The vision of Colorado Access is to have healthy communities transformed by the care that people want at a cost we can all afford. Our mission is to partner with communities and empower people through access to quality, affordable care.
Why should you consider a career with Colorado Access?
We are a Colorado-based company, working to improve the health of our state. We care for individuals, families, and children who receive health care under Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) and Health First Colorado (Colorado’s Medicaid Program). Our focus is driving improvements in quality, member experience, outcomes, and cost. We are a mission-driven organization whose foundation is built by our vision, supported by our values and pillared by diversity, equity and inclusion.
1. Find work/life balance: We offer PTO, floating holidays, nine company paid holidays, a hybrid work environment, an Employee Assistance Program and a 401K.
2. Be a part of something bigger and make an impact: We serve the underserved and most vulnerable populations in our community through access to quality and affordable health care. No matter what you do for Colorado Access, you are impacting our community and making a difference.
3. Sharpen your skills, learn, and grow: We support your continued development through tuition reimbursement, leadership training, promotion opportunities, performance evaluations, employee recognition, and a language pay stipend.

We are looking for a PRODUCT OWNER who can help shape our vision and support our mission. Here is what the position will look like.

• Collaborates with Business Stakeholders, IT Leadership, vendors, and end users to develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment.
• Works with cross-functional Agile teams and shared services including data analytics, development, and design/user experience.
• Responsible for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog.
• Work across all agile teams to define and implement improvements to enhance speed and quality.
• Participates in the Scrum of Scrums to ensure cross team collaboration and coordination.
• Participates in team demos and retrospectives.
• Sets the direction for product development in alignment with the enterprise vision.
• Participates and provides input into the product development that our vendors own.
• Understands customer requirements and validates that the developed solution(s) will deliver value to our customers and our business.
• Turns data insights into actionable outcomes for users and stakeholders.
• Partners with stakeholders and users across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Translates product(s) roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories and acceptance test criteria.
• Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the needs of stakeholders and resource availability
• Defines and executes release plans, working to ensure that impacted departments and users have what they need to be successful.
• Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance to evaluate future investment and needs.
• Manages major system-centered projects or the system portion of corporate initiatives:
• Upgrades: Assessments, planning, and execution.
• Mandate-driven changes.
• Optimize/Standardize the use of system.
• Stands up new lines of business as needed.
• Serves as thought leader with respect to leveraging the system to the best financial and performance advantages for COA.
• Creates or assists in the creation of business cases and financial models to support the customization of the product or custom software added to the product suite.
• Responsible for the creation of user stories, using interviews, document analysis, workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and workflow analysis. Builds consensus, provides direction and oversight.
• Participates in requirements prioritization by assisting the business with understanding the value of requested enhancements and the impact to COA if the enhancement is not completed.
• Leads requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and conform to standards.
• Represents the product’s capabilities to stakeholders throughout the organization. Develops and delivers presentations regarding the product to executive management, customers and other audiences, as required.
• Participates in incidents as an escalation contact supporting the incident management processes as required for urgent and high incidents.
• Stays abreast of industry and technology trends to serve as Subject Matter Expert and trainer/mentor to other IT and business team members.
• Manages customer facing communication via voice, email, and related ticketing/work request systems.
• Maintains a detailed understanding of the environment portfolio and technical aspects of the services and solutions.