Description & Requirements

The Health TX Enrollment Broker project is now accepting applications for a Specialist - Digital Product Owner. The role is an entry-level Product Owner role within the digital transformation space. The Specialist - Digital Product Owner is responsible for understanding the needs of Digital Solution's customers, the capabilities of the product, and how the two intersect to deliver value. This role is responsible for capturing customer requirements and priorities and presenting them to a software delivery team for commitment. In this capacity, this role serves as the "customer proxy" to ensure the product delivered meets the customers' needs. This role reports to a Manager Product Owner. The ideal candidate is a team player who is self-sufficient and confident in their prestation skills. This is a great position that offers opportunity for growth, learning, and upskilling as each day is different from the other.

This is a full time, salaried position with a fully remote working arrangement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Conduct design sessions with customers to identify requirements.
- Partner with customers to identify a minimum viable product, which represents the smallest product increment that still delivers value, and prioritize remaining product backlog items for incremental release.
- Create a product backlog that represents customer requirements and priorities, which includes defining product epics and writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Groom user stories with the software delivery team to ensure they are consumable for delivery.
- Present product backlog items for commitment in sprint planning meetings.
- Attend daily standups with the delivery team and provide direction to support the delivery team's ability to meet sprint commitments.
- Receive product demonstrations from the delivery team and accept user stories as done.
- Provide product demonstrations to the customer.
- Conducts UAT, supports release activities, and conducts postproduction validation.
- Makes decisions; communicates and escalates to Product Management appropriately.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 3+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Knowledge of agile software delivery practices.

Additional Requirements

- Bachelor's degree or 2-4 years related experience required
- Knowledge of agile software delivery practices
- Preferred Residency in Texas
- Must be able to work Core Project hours (8 AM - 5 PM) Central
- No Part-time, only Full-time positions available

Internal Candidate Requirements

- No current Written Warnings or Final Written
- Preferred Texas Enrollment Broker (EB) project experience

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Minimum Salary

$65,200.00

Maximum Salary

$101,100.00

As a leading strategic partner to governments across the globe, Maximus helps improve the delivery of public services amid complex technology, health, economic, environmental, and social challenges. With a deep understanding of program service delivery, acute insights that achieve operational excellence, and an extensive awareness of the needs of the people being served, our employees advance the critical missions of our partners. Maximus delivers innovative business process management, impactful consulting services, and technology solutions that provide improved outcomes for the public and higher levels of productivity and efficiency of government-sponsored programs.