Product Owner

Product OwnerLocation: Remote, but in Minnesota area Duration: 6-12 months with the possibility of FTEWhat You'll DoOwn and evolve the product roadmap for a Pharmacy Data Reporting team operating in a post–Client cutover environment.Translate business needs, operational requirements, and technical constraints into a prioritized, actionable product backlog.Create clarity across multiple parallel workstreams, ensuring the team has defined priorities, sequencing, dependencies, and near-term delivery objectives.Partner closely with data engineers, data analysts, DataOps leaders, Scrum Masters, and pharmacy/business stakeholders.Lead backlog refinement, product discovery, prioritization discussions, and stakeholder alignment using Jira and Confluence.Define and communicate product goals, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success measures.Establish a roadmap that helps leadership assess true team capacity, demand, staffing needs, and tradeoffs.Drive change management as the team continues adapting to a combined data engineering and data analyst operating model.Bring a collaborative, coachable approach that builds trust and credibility with technical and data operations partners.Surface delivery risks, conflicting priorities, dependencies, and decision points early, then facilitate timely resolution.What We're Looking ForRequired QualificationsDemonstrated success as a Product Owner supporting data, analytics, reporting, DataOps, or data-platform teams.Strong experience developing and maintaining product roadmaps in an environment with competing priorities and numerous concurrent initiatives.Ability to turn ambiguous business and technical needs into a structured product strategy, well-prioritized backlog, and executable delivery plan.Experience partnering with both data engineers and data analysts; comfort navigating the different working styles, deliverables, and dependencies across these groups.Strong stakeholder-management and facilitation skills, including the ability to challenge unclear requests constructively and drive alignment.Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence.Strong Agile product-management fundamentals, including backlog refinement, story development, prioritization, sprint planning support, and acceptance criteria.Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, operational leaders, and business stakeholders.A coaching mindset and willingness to work within an evolving organization and team model.Preferred QualificationsPharmacy data, pharmacy operations, PBM, claims, benefits, or healthcare reporting experience.Experience supporting work related to Client or a comparable pharmacy-benefits integration or transition.Healthcare data, health informatics, payer, provider, or enterprise reporting experience.Experience working with cloud data platforms and Databricks.Experience in a DataOps operating model or with teams combining data engineering and data analysis capabilities.Prior experience leading product work through organizational or operating-model change.Why This Role MattersThe Pharmacy Data Reporting team has significant work underway but needs stronger product leadership to create a credible roadmap, sequence competing needs, and establish greater visibility into capacity and delivery. The incoming Product Owner will not simply administer a backlog—they will provide the product direction, prioritization discipline, and cross-functional coordination needed to help the team operate more effectively.Pharmacy-domain experience is not mandatory, but it will help the candidate quickly establish credibility with data operations partners and contribute more rapidly in a highly visible healthcare-data environment.