Product Owner

The Product Owner at A-dec, Inc. (USA) is a product expert who helps translate market signals and customer input into a focused product plan. Based in Newberg, OR (onsite), you will work with multiple teams to support A-dec product vision and roadmap through enhancements and market releases.

In this role, you will partner with stakeholders across product development and the broader business to prioritize what matters, validate ideas in the field, and keep teams aligned to growth goals. Your work will center on turning research and feedback into deliverable outcomes for real customer problems.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, development teams, and other stakeholders to understand customer problems and potential solutions.
• Decide what to address next, including timing and how value can be delivered as early as possible.
• Use research, analysis, and decision-making to identify a range of enhancements and turn them into an achievable roadmap.
• Ensure development teams understand why features are prioritized and remain motivated to build products for customers.
• Work closely with Senior and Principal Product Managers to maintain alignment between the roadmap and business strategy.
• Coordinate with teams across the business, including support, marketing, training, and sales, to bring solutions to market.
• Communicate with business stakeholders and the development team to align growth goals and objectives with strategic business objectives.
• Execute field validation of new products and coordinate site locations, installations, and evaluation procedures.
• Own, organize, and update the product feature backlog, establishing priorities during planning and potentially daily stand-ups.
• Build relationships beyond product development, partnering with key business groups such as Territory Managers and Dealer Partners to address issues and improve feedback loops.
• Gather customer input to support an outcome-driven innovation funnel.

Qualifications

• Generally requires a bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Engineering, or another related discipline, with approximately 1 to 3 years of experience in product marketing, management, development, and/or analysis.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills, with the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage time and resources effectively.
• Strong technical product knowledge, understanding of product strategy, and a high level of customer intimacy; must also have knowledge of dental industry practices and trends.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment, with functional experience in engineering and product management (PO, PM, PMM).
• Dental or medical device or consumable industry experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to partner with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders, including experience taking a lead role on smaller projects or parts of larger initiatives.
• A background check and screening for the illegal use of drugs is required.

Minimum experience: 1 years

Location: Newberg, OR (onsite)