Digital Technical Product Owner

Inspire therapy • Minneapolis, MN

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The Digital Technical Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value delivered by one or more agile product teams. Working from product strategy and outcomes established with the Product Manager, product team, and stakeholders, this role translates priorities into a clear, actionable backlog; ensures work is understood and ready; makes timely team-level decisions; and validates completed work against agreed acceptance criteria. The role partners with engineering, systems, architecture, quality, regulatory, cybersecurity, privacy, data, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant digital capabilities.

Inspire Medical Systems develops an FDA-approved medical device intended to reduce the severity of obstructive sleep apnea for people who cannot tolerate or consistently benefit from CPAP. The company focuses on improving patient outcomes through sleep innovation and emphasizes integrity, respect, and a people-first culture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Computer Science, Healthcare Administration, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in product ownership, business analysis, software delivery, engineering, design, quality, program management, or a related digital product role.
• Demonstrated experience managing and prioritizing a product backlog and defining user stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and team goals.
• Experience as an embedded partner to cross-functional agile software teams, including internal or external delivery partners.
• Ability to translate user, business, technical, and compliance needs into actionable team-level work.
• Experience with DevOps and platform development, including experience with a major cloud service provider such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Sound judgment and confidence making timely decisions, with awareness of when to involve the Product Manager or other decision makers.
• Strong facilitation, communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using digital delivery tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira and interpreting delivery and product data.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with healthcare, medical devices, regulated software, software as a medical device, or another regulated industry.
• Experience with quality systems, design controls, risk management, human factors, privacy, cybersecurity, accessibility, or validation.
• Experience developing and deploying Azure services.
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps for code management and implementation of CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates and modules within a cloud-based deployment model.
• Network, system, or application design, implementation, or support experience.
• Experience with mobile applications, web products, cloud services, APIs, data products, identity and access capabilities, or connected devices.
• Agile or product ownership certification.
• Experience working with distributed or vendor development teams.

Responsibilities

• Own, order, and continuously refine the team backlog to maximize value and support product outcomes, roadmap priorities, quality needs, technical sustainability, and operational commitments.
• Translate product goals, user needs, business rules, regulatory needs, and technical constraints into backlog items, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting context.
• Ensure backlog items are understood, appropriately sliced and sequenced, and ready for delivery in collaboration with the team.
• Make timely day-to-day priority, scope, and clarification decisions within established product direction and decision rights.
• Balance new capabilities, defects, technical debt, cybersecurity, quality, compliance, maintenance, and operational work through transparent prioritization.
• Accept or reject completed work against agreed acceptance criteria and confirm delivered capabilities support intended outcomes.
• Provide the cross-functional team with product context, sprint or iteration goals, priorities, and timely clarification.
• Participate in planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other team activities, partnering with the Scrum Master or delivery lead on flow and team effectiveness.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, testing, systems, architecture, data, and quality partners to identify dependencies, resolve ambiguity, and reduce delivery risk.
• Manage intake, triage urgent requests and defects, protect team focus, and make trade-offs visible to the Product Manager and stakeholders.
• Coordinate priorities and dependencies across teams while maintaining a transparent source of truth for committed and upcoming work.
• Support release planning, readiness, validation, deployment, and post-release monitoring.
• Represent user and customer needs at the team level and keep work connected to the problem, expected outcome, and product strategy.
• Partner with the Product Manager and design or research partners in discovery, solution validation, and translating learning into delivery-ready work.
• Gather feedback from users, stakeholders, support channels, analytics, and product operations to inform backlog decisions and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate completed capabilities and communicate delivered value, open decisions, risks, and next steps.
• Embed applicable quality, regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, accessibility, clinical, safety, and data requirements into backlog items and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain traceability and support required product development records, reviews, approvals, and change controls within the quality management system.
• Partner with team members to consider reliability, performance, observability, security, supportability, and maintainability requirements.
• Support defect triage and post-market improvements as assigned.
• Use delivery and product data to identify bottlenecks, quality trends, and opportunities to improve team flow and delivered value.

Benefits

• Multiple health insurance plan options.
• Employer contributions to a Health Savings Account.
• Dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Identity protection.
• Flexible time off.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Opportunity for employees at all levels to participate in company ownership and success through equity awards and the Employee Stock Purchase Program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior