Product Owner

What you’ll do  

In a few words… Abarca is igniting a revolution in healthcare.  We built our company on the belief that with smarter technology we are redefining pharmacy benefits, but this is just the beginning… 

Product Owners on our team leverage a keen attention to detail and sharp observational skills to understand our product and services as well as their histories and upcoming innovations. In this role, you’ll work through analysis of the business requirements and software development life cycle to prepare all things product related! We’ll also need you to help identify improvements for operating procedures, evaluate existing or propose road maps and prepare specifications while collaborating with clients, internal operations, and technology teams.  

The fundamentals for the job… 

• Be the subject matter expert for one to two product domains within Abarca.
• Create, update, enhance, or refine business requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria in an agile framework.
• Assist and partner with other Product Owners and Product Managers in solving business needs through collaborative product feature enhancements.
• Gather requirements with internal clients and technology teams to solve complex business needs and translate ideas into requirements.
• Work collaboratively with business partners, SMEs, Developers, and Testers to ensure a shared understanding of business requirements.
• Determine feasibility of business requirements and recommend changes to support business needs and processes.  
• Assist in analyzing business solution options by evaluating current system processes and identifying possible solution options for new functionality or modifications to existing functionality.
• Provide support of your product domain in research, analysis and troubleshooting related to your products.
• Provide input and engage in setting priorities to define a product roadmap working with other product owners and product managers.
• Understand the products that you own and how they interact upstream and downstream within the product ecosystem.
• Ensure that system solution options are thoroughly researched, analyzed, and documented.
• Develops acceptance criteria and leads User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts to ensure the product meets the needs of the business.  
• Provide support to Applications Development through participation in Design Reviews.
• Project estimates and resource plans for systems solutions. 

What we expect of you 

The bold requirements…  

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a related area (In lieu of a degree, equivalent relevant work experience may be considered.)
• 3+ years of experience as a product owner, product analyst or in roles associated and/or collaborating with product management within an Agile SDLC environment
• Experience in client facing tasks, facilitating meetings, and setting priorities.
• Experience leveraging and utilize SQL, business intelligence and associated data analysis tools.
• Experience in developing roadmaps, managing product questions, vendor management, leading meetings and, developing technical product documentation.
• Experience collaborating an agile and scrum environment and with associated SDLC toolsets (example: DevOps, Jira, etc.). 
• Experience developing and documenting acceptance criteria and user stories.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Hands-on experience partnering with engineering teams to drive project outcomes.
• We are proud to offer a flexible hybrid work model which will require certain on-site workdays (Puerto Rico Location Only)
• This position requires availability to work in a specified time zone or working schedule, accommodating the business needs of our clients and team members.
• This position may require availability for on-call hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, to promptly address emergent issues or provide necessary support as dictated by operational demands (if applicable). 

Nice to haves…  

• Scrum Certified Product Owner or Product Strategy Product Owner certification preferred.
• Experience with project management and/or process improvement.  
• Experience in market research and analysis as well as sales support within requests for proposal. 
• Experience with business intelligence solutions to create ad-hoc queries & reports to support analysis.
• Experience with Healthcare, Pharmacy, and Pharmacy Benefit industries, Medicare Part D, and CMS regulations, NCPDPD standards and/or HIMSS.
• Experience UX and/or Human Centered Design.  

Physical requirements… 

• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.
• Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing. 

At Abarca we value and celebrate diversity. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are guiding principles of Abarca and ensure Abarca’s workforce reflects the communities it serves.  We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. 

Abarca Health LLC is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. “Abarca Health LLC does not sponsor employment visas at this time” 

The above description is not intended to limit the scope of the job or to exclude other duties not mentioned. It is not a final set of specifications for the position. It’s simply meant to give readers an idea of what the role entails. 

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