Digital Product Owner

The Digital Product Owner maximizes the impact delivered by one or more agile product teams by converting product strategy into a clearly defined, continuously refined backlog. This role works daily with cross-functional partners to deliver digital capabilities that are usable, reliable, secure, and compliant, while validating results against acceptance criteria.

Location and Work Model

Minneapolis, MN (onsite)

Compensation

$95,000 - $125,000 USD per year

Core Responsibilities

• Own, order, and continuously refine the team backlog to maximize value and align to 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, sliced, sequenced, and delivery-ready; collaborate with the team rather than author requirements independently.
• Make timely day-to-day decisions on priority, scope, and clarification within established product direction and decision rights.
• Maintain transparent prioritization across new capabilities, defects, technical debt, cybersecurity, quality, compliance, maintenance, and operational work.
• Accept or reject completed work against agreed acceptance criteria and confirm that delivered capabilities support the intended outcome.
• Provide cross-functional teams with product context, sprint or iteration goals, priorities, and rapid clarification during delivery.
• Participate in planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and related activities; partner with the Scrum Master or delivery lead to support flow and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, testing, systems, architecture, data, and quality partners to identify dependencies, reduce ambiguity, and mitigate delivery risk.
• Protect team focus by managing intake, triaging urgent requests and defects, and making trade-offs visible to the Product Manager and stakeholders.
• Coordinate priorities and dependencies across teams while maintaining one 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 to keep work aligned 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 guide 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 product development records, reviews, approvals, and change controls within the quality management system.
• Partner with team members to ensure nonfunctional requirements are considered, including reliability, performance, observability, security, supportability, and maintainability.
• 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Computer Science, Healthcare Administration, or related discipline.
• 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 clear user stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and team goals.
• Experience working 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.
• Sound judgment for timely decisions, including knowing 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.

Technologies

Azure DevOps, Jira

Benefits

• Multiple health insurance plan options.
• Employer contributions to Health Savings Account.
• Dental, Vision, Life and Disability benefits.
• 401k plan + employer match.
• Identity Protection.
• Flexible time off.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Employee Assistance program.
• Opportunity to participate in ownership and success through equity awards and the Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Preferred Experience

• 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 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.