Product Owner

Ready to leave a lasting impact on Australia’s health industry?

Join HAMBS, a leading provider of software and information technology solutions to the private health insurance sector for over 30 years. Our dedicated team spans across Adelaide and Sydney, collaborating with over 60% of Australia’s private health funds, empowering them to deliver innovative and competitive services to their valued members. At HAMBS, “work” is a vibrant and fun experience. Our culture is driven by values that define us as united, good humans, brave, and awesome.

For more information about HAMBS and to explore our current career opportunities, visit: https://jobs.swagapp.com/organisations/hamb-systems

About the Role

In this position, you will work with stakeholders to manage and prioritise our product backlog, ensuring alignment with our product vision and strategic goals. Acting as the customer proxy, you will engage with customers and industry representatives to ensure the product meets market needs and creates value. Additionally, you will help schedule and plan upcoming projects for effective execution in a scaled agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with customers, Enterprise Portfolio Team, team members and other key stakeholders to define and prioritise the backlog, coordinating dependencies with other product owners and advise key stakeholders of decisions
• Work with the Scrum Master and Product Team to break the Epics into Increment (Sprint) Goals, Features and Stories.
• Act as the escalation point for critical incidents associated with the product, ensuring regular updates on status and resolution in line with service level agreements.
• Work with the Scrum Master to ensure effective management of incidents and service requests by the team, driving performance against service level agreements.
• Build effective relationships with key stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• Regularly, and via appropriate channels, communicate updates and progress to stakeholders.
• Facilitate open communication, discussion and collaboration between stakeholders.

About You

• Experience in a similar role, specifically in product backlog management.
• Experience translating business and user requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria suitable for implementation.
• Ability to apply critical thinking to assess issues and contribute to effective problem solving.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship management and teamwork skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Desirable: knowledge of the Private Health Insurance industry.

Employee Benefits

• Flexible working options, both onsite and remote.
• Access to an online learning system and world-class internal and external training sessions.
• Study leaves and a study support program.
• Internal employee referral program.

As part of the recruitment process, candidates will need to complete satisfactory verification checks, including but not limited to a National Police Clearance Certificate, appropriate rights to work in Australia, and reference checks.

Our HR team and hiring managers kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies.