Healthcare Product Owner Clinical & Quality Analytics

Huron • Chicago, IL

1d • $140,000 - $190,000 • Remote

About The Position

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes. Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change. You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. At Huron, our values—Integrity, Collaboration, Impact, Intellectual Curiosity, Inclusion, Excellence, and Humility—guide how we work, innovate, and serve clients and communities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in a finance or computer science related discipline. (MBA preferred)
• 3+ years as a Product Owner, Technical Business Analyst, or Product Manager supporting software, analytics, or data-driven product development.
• Proven execution strength in managing backlogs, driving Agile ceremonies, removing blockers, and ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex product vision into precise, buildable development plans—including epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint sequencing.
• Exceptional clarity in written and verbal communication, with the ability to bridge strategic intent and technical implementation.
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering, data science, and architecture teams to ensure technical feasibility and alignment.
• Comfort working with analytical concepts (metrics, dashboards, data workflows, KPIs) and supporting data-informed product decisions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, particularly with clinical, operational, or business-facing users.
• Ability to balance strategic understanding with disciplined tactical execution.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in healthcare operations, clinical workflows, throughput management, or quality improvement (ED, inpatient, or perioperative exposure is a plus).
• Familiarity with healthcare data assets such as EMR/EHR structures, LOS metrics, throughput indicators, quality datasets, or utilization/claims data.
• Experience partnering with data scientists and engineers on analytics, AI, or ML-enabled features.
• Exposure to: SQL, R, Python Data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, QuickSight, R Shiny, etc.) AI/ML concepts, NLP, or agentic analytics Modern data stack components (semantic layers, curated datasets, data lakes, etc.)
• Background in healthcare analytics consulting, SaaS product development, or technical program management.
• Experience supporting both external clients and internal consulting or delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Product Vision & Roadmap Maintain and continuously refine a clear product vision and roadmap aligned with clinical quality, operational throughput, and healthcare outcomes and operational differentiated performance. Translate strategic direction from the Product Manager into actionable development plans, epics, features, and sprint-ready stories. Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring business value alignment, workflow relevance, and technical feasibility. Lead future-state visioning for AI-driven and agentic analytics capabilities. Excellence: Hold yourself and others accountable for high-quality outcomes and reliable, predictable delivery.
• Stakeholder Collaboration Serve as the central connector across clinical operations, consulting, engineering, data science, architecture, platform, and UX. Collaborate with the Product Manager and others to gather and synthesize input from clinicians, hospital operations leaders, internal consulting teams, and technical partners to shape product features and value streams. Help capture the voice of both customers and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment with operational, clinical, and market needs. Facilitate Agile ceremonies and foster cross-functional collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership. Collaboration & Inclusion: Embrace diverse perspectives to spark innovation and drive effective teamwork.
• Requirements Gathering & Analysis Lead end-to-end requirements discovery: functional, non-functional, workflow, and technical. Translate clinical and operational needs into precise, testable, buildable epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and use cases. Partner with architects, engineers, and data scientists to validate feasibility and alignment with system architecture, curated datasets, and semantic layer structures. Maintain disciplined traceability of requirements and support change management processes. Integrity: Bring honesty, transparency, and rigor to every step of the development process.
• Customer-Centric and Platform Design Partner with the Insights Platform team and UX/UI resources to deliver intuitive, accessible, and workflow-aligned user experiences. Conduct testing, feedback sessions, workflow observations, and rapid iteration cycles to validate assumptions and refine product direction. Intellectual Curiosity: Continuously explore new ideas, challenge assumptions, and learn from users.
• Business Analysis & Quality Improvement Support Conduct workflow assessments and gap analyses to uncover opportunities for operational improvement. Support validation, QA, UAT, and release readiness efforts to ensure design integrity and value realization. Document current- and future-state processes, workflows, and data flows that underpin scalable product development. Humility: Recognize that innovative products evolve through learning, iteration, and shared insight.

Benefits

• Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
• Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees