About the position
The Product Owner will collaborate with the Product Manager, UX and engineering teams to translate designs into user stories, adhering to Agile principles and ceremonies to bring features to market. They make decisions and/or recommendations for existing and new features, synthesized all data points, develop a proposal aligned with the product strategy based on voice of the customer, data, industry knowledge and experience to significantly advance the product. This role requires a high-level understanding of the software development lifecycle, complex product management processes - including roadmap development, backlog grooming, new feature design and development along with experience in the software industry, project management, and user experience design.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a liaison between business stakeholders and the technical team, facilitating cross-department communication.
- Acts as the main information resource for feature definition and scope-specific requirements.
- Gathers business requirements and effectively communicates and documents complex user interaction scenarios.
- Engages in frequent communication with business stakeholders for gathering requirements and making recommendations. Explains gaps and technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
- Owns/organizes documentation of product workflow changes and technical/functional designs needed to support the business and/or customer requirements for common and more complex problems.
- Ability to write and groom user stories targeted to improve the user experience and drive specific outcomes and acceptance criteria.
- Develops a strong feature-level understanding of customer applications.
- Stays apprised of the latest technologies and innovations in web and mobile application technologies.
- Consistently meets agreed-upon deadlines; escalates issues, concerns and barriers to team leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 4+ years of experience in a Product Owner role working with complex digital products.
- Experience working in highly regulated, customer solutions industry such as Finance, Health Care, biopharma, or life sciences industry.
- Strong understanding of agile development methodologies.
- Understanding of clinical trial platforms or healthcare related software preferred
- Pre-clinical and clinical lab experience
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in analyzing business goals and metrics, leading requirements-gathering sessions and documenting business requirements and/or user stories for complex customer applications.
- Familiarity or direct experience with Quality Assurance practices and execution, including writing acceptance criteria and/or test plans.
- Demonstrated understanding of and experience with product engineering and product management.
- Experience with project life-cycle management tools such as Confluence and Jira.
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, presentation, facilitation) and the ability to present technical and non-technical information clearly and concisely to a broad range of audiences.
- Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment.
- Entrepreneurial drive and the ability to respond to shifting priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
- Highly skilled at facilitation, negotiation and conflict resolution.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- STD/LTD
- 401(k)
- Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
