to deliver value which includes ongoing product backlog refinement, product roadmap, and release planning
• Engages and collaborates with the team to create and manage Agile artifacts (e.g. Product Roadmap, Backlog, Release Plan) and information needed for prioritization decision-making and regularly assess features and costs to determine whether and when to proceed. Responsible for accepting product deliverables

DESIRED REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong DevOps experience and understanding.
• Strategic thinker, analytical and outcome-driven
• A servant leadership attitude and skills to gain credibility, garner respect, and balance business priorities and opposing viewpoints, while adhering to Agile concepts and principles. Experience with enabling teams to self-organize to resolve problems efficiently and effectively
• Working knowledge of Agile practices. Understands the fundamentals of iterative development, incremental delivery, backlog management, burn down metrics, velocity, and story definition
• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills to connect, engage, and influence the team and stakeholders
• Advocate for the team and negotiate with business/corporate areas
• Solid analytical skills, creative problem-solving skills, and high attention to detail
• Ability to work with minimal direction, flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and schedules, handle multiple issues simultaneously, and to manage stressful situations.
• Basic knowledge of technical concepts, architectural principles to drive scalable solutions.
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) knowledge and experience
• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree

EXPECTATIONS:

• Speak openly and honestly about problems and proposed solutions
• Apply an attitude of servant leadership in a technical leadership role
• Welcome and handle changing requirements and priorities with little or no warning
• Collaborate in small groups online about 50% of the time
• Encourage simple and minimal solutions that keep options open
• Expect and vocally advocate for quality first
• Learn new practices and techniques as the situation demands
• Ensure the teams develop demonstrable software every week or two
• Do what needs to be done to deliver the product or project
• Relentlessly improve yourself, your team, and your processes

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

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