Job Summary:
The Senior Product Owner is responsible for guiding the development and delivery of product features across the entire product lifecycle. They act as a bridge between the business stakeholders and the development team, ensuring that the product meets customer needs and delivers value.
Key Responsibilities:
Translation: Work with stakeholders to translate future vision and requirements into clearly broken-down epics and stories. Ensure that all team members understand and align with the product's goals. Prioritization: Create and maintain the product backlog, a prioritized list of features, user stories, and tasks. Prioritize items based on business value, customer needs, and market trends. User Story Development: Break down high-level product requirements into detailed user stories that can be understood and implemented by the development team. Ensure these stories are ready for implementation and meet strong agile/SAFE standards. Backlog Management: Continuously groom and refine the product backlog, adjusting based on feedback, changing priorities, and new insights. Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary point of contact between the development team and stakeholders. Communicate progress, changes, and updates regularly to both groups. Business Case Support: Assist in developing and presenting business cases for new product features and initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations Acceptance Criteria: Define acceptance criteria for user stories to ensure that the development team understands what constitutes a complete and well-implemented feature. Sprint Planning: Participate in sprint planning meetings to select user stories and tasks for the upcoming sprint. Work with the team to ensure they have a clear understanding of the work to be done. Release Planning: Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to plan and prioritize releases, considering market needs and business goals. Quality Assurance: Ensure the product meets quality standards by accepting or rejecting the work done by the development team during sprint reviews. Feedback Integration: Gather feedback from stakeholders and end-users, incorporate it into the product backlog, and adjust as necessary. Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks that could impact product development or delivery. This includes working closely with your release manager to ensure timelines are met, tough conversations are had, mitigation strategies are put into place, and transparency is taken to leadership for assistance when needed. UI/UX alignment: work with your UX counterpart to ensure new features in the backlog have wireframes and UI designs ready to go as a critical step in sprint planning. This includes providing feedback on the designs and working with the UI team on design sprints as well as user acceptance testing. Data Driven: Define KPIs and measures for the features and capabilities Work with one or more Agile Development Teams and Act as a central reference and information source, providing guidance and assistance in the system product and functionality decision-making process. Entrepreneurial spirit, with track record for delivering results in fast-moving and demanding environments
Required Skills & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., business, computer science) or equivalent work experience. 3 to 5 years of experience in Product Management or as a Product Owner in Agile environment Experience with Product and Development tools such as ADO, Jira or other similar tools. Technical expertise and experience with Data, API integrations, HL7 and FHIR Interoperability standards Strong analytical and quantitative skills with ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions evaluate outcomes Leadership and decision-making skills Understanding of the industry, market trends, and customer needs Strong organizational and time management skills Strong collaboration with Engineering, UI/UX, Product Management, leadership, and internal/external stakeholders Preferred experience with AI enabled product development Preferred Certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Excellent communication and presentation abilities
The 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.
About Fortive
Fortive is a provider of essential technologies for connected workflow solutions across a range of attractive end-markets. We hold leading positions in advanced healthcare solutions, intelligent operating solutions, and precision technologies. Our company is headquartered in Everett, Washington and employs a team of more than 17,000 research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, service, and administrative employees in more than 50 countries around the world.
Our shared purpose is to create essential technology for the people who accelerate progress. Our innovations keep the world moving forward. We work together to accelerate the pace of progress and to make a difference.
About Provation:
Provation is a leading provider of healthcare software and SaaS solutions for clinical productivity, care coordination, quality reporting, and billing. Our purpose is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. Provation’s comprehensive portfolio spans the entire patient encounter, from pre-procedure through post-procedure, with solutions for physician and nursing documentation (Provation® MD, Provation® Apex, MD-Reports, Provation® endoPRO®, and Provation® MultiCaregiver), anesthesia documentation (#1 Best in KLAS Provation® iPro), patient engagement, surgical care coordination, quality reporting, and billing capture (Provation® SurgicalValet™), order set and care plan management (Provation® Order Set Advisor™ and Provation® Care Plans), and EHR embedded clinical documentation (Provation® Clinic Note). Provation has a loyal customer base, serving more than 5,000 hospitals, surgery centers, and medical offices, and 700 physician groups globally, including 19 of the top 20 U.S. hospitals. In 2021, Provation was acquired by Fortive Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company that builds essential technology and accelerates transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, engineering, and healthcare. For more information about our solutions, visit provationmedical.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Our purpose at Provation is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. To deliver on this commitment, we’re guided by our core values –
Provation has a culture of CARES:
Community -We have a shared sense of improving healthcare, enriching the broader world we live in and serve. Accountability - We own it and get it done with integrity. Respect - We build diverse teams that collaborate and communicate with positive intent and trust. Excellence - We welcome new ideas as we innovate quality solutions. Service - We are passionate about putting customers first.
The Fortive Promise - For you. For us. For growth.
We believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow and make an impact. And we believe in giving you the opportunity, accountability, and visibility to do just that. We believe in us. We believe in the power of great people working together to innovate and solve problems no one could solve alone. We build enduring partnerships with our customers and take on their challenges and opportunities as our own. We believe in growth. We are honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we work hard to innovate and improve. With a passionate focus on our markets and our customers, we learn and grow together to make a difference in the world.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by most people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities and requirements.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.