Delta Dental of Michigan · 6 hours ago
Senior Product Owner
Okemos, MI
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expDelta Dental of Michigan is one of the largest dental plan administrators in the country, dedicated to improving oral health through benefit plans and community support. The Senior Product Owner serves as a liaison between business and application development teams, ensuring alignment on product features and priorities while managing budgets and resources.
Health Care
Responsibilities
Partners with key business owners, customers, account relationship managers, and other stakeholders in order to identify user/customer needs and to develop comprehensive product vision, which translates into specific feature strategies and integrated product roadmaps
Conducts competitive product research to establish future product capabilities
Partners with the application development team in order to relay user experiences and necessary product features, including participating in daily standup meetings
Acts as key participant in the portfolio, product, release, schedule of value, and sprint planning activities
Manages budgets and resources that impact the product, and reviews resource reports to ensure product and related projects stay within budget
Acts as a resource, subject matter expert, and single point of contact for the business, application development, and implementation and support teams, to identify priorities that impact go-live timelines and features critical to customer success
Reviews new product feature requests and current backlogs and prioritizes work
Leads in writing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria, testing and demonstrating new product features and changes, and training users/customers
Identifies opportunities for improvement and recommends action plans to department management
Participates in the development of departmental strategies, goals, and objectives
Coaches and mentors Product Owners
Perform other related assigned duties as necessary to complete the Primary Job Responsibilities as described above
Qualification
Required
Position requires a bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, finance, mathematics, or a related field
Seven years of experience analyzing, documenting, maintaining, organizing, recommending, supporting, testing, or troubleshooting business needs, system requirements, or process workflows
Five years of information technology experience leading teams and/or projects requiring customized software solutions
Advanced knowledge of the insurance industry and the organization's products, services, markets, customers, competitors, opportunities, and challenges
Advanced knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications
Knowledge of agile methodology/practices
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong analytical skills
Strong interpersonal skills
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines
Ability to solve complex problems using independent judgment
Position may require occasional travel and working outside of regular business hours in order to support system maintenance
Preferred
Experience in an insurance environment and leading projects preferred
Will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience
Company
Delta Dental of Michigan
Delta Dental of Michigan, with its affiliates in Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (20)
2024 (20)
2023 (15)
2022 (23)
2021 (18)
2020 (14)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Jed Jacobson
Chief Science Officer/Senior Vice President
Andrew Woodard
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
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