Product Owner - Sierra Product Line

Role Description

Cadwell is seeking a Product Owner – Sierra Product Line to serve as the vital link between our clinical vision and engineering execution. This role is designed for a professional with a technical foundation who has gained hands-on experience in the Sierra clinical environment and now wishes to drive product development from the “inside.”

As the Technical Translator for the Sierra product line, you will spend approximately 70% of your time working directly with the engineering team to manage the product backlog, lead technical refinement, and ensure that every feature, whether hardware or software, is clinically usable and technically sound. The Product Owner works in close partnership with a Product Manager who owns overall product strategy, market positioning, and lifecycle decisions.

This is a technical leadership role: the Product Owner sets technical direction and drives cross-functional decisions across Engineering, Support, and partners.

Key Duties / Responsibilities

• Backlog Ownership & Prioritization: Manage and refine the EEG product backlog to align with PM roadmap and business priorities.
• Features Definition: Translate clinical workflows and user needs into clear product features.
• Technical Refinement & Collaboration: Participate in technical refinement sessions to provide clinical context and clarify functional goals.
• Agile Ceremony Ownership: Own and facilitate the team's Agile ceremonies and hold the team accountable to the agreed development process.
• Release & Launch Process Ownership: Own the product's progression through Cadwell's release, versioning, and change-control processes.
• Technical Guidance & Direction: Provide technical and architectural direction to the development team.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Lead functional validation and user acceptance testing.
• Clinical Validation: Plan and coordinate clinical validation of new features and algorithms.
• Hardware/Software/Consumables Ecosystem Alignment: Ensure that software requirements account for the full product ecosystem.
• Escalated Support Partnership: Provide expert clinical and functional guidance to the service and support teams.
• Development Partner Support: Support Cadwell's clinical development and key-opinion-leader (KOL) partners.
• Documentation: Create and maintain user-facing documentation, release notes, training materials, and functional requirements.
• Other Duties: Perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned.

Qualifications

• Technical Translation: Ability to decompose complex clinical workflows into logical, granular requirements.
• Systems Thinking: Ability to understand technical specifications and system architecture.
• Detail-Oriented Communication: Exceptional English written and oral communication skills.
• Problem Diagnosis: Ability to provide strategic technical insight for escalated customer issues.
• Strong Prioritization Skills: Ability to make difficult trade-off decisions.
• Collaboration: Ability to complete work both independently and as an effective member of a team.
• Technical Leadership & Influence: Lead cross-functional execution and build alignment across teams.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (BS) in Engineering (Biomedical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering) or Computer Science is strongly preferred.
• Experience Requirements: 5+ years of experience in software product development or engineering.
• Clinical Domain Experience: Hands-on clinical experience with Cadwell neurodiagnostic systems or comparable equipment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Clinical Exposure: Experience with clinical EEG workflows or neurodiagnostic equipment.
• Hospital Network Systems: Working knowledge of hospital network architecture and healthcare interoperability standards.
• Industry Knowledge: Experience in a medical device or similarly regulated environment.
• Agile Proficiency: Previous experience in a Product Owner or Business Analyst role using Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Physical Requirements / Working Conditions

• Physical Demands: May require reaching, bending, stooping, and lifting/carrying up to 50 pounds.
• Location: Strong preference is to be based out of headquarters in Kennewick, WA.
• Travel: Travel to various commercial events and key customer sites is required (approximately 10%).
• Compliance: Ensure products adhere to clinical data integrity and medical device standards.
• Credentialing: May be required to register with a vendor credentialing service.

Salary Range

$130,000 — $145,000 USD