Sr. Product Owner

As a Sr. Product Owner at Provation, you will help ensure product and feature development stays tightly focused on delivering measurable value for both customers and the business. This role serves as a central bridge between stakeholders and Agile delivery, shaping product decisions across vision, backlog, release planning, and outcomes. You will also have opportunities to incorporate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, where they strengthen real-world value.

Location: Boston, MA (onsite)
Compensation: USD 109,700 - 183,200 per yearly
Bonus: Eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to turn future vision and requirements into clearly broken-down epics and stories, ensuring alignment with product goals across the team.
• Act as the primary point of contact between the development team and stakeholders, communicating progress, changes, and updates on a regular basis.
• Work with one or more Agile Development Teams as a key reference for system and product functionality decisions.
• Demonstrate a track record of delivering results in fast-moving, demanding environments.
• Create, maintain, and continuously refine the product backlog, prioritizing features, user stories, and tasks based on business value, customer needs, market trends, and strategic opportunities.
• Incorporate feedback from stakeholders and end-users into the backlog, adjusting priorities as requirements and insights evolve.
• Break high-level requirements into detailed, implementable user stories that meet strong Agile standards and support workflows, automation, and decision support where applicable.
• Define clear acceptance criteria to ensure the team understands what “done” means for each feature.
• Partner with UX so backlog items include wireframes and UI designs for sprint planning, provide design feedback, participate in design sprints, and support user acceptance testing.
• Participate in sprint planning to select stories and tasks and ensure the team has a clear understanding of scope.
• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to plan and prioritize releases aligned to market needs and business goals.
• Support sprint review outcomes by accepting or rejecting work to help maintain quality standards.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks; partner with the release manager on timelines, escalation, mitigation strategies, and transparent communication to leadership.
• Assist in developing and presenting business cases for new features and initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations.
• Define KPIs and measures for features and capabilities to track impact and inform decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with Product and Development tools such as ADO and Jira (or similar)
• 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, using data and metrics to validate 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 industry, market trends, and customer needs
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong collaboration skills across Engineering, UI/UX, Product Management, leadership, and internal or external stakeholders
• Travel up to 30%

Technologies: ADO, Jira, HL7, FHIR