[Remote] Senior Product Owner - Healthcare Navigation - Virtual

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alight Solutions is seeking a Senior Product Owner to connect business stakeholders and engineering teams in delivering user-centered digital and human-delivered benefits and health navigation products. The role owns product backlog management, translates strategy and stakeholder needs into actionable requirements, and supports Agile delivery and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Leadership to understand product strategy, roadmap priorities, and defined epics
• Translate strategic initiatives and epics into detailed, actionable user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Ensure alignment between roadmap objectives and sprint-level execution
• Own and maintain the product backlog, ensuring items are clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned with business objectives
• Break down epics into well-defined user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
• Continuously refine and reprioritize backlog items based on stakeholder input, customer feedback, and business needs
• Ensure backlog items are ready for development and meet definition of ready standards
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the development team for requirements clarification
• Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Clarify business rules, workflows, and edge cases to ensure high-quality delivery
• Review completed work to validate it meets acceptance criteria and business intent
• Partner with QA to ensure test cases align with requirements
• Gather and document requirements from business stakeholders and delivery teams
• Translate stakeholder needs into actionable user stories and functional requirements
• Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical teams to ensure shared understanding
• Support release planning and coordinate dependencies across teams when needed
• Support enhancements to user-centered digital and human-delivered benefits and health navigation products
• Ensure workflows effectively integrate digital tools with human-supported navigation services
• Help identify usability improvements that enhance member and client experience
• Track and report on sprint progress, product increments, and delivery outcomes
• Incorporate user feedback and data insights into backlog updates
• Contribute to process improvements within the Agile team

Skills

• This role supports services provided to the federal government or federal government contractor and therefore requires US Citizenship
• 5+ years of Product Management or Product Owner experience
• 3+ years in healthcare, benefits, or digital health product development
• Experience building or supporting healthcare navigation, care coordination, or benefits navigation platforms
• Experience delivering user-centered digital products
• Strong experience supporting Agile development teams
• Writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Backlog management and prioritization
• Sprint planning and Agile ceremonies
• Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements wherever possible
• A variety of health coverage options
• Wellbeing and support programs
• Retirement
• Vacation and sick leave
• Maternity, paternity & adoption leave
• Continuing education and training
• Several voluntary benefit options

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