SHYFT was founded on a simple yet powerful idea – through powerful analytics find meaningful patterns in complex data that impacts and shapes the future of healthcare. Over the last decade our technology has played a critical part in changing how companies connect and visualize healthcare information. As a leader in this quickly evolving industry, a career at SHYFT offers countless ways to make an impact in a fast-growing company.

Role

The Product Owner (PO) defines stories, prioritizes backlog and approves completed stories in order to achieve product or program goals. The PO acts as a key agile stakeholder and subject matter expert for the product. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Plans and executes features for a product
• Participate in release planning
• Break features down into user stories via story mapping with Dev Team: Defines A's and B's, and propose first release scope proposal to managers
• Author / refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and collaborates with dev team on feature files
• Attend all Agile meetings
• Provide supporting documentation and training to Technical Communications, Professional Services, Customer Care, and Service Delivery on owned feature or feature sets
• Propose and finalize prioritization with other Product team members
• Conduct monthly internal stakeholder meetings
• Prepare and deliver new product awareness seminars
• Ensure clear communication and escalation of production issues

Requirements:

Academic and professional qualifications:

• University degree, preferably in business, information systems, marketing, computer science, or other relevant areas
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Sufficient to present to internal stakeholders
  • Sufficient to present to external customers
• Ability to interact with technical resources and effectively communicate technical information and processes to relevant stakeholders
• Ability to translate business needs to a technical team
• Critical thinking: Analysis and problem-solving skills to address core business problems; Ability to effectively evaluate a problem or situation from all angles to determine the most appropriate solution
• Must have passion for turning data into valuable information and knowledge
• Technical/software development experience a plus
• Results-driven, entrepreneurial, and action-oriented 

Experience:

May require expertise in specific technical and/or industries.

4+ years with BS, 3+ years with MS

Relevant experience with SaaS products and/or Life Sciences strongly preferred

Agile experience strongly preferred

Travel requirements:

Minimal