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Working closely with Product Management, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Client Success, Implementation, and other business stakeholders, this role ensures product initiatives are clearly defined, thoughtfully prioritized, and successfully delivered.\nWhile Product Managers establish the product vision and roadmap, the Senior Product Owner serves as the bridge between strategy and execution, translating business priorities into actionable work for development teams and bringing clarity, alignment, and disciplined execution across the product lifecycle.\n\nHow You Will Make an Impact\nAs a Senior Product Owner, you will play a critical role in transforming product strategy into high-quality solutions that help healthcare payers and benefits administrators improve operational efficiency and deliver better experiences for the clients and members they serve.\nWorking across cross-functional teams, you will lead delivery across complex product initiatives, bringing structure to ambiguity, anticipating dependencies and risks, and keeping teams aligned on the highest-value work. By balancing customer needs, business priorities, and technical considerations, you will help improve the quality, predictability, and effectiveness of product delivery.\nYour impact will extend beyond your assigned product area. You will mentor other Product Owners, strengthen delivery practices, and help establish scalable, repeatable ways of working across the Product organization, including practical uses of AI that improve the speed and quality of how product work is defined, refined, and delivered.\nTo be considered for this position, all applicants must complete the Wonderlic Select Assessment.\nPlease click the link below to complete the assessment as part of your application process:\nhttps://apply.select.wonderlic.com/XHJJSC/VBA\nThe assessment is designed to help us better understand how your strengths align with the requirements of the role. It includes brief questions related to cognitive ability, motivation, and work preferences. Your responses will be kept confidential and used solely to support fair and consistent hiring decisions.\nWhat are we looking for in this position?\nDemonstrated success as a Product Owner or in a comparable product delivery role, with experience owning complex products, product areas, or interdependent initiatives.\nHealthcare payer industry experience with hands-on knowledge of claims adjudication platforms (CAPS), including claims adjudication, benefits administration, and related payer workflows.\nExperience managing and prioritizing complex Agile backlogs and supporting software delivery across one or more Agile teams.\nStrong ability to translate business needs and stakeholder input into clear requirements, actionable user stories, and acceptance criteria.\nHands-on experience using AI tools to improve personal productivity and product delivery, such as drafting requirements, synthesizing stakeholder input, analyzing information or data, and accelerating backlog refinement.\nExcellent communication, facilitation, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, work independently, and build strong relationships across cross-functional teams.\nWhat do we consider a plus?\nExperience with reinsurance, stop-loss, or other complex healthcare payer workflows.\nExperience defining requirements for AI-enabled product features, including acceptance criteria, quality evaluation, and human review workflows.\nUnderstanding of responsible AI use in healthcare, including data privacy, PHI considerations, and appropriate human oversight.\nExperience mentoring or coaching Product Owners or other product team members.\nFamiliarity with Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, or similar Agile tools.\nWhat will you be doing?\nProduct Ownership & Delivery Leadership\nOwn and prioritize the backlog for a high-complexity product area or multiple interdependent products, keeping delivery teams focused on the highest-value work.\nTranslate product strategy and business priorities into clear, actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and well-defined requirements.\nLead backlog refinement and actively support sprint planning, sprint reviews, and ongoing backlog management across one or more Agile delivery teams.\nMake informed prioritization decisions by balancing customer needs, business objectives, technical complexity, dependencies, and delivery considerations.\nServe as a trusted point of contact for complex, ambiguous, or cross-product requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.\nCross-Functional Collaboration\nPartner with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product enhancements and ensure shared understanding of requirements and desired outcomes.\nCoordinate work across teams to maintain alignment on priorities, timelines, dependencies, and business objectives.\nFacilitate decisions, clarify requirements, and help remove obstacles that could affect successful product delivery.\nCommunicate delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to stakeholders while facilitating timely resolution of issues.\nDelivery Excellence & Continuous Improvement\nDrive backlog quality, delivery readiness, and consistent Agile execution across assigned product areas.\nPartner with Quality Assurance to support testing strategy, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), release readiness, and production validation.\nIdentify delivery risks, competing priorities, and cross-team dependencies early, and drive practical mitigation and resolution before they affect delivery.\nIdentify opportunities to apply AI within Product team workflows and help establish practical, repeatable ways of using AI to improve efficiency and delivery quality.\nStrengthen Product team processes, Agile practices, documentation standards, and scalable delivery methods that improve quality, predictability, and organizational effectiveness.\nLeadership & Team Development\nMentor and coach Product Owners on backlog management, story writing, prioritization, acceptance criteria, and Agile practices.\nShare knowledge and develop reusable standards, playbooks, and practices that promote consistency across the Product organization.\nLead through influence by fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across cross-functional teams.\nServe as a trusted resource for Product Owners and cross-functional partners, helping navigate complex delivery challenges and strengthen organizational capability.\nOther Responsibilities\nPerform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.\nTravel Requirements: Up to 10% travel to client sites\nLocation: Remote\nWhat Success Looks Like\nSuccessful Senior Product Owners at VBA:\nBuild trusted partnerships across cross-functional teams by providing clarity, consistency, and strong delivery leadership.\nLead complex product initiatives with confidence, balancing customer needs, business priorities, technical complexity, dependencies, and delivery timelines.\nTranslate ambiguous business needs into well-defined, actionable work that enables delivery teams to execute efficiently.\nMaintain a healthy, prioritized backlog while proactively identifying and resolving risks, dependencies, and competing priorities before they affect delivery.\nUse AI thoughtfully to increase the speed and quality of product delivery and help establish effective, responsible ways of using AI across Product workflows and help the team do the same.\nInfluence decision-making through thoughtful recommendations, delivery insights, and a strong understanding of technical and implementation considerations.\nCoordinate effectively across complex product areas or multiple Agile teams while maintaining quality, predictability, and transparency throughout the delivery lifecycle.\nMentor and develop Product Owners by sharing knowledge, strengthening product delivery practices, and promoting consistent standards across the organization.\nContinuously improve how 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