Product Owner

Job Description

Welcome to AMN Healthcare - Where Talent Meets Purpose

Ever wondered what it takes to build one of the largest and most respected healthcare staffing and total talent solutions companies? It takes trailblazers, innovators, and exceptional people like you.

At AMN Healthcare, we don't just offer jobs - we build careers that make a difference.

Why AMN Healthcare? Because Excellence Is Our Standard:

• Named to Becker's Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare - three years running.
• Consistently ranked among SIA's Largest Staffing Firms in America.
• Honored with Modern Healthcare's Innovators Award for driving change through innovation.
• Proud holder of The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for Staffing Companies since 2006

Location: Dallas, TX - 2 days a week onsite

**This role doesn't provide sponsorship or H1b transfers.

Job Summary

The Product Owner will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Design, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into clear, actionable user stories while maintaining a cohesive product vision. This role requires someone who is hands on using AI tools as part of their daily workflow-enhancing requirements creation, backlog refinement, stakeholder communication, prioritization, and release readiness. The ideal candidate acts as the voice of the customer, balancing business value, user needs, and technical feasibility to ensure the development team delivers maximum value every sprint.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, stakeholder needs, and technical dependencies
• Actively leverage AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar) to improve productivity and quality in User story creation and refinement, acceptance criteria and edge-case discovery, release notes and stakeholder communications
• Demonstrate comfort experimenting with AI-assisted workflows and continuously improving how AI supports product delivery.
• Collaborate with Product Management to align backlog priorities with the product roadmap and strategic objectives
• Develop clear, detailed user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria using frameworks like INVEST
• Define sprint goals and participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the development team regarding requirements clarification and priority decisions
• Engage with stakeholders and end-users to gather feedback and validate solutions
• Facilitate backlog refinement sessions to ensure stories are ready for upcoming sprints
• Provide Product Owner sign-off on completed work and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business stakeholders for all releases containing user-impacting capabilities
• Prepare release communications including detailed release notes and conduct release demos to showcase upcoming features and functionality

Key Skills

• Agile/Scrum Expertise: Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum framework, and Product Owner responsibilities
• User Story Development: Ability to write clear, testable user stories with acceptance criteria using INVEST principles
• Critical Thinking: Creative and critical thinking skills to address complex challenges and remove impediments
• Prompt Engineering & AI Tool Proficiency: Experience using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) to enhance productivity in requirements documentation, user story creation, and stakeholder communications, release notes etc.
• Data-Driven Mindset: Ability to use metrics, analytics, and user feedback to inform prioritization and measure success

Qualifications

Education & Years of Experience

• Bachelor's Degree plus 2-5 years of work experience OR High School Diploma/GED plus 6-9 years of work experience in healthcare or language services
• Experience in AI-enabled environment and demonstrates strong product thinking is required
• Experience with API integrations and third-party platform connectivity
• Experience in healthcare domain (Preferred)
• Experience in successfully launching user-facing features and capabilities

Certifications

• Certified Product Owner (Preferred)

Work Environment / Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in an office/home office environment.
• Team Members must have the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards.

AMN Healthcare will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the job.

Our Core Values

• Respect • Passion • Continuous Improvement • Trust • Customer Focus • Innovation

At AMN we embrace the ways we are similar and different; respecting all voices and ensuring everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our collective success. We acknowledge our shared responsibility to foster a welcoming environment where everyone feels recognized and valued. We cast a wide net to recruit and retain competitive talent and build healthcare workforces supportive of the communities we serve. We believe in the power of compassion and collaboration to build healthy communities where access to quality care is available to all. Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

At AMN we recognize that in-person connections have value and promote collaboration. You will be expected to come into an AMN Healthcare office at a frequency dependent on the work arrangement for your role.

Pay Rate
$90,000 - $107,000 Salary
Final pay rate is dependent on experience, training, education, and location.