Product Owner Manager
About The Position
Wellfit is the dental industryâs fintech solution! A healthcare fintech company that enhances experiences between patients, providers, employers and payors. Wellfit provides access to treatment and care of all by removing financial barriers. Role Summary: The Product Owner Manager is a people leader and senior individual contributor responsible for driving product delivery while directly managing a small team of Product Owners. This role combines hands-on product ownership with people leadership, ensuring strong execution, healthy backlogs, and consistent delivery practices across assigned product areas. The Product Owner Manager plays a key role in scaling the Product organization by developing talent, setting expectations, and maintaining delivery rigor, while continuing to directly own and deliver on product initiatives.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst, or similar role in a SaaS, fintech, or health tech environment
- Prior experience managing or formally leading Product Owners or similar roles
- Strong experience owning product backlogs and delivering complex initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and performance-manage team members
- Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum practices and tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience managing teams while maintaining hands-on product ownership
- Experience working across multiple product domains or platforms
- Familiarity with configuration-heavy platforms, rules engines, or eligibility/benefits logic
- Background in healthcare, fintech, or other regulated industries
- Experience operating in scaled Agile environments
Responsibilities
- People Management & Team Leadership
- Directly manage and develop 2â3 Product Owners
- Set clear expectations, goals, and priorities for direct reports
- Provide ongoing coaching, feedback, and performance guidance
- Support career development, skill growth, and succession planning
- Partner with Product leadership on staffing, capacity planning, and team structure
- Product Ownership & Delivery
- Maintain direct ownership of assigned products, features, or initiatives
- Own backlog prioritization, refinement, and readiness for assigned workstreams
- Translate product strategy and roadmap initiatives into executable plans
- Ensure high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, and documentation
- Balance short-term delivery needs with longer-term product health
- Portfolio & Execution Leadership
- Align priorities, sequencing, and dependencies across Product Owners
- Support cross-team coordination and delivery predictability
- Serve as an escalation point for complex delivery or prioritization issues
- Partner with Product Managers to ensure alignment between strategy and execution
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, and Scrum Masters to support delivery health
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs
- Promote strong collaboration and transparency across teams and stakeholders
- Standards & Continuous Improvement
- Establish and reinforce best practices for backlog management and delivery execution
- Improve consistency and quality across product teams
- Leverage delivery metrics to identify improvement opportunities
- Drive continuous improvement in delivery predictability and outcomes
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Paid time off
- 401(k) with up to 4% matching
- Opportunity to drive innovation in payments as Wellfit continues to grow as a leading payment facilitator
- Access to modern tools and technologies to support product delivery and innovation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
