Sr. Product Owner

Fortive•Minneapolis, MN

About The Position

The Sr Product Owner plays a critical role in ensuring that a product or feature is developed with a focus on delivering value to the customer and the business. They act as a voice for the customer and are responsible for making key product-related decisions throughout the development process, including identifying opportunities to incorporate emerging technologies, such as AI-enabled capabilities, where they can improve user experience, workflow efficiency, and business outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
4-7 years of relevant work experience
Experience with Product and Development tools such as ADO, Jira or other similar tools.
Healthcare and technical expertise are highly preferred, including experience with data, API integrations, and interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, evaluate outcomes, and assess opportunities related to emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, where applicable.
Leadership and decision-making skills
Excellent communication and presentation abilities
Understanding of the industry, market trends, and customer needs
Strong organizational and time management skills
Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, UI/UX, Product Management, leadership, and internal and external stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare and technical expertise are highly preferred, including experience with data, API integrations, and interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
consideration of emerging technologies where appropriate.
AI-enabled capabilities

Responsibilities

Work with stakeholders to translate future vision and requirements into clearly broken-down epics and stories; ensure all team members understand and align with product goals, including consideration of emerging technologies where appropriate.
Act as the primary point of contact between the development team and stakeholders; communicate progress, changes, and updates regularly.
Work with one or more Agile Development Teams and act as a central reference and information source, guiding system/product functionality decisions.
Demonstrate a track record of delivering results in fast-moving, demanding environments.
Create and maintain the product backlog; prioritize features, user stories, and tasks based on business value, customer needs, market trends, and strategic opportunities.
Continuously groom and refine the backlog based on feedback, changing priorities, and new insights.
Gather and incorporate feedback from stakeholders and end-users into the backlog; adjust as necessary.
Break down high-level requirements into detailed, implementable user stories that meet strong Agile standards and support effective workflows, automation, and decision support where applicable.
Define clear acceptance criteria so the team understands what constitutes “done” for each feature.
Partner with UX to ensure backlog items have wireframes and UI designs ready for sprint planning; provide design feedback, participate in design sprints, and support user acceptance testing.
Participate in sprint planning to select stories and tasks; ensure the team has a clear understanding of work scope.
Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to plan and prioritize releases aligned with market needs and business goals.
Ensure the product meets quality standards by accepting or rejecting work during sprint reviews.
Identify and mitigate delivery risks; partner with the release manager on timelines, tough conversations, mitigation strategies, and transparent escalation to leadership.
Assist in developing and presenting business cases for new features and initiatives; ensure alignment with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations.
Define KPIs and measures for features and capabilities to track impact and inform decisions.