Sr. Product Owner

The Sr Product Owner plays a critical role in ensuring that a product or feature is developed with a focus on delivering value to the customer and the business. They act as a voice for the customer and are responsible for making key product-related decisions throughout the development process including identifying opportunities to incorporate emerging technologies such as AI-enabled capabilities where they can improve user experience workflow efficiency and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Vision & Stakeholder Alignment

Translation: Work with stakeholders to translate future vision and requirements into clearly broken-down epics and stories; ensure all team members understand and align with product goals including consideration of emerging technologies where appropriate.

• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary point of contact between the development team and stakeholders; communicate progress changes and updates regularly.
• Team Enabler: Work with one or more Agile Development Teams and act as a central reference and information source guiding system/product functionality decisions.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Demonstrate a track record of delivering results in fast-moving demanding environments.

Backlog Ownership & Prioritization

• Prioritization: Create and maintain the product backlog; prioritize features user stories and tasks based on business value customer needsmarket trends and strategic opportunities.
• Backlog Management: Continuously groom and refine the backlog based on feedback changing priorities and new insights.
• Feedback Integration: Gather and incorporate feedback from stakeholders and end-users into the backlog; adjust as necessary.

Requirements & Customer Experience (UX)

• User Story Development: Break down high-level requirements into detailed implementable user stories that meet strong Agile standards and support effective workflows automation and decision support where applicable.
• Acceptance Criteria: Define clear acceptance criteria so the team understands what constitutes done for each feature.
• UI/UX Alignment: Partner with UX to ensure backlog items have wireframes and UI designs ready for sprint planning; provide design feedback participate in design sprints and support user acceptance testing.

Planning Delivery & Risk

• Sprint Planning: Participate in sprint planning to select stories and tasks; ensure the team has a clear understanding of work scope.
• Release Planning: Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to plan and prioritize releases aligned with market needs and business goals.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure the product meets quality standards by accepting or rejecting work during sprint reviews.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate delivery risks; partner with the release manager on timelines tough conversations mitigation strategies and transparent escalation to leadership.

Business Outcomes & Data

• Business Case Support: Assist in developing and presenting business cases for new features and initiatives; ensure alignment with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations.
• Data-Driven: Define KPIs and measures for features and capabilities to track impact and inform decisions.

Required Qualifications:

Education & Experience Guidelines

• Bachelors Degree in relevant field
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with Product and Development tools such as ADO Jira or other similar tools.
• Healthcare and technical expertise are highly preferred including experience with data API integrations and interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions evaluate outcomes and assess opportunities related to emerging technologies including AI-enabled capabilities where applicable.
• Leadership and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Understanding of the industry market trends and customer needs
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across Engineering UI/UX Product Management leadership and internal and external stakeholders.
• Travel up to 30%