Product Owner - Exchange

GHX

4d•$91,000 - $121,000•Remote

About The Position

The Product Owner will have a technical focus and work with product managers, internal stakeholders, 3rd-party partners, and customers to gain a thorough understanding of their product and market needs, translating them into feature stories and tasks for development. You will be responsible for turning the product vision into an actionable backlog and advocating the customers’ needs to the development team. The Product Owner is responsible for the development backlog, grooming, and acceptance. This individual will execute converting the product vision and roadmap into workable product requirements for engineering to meet product roadmap expectations defined by the Product Manager. This role will report to the Manager, Product Management – [product line] and will regularly engage with cross-functional leaders. The ideal candidate must be well-versed in agile scrum and comfortable working in all aspects of a multifaceted delivery network. You will demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills, be self-motivated and detail-oriented, and be a good team player. Other duties include prioritization of key backlog items that drive growth and success, developing supporting documentation, and keeping customers and stakeholders informed of the status of the product.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of professional experience, preferably in product ownership, project management or business analysis
At least 1 year of experience in Product Management and/or Product Development
Established background in launching software services in partnership with Engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development and experience working within an Agile scrum team environment

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare IT, supply chain, or SaaS environments
Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, AI-assisted product tools, and agile tooling
Experience in platform and integration-oriented technical domains

Responsibilities

Owns and prioritizes the sprint backlog for assigned platform and technical domains, balancing technical debt, reliability, and roadmap commitments
Translates platform and technical requirements into well-defined epics, user stories, technical specification and acceptance criteria
Converts product vision into actional backlog items that deliver platform enablement, reliability, scalability and technical debt reduction
Participates in sprint planning, grooming, retrospectives and reviews for assigned technical and platform teams
Works with Product Management, Engineering leads, architects and security teams to support platform decisions that are technically sound and aligned with product direction
Communicates platform capability needs to the development team and represents technical requirements in prioritization decisions
Supports and utilizes technical discovery with Engineering leads and internal platform consumers to inform backlog priorities
Communicates platform capability releases to internal consumers and Engineering teams in coordination with Product and Technology leadership
Serves as a subject matter expert for assigned platform and technical domains, supporting Engineering onboarding tooling, and organizational education
Escalates technical risks, platform dependencies and roadmap gaps to Product leadership proactively
Maintains regular alignment with the Product Manager and Product Leadership on roadmap priorities, backlog direction, and technical outcomes; raises conflicts between technical demands and roadmap commitments proactively
Maintains a minimum of two sprints of groomed and estimated backlog at all times for assigned tea upms.
Contributes to epic-level roadmap tracking across quarters in coordination with the Product Manager and/or Manager of Product Management for assigned domains
Participates in pod-level planning, estimation sessions and steerco readouts as required
Ability to travel up to 20%