Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kainos is a company focused on creating real impact through innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a Product Lead in Healthcare who will manage the end-to-end product backlog and lead agile delivery teams, ensuring effective requirements-gathering and prioritization processes while engaging with stakeholders to drive product quality and commercial success.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for ensuring that requirements-gathering, refinement and prioritisation processes are effective
- Responsible for owning the end-to-end product backlog and takes responsibility for story quality and maturity
- Experience devising goal-oriented roadmaps, gaining buy-in from stakeholders and instilling a focus on MVP
- Experience leading on the collaborative breakdown of goals into small pieces of value-delivering work
- Experience leading product teams ensuring the product vision and goals are understood so that scope is managed by the team effectively
- Experience in shaping the approach taken in a range of phases of the software development lifecycle – such as analysis, acceptance, launch and live ops
- Proven ability to lead, providing direction and promoting good product management practices, across one or more agile teams
- Actively supports and builds relationships with product and programme-level business stakeholders
- Experience implementing appropriate tools/standards/techniques for business analysis and requirements gathering, securing appropriate buy-in from our internal teams and the client
- Facilitates workshops with senior stakeholders, negotiating conflicting viewpoints and achieving buy-in for new initiatives
- Responsible for working with delivery leads and solution architects to managing scope within commercial constraints, such as cost restrictions or project deadlines
- Strong commercial awareness and an active participation in revenue or sales-generating activity
- Demonstrate a good understanding of relevant technologies and architecture concepts
- Experience coaching and mentoring clients and colleagues in agile techniques and best practices
- We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team management skills, including effectively managing a multi-disciplinary team is crucial
- We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community is important
Skills
- Responsible for ensuring that requirements-gathering, refinement and prioritisation processes are effective
- Responsible for owning the end-to-end product backlog and takes responsibility for story quality and maturity
- Experience devising goal-oriented roadmaps, gaining buy-in from stakeholders and instilling a focus on MVP
- Experience leading on the collaborative breakdown of goals into small pieces of value-delivering work
- Experience leading product teams ensuring the product vision and goals are understood so that scope is managed by the team effectively
- Experience in shaping the approach taken in a range of phases of the software development lifecycle – such as analysis, acceptance, launch and live ops
- Proven ability to lead, providing direction and promoting good product management practices, across one or more agile teams
- Actively supports and builds relationships with product and programme-level business stakeholders
- Experience implementing appropriate tools/standards/techniques for business analysis and requirements gathering, securing appropriate buy-in from our internal teams and the client
- Facilitates workshops with senior stakeholders, negotiating conflicting viewpoints and achieving buy-in for new initiatives
- Responsible for working with delivery leads and solution architects to managing scope within commercial constraints, such as cost restrictions or project deadlines
- Strong commercial awareness and an active participation in revenue or sales-generating activity
- Demonstrate a good understanding of relevant technologies and architecture concepts
- Experience coaching and mentoring clients and colleagues in agile techniques and best practices
- We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team management skills, including effectively managing a multi-disciplinary team is crucial
- We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community is important
- Hands on experience in another discipline within software development, for example developer, tester or support engineer
- Experience working on client site day-to-day
- Active participant in communities of interest (e.g. online groups, speaking at conferences etc.)
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