Product Owner

Company: Take Command Health

Position: Product Owner (full-time)

Location: Dallas or Austin, TX

About the Product Owner

The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Scrum team responsible for defining stories and prioritizing the product backlog to streamline the execution of business priorities.
The PO has a significant role in maximizing the value produced by the team and ensuring stories meet the user’s needs and comply with the definition of done. This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the Scrum team, including working with customers, business owners, and other stakeholders.

What will you be doing?

• The PO has the primary responsibility for researching, building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog.
• Reviews and contributes to the program vision, roadmap, and content presentations.
• Involved with story and defect definition, providing the clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing. The entire Agile team, which includes the PO, also work together to determine sprint goals.
• Coordinates dependencies with other POs.
• During the iteration planning meeting, the PO communicates issue details and priorities and ensures the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan.
• Maintain proper flow of user stories. This may happen before the iteration, during iteration planning, or during the iteration.
• Collaborate with their team to detail stories with UI/UX designs, acceptance criteria, and examples in the form of acceptance tests.
• Works with the team to agree on product owner acceptance. This includes validating that the story or defect meets acceptance criteria, that it has the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and that it otherwise complies with its Definition of Done (DoD).
• Reviews and reprioritizes the backlog as part of the prep work for Sprint Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs. During the planning meeting, the PO communicates story detail and priorities and ensures the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan.

Skills and Abilities that Define You

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understand the Agile mindset, the Product mindset and demonstrate Agile principles and values
• Understand the role of the Product Owner in an Agile team
• Able to challenge norms to improve the process and create efficiencies
• Able to hold team members accountable and provide relevant and timely feedback
• Excelled problem solver
• Customer-focused with a deep understanding and empathy for our customers
• Able to facilitate group discussions in an effective and efficient way
• Able to ruthlessly prioritize
• Growth mindset, scalability, and extensibility are front and center
• Strong analytical skills
• Able to pivot and function in ambiguity

How we care for our Take Commanders

At Take Command, we’re excited to build a team and culture that reflects our values. We offer competitive pay, health benefits, and equity options to share with this position. We want you to be an owner along with us in revolutionizing healthcare.

• A generously funded ICHRA for medical, dental, and vision premiums and medical expenses. You get to use our own product and we think that’s so exciting and rare!
• Unlimited personal vacation in addition to regular company holidays.
• 401(k): 30-day eligibility for 2% match that vests immediately!
• Access to executive coaching
• We have a beautiful office conveniently located near The Hill. The kitchen is well stocked (with both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks) and we've designed the space to have lots of different areas to work--lounge on the couch, stand near your colleague at a kiosk desk or hole up in one of our phone rooms!
• Paid parental leave for new parents
• Technology stipend--need a new laptop? We can help!
• Flexible on where you work – we hope to see you around the office a few times a week, but you also have the ability to work from home

About Take Command

Take Command is a start-up on a mission to improve the healthcare system, starting with health insurance. Pragmatically speaking, we help employers reimburse employees for individual insurance instead of offering a traditional one-size-fits-all group plan. We believe this model can empower employees (when they have the right support) to be savvy healthcare consumers and have a transformative impact on the entire healthcare system.

Let’s be honest—health insurance is usually a confusing, frustrating, and even emotional experience for people. We want to fix that with a new model, great technology, and a superior user experience. We have made a great start, but we need your help to fully realize our long-term vision.

More About Us

We recently secured our Series A funding and are thrilled to be able to expand our team. The health insurance industry needs some disruption and despite being a small startup, we’re the recognized industry leaders for the reimbursement model.

We’ve been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, and other publications around Texas and are excited about our growth opportunities.

Take Command knows diversity and inclusion among our teammates is integral to our company’s success and growth. Our vision is to recruit, develop, and retain the best team from a diverse candidate pool.

This has mostly been about us, but we’d love to hear from you--we can’t wait to hear your story!

*Take Command is an equal opportunity employer! We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.