Digital Technical Product Owner

Maximize value delivered by agile teams by turning digital product strategy into an actionable backlog and ensuring released work meets acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Own, order, and continuously refine the team backlog to maximize value and support 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 ready for delivery; collaborate with the team rather than writing requirements in isolation
• Make timely day-to-day decisions on priority, scope, and clarification within established product direction and decision rights
• Balance new capabilities, defects, technical debt, cybersecurity, quality, compliance, maintenance, and operational work using transparent priorities
• Accept or reject completed work against agreed acceptance criteria and confirm delivered capabilities support the intended outcome
• Provide clear product context, sprint or iteration goals, priorities, and rapid clarification during delivery
• Participate in planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other team activities; partner with the Scrum Master or delivery lead on flow and team effectiveness
• Collaborate with design, engineering, testing, systems, architecture, data, and quality partners to identify dependencies, resolve ambiguity, and reduce 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 connected to the problem, expected outcome, and product strategy
• Partner with the Product Manager and design or research partners in discovery, solution validation, and translation of learning into delivery-ready work
• Gather feedback from users, stakeholders, support channels, analytics, and product operations to inform 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 required product development records, reviews, approvals, and change controls within the quality management system
• Ensure nonfunctional requirements such as reliability, performance, observability, security, supportability, and maintainability are considered
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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
• Experience with DevOps and Platform development, including experience with a major cloud service provider (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud)
• 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
• AWS
• Google Cloud
• Azure DevOps
• Jira
• CI/CD
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

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 developing and deploying Azure services
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps for code management and implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates and modules in a cloud-based deployment model
• Network, system or application design, implementation or support
• 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

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
• Equity awards and participation through the Employee Stock Purchase Program

Location: Minneapolis, MN (onsite)

Salary: USD 95,000 - 125,000 per yearly