Product Owner

Title: Product Owner

Duration 12 Months


As a Product Owner, the individual is accountable within the R&D group for functional feature definition and the value of the product resulting from the work of the Development Team. Ensures the solution is valid and valuable to stakeholders through subject matter expertise in the assigned product domain, continued customer engagement throughout the software development life cycle, driving accountability by the business for user needs, and leading continuous backlog grooming.


Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to perform user needs, requirements, and functional workflow analysis in advance of development team, and in partnership with them, clearly and concisely define what should be developed and tested. Prototypes, documents, and reviews functional software solutions with the cross-functional development team to solve our customer's greatest problems within the context of a system software release.

Job Responsibilities:
• Elicit feedback from internal and external stakeholders to confirm that the functional problems are sufficiently understood
• Partner with business owners to clarify and prioritize value of product backlog
• Analyzes assigned functional workflows supported by Infusion software products
• Documents functional needs of the end-user in the form of Features and User Stories & their associated acceptance criteria and specifications
• May model functional workflows and create story maps for assigned features
• Partner with UX designers to create visual representations of the proposed solutions
• Independently leads the internal development team and broader R&D stakeholders through backlog grooming and refinement activities
• Responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Development Team
• Ensures that the software engineering, software quality engineering, and product management teams understand the functional solutions well enough to successfully estimate, develop, and test them
• Drives readiness of features ahead of implementation
• Ensures product features have met the team's definition of done



Desired Experience:
• Experience working within a cross-functional product development team
• Demonstrates working knowledge of agile product development practices, techniques, processes, and roles
• Familiarity with the medication management product domain
• Experience defining user-facing problem statements and confirming validity with internal and external customer stakeholders
• Ability to translate the results of analysis into a functional design by designing solutions to address requirement(s)



Qualifications:
• Must have a minimum - Bachelor's degree in related field, preferably in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
• 3 - 5 years experience in a requirements engineering, system engineering, business analysis, or product ownership role



Desired Abilities:
• Successful in partnering with Software Engineering, Software Quality Engineering, Product Management, and/or Project Management teams
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Comfort with presenting to large cross-functional groups
• Ability to garner and drive consensus across multiple functions
• Comfortable with ambiguity



Preferred experience:
• Familiarity with the hospital, pharmacy, nursing, biomed or other clinically related domains
• Exposure to Hospital Information Systems (EHR, Pharmacy Information Systems, Patient ADT, PDMS)
• Experience creating and reviewing formal design inputs such as User Needs, Requirements, and Specifications
• Experience working within an agile software development environment, directly supporting the needs of the sprint team as a product owner or product owner-proxy
• Experience working on systems comprised of hardware and software