Senior Product Owner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and oversee the team backlog, ensuring alignment with product priorities and desired outcomes.

• Convert features into user stories that include acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, and success metrics.

• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, and various Agile ceremonies.

• Manage scope decisions during sprints, including trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and constraints.

• Guarantee timely, high-quality delivery throughout sprints and releases.

• Collaborate with Product Managers on executing roadmaps and developing business cases.

• Work alongside Engineering, QA, UX, Platform, Solution Leads, and business stakeholders.

• Coordinate dependencies and alignment between teams and act as an escalation point for delivery teams.

• Integrate customer feedback through UX research and usability studies.

• Confirm measurable feature value and assist in value tracking.

• Offer insights on solution design, technical trade-offs, timelines, and alternative approaches.

• Support validation, governance, release readiness, and consistency in configuration.

• Engage in PI planning and scaled Agile activities.

• Foster continuous improvement and provide mentorship to junior Product Owners as needed.

• Acquire high-level work estimates for Phase A and Phase B.

• Prioritize the ART Backlog and outline objectives for Program Increments.

• Assist in defining customer journey, process flow, epic, feature, and work estimation for Phase B approval.

• Facilitate software selection to meet the product requirements.

• Act as the primary escalation contact for Delivery Product Owners in the ART.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• Bachelor’s degree along with 5+ years of relevant work experience.

• Over 5 years of experience employing Agile methodologies in a Product Owner capacity.

• More than 5 years in Product Owner or Agile delivery roles.

• Experience working with cross-functional Agile teams utilizing Scrum or SAFe.

• Proven experience managing complex products or dependencies.

• Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms.

• Strong preference for knowledge in IT systems development.

• Understanding of software development technologies is beneficial.

• Experience in developing medical devices and/or other highly regulated products is a plus.

• Background in regulated environments and/or digital/CRM platforms preferred.

• Excellent communication skills suitable for diverse technical audiences.

• Capability to convert business needs into actionable delivery plans.

• Proficient in prioritizing and managing multiple workstreams.

• Ability to influence others without direct authority.

• Strong problem-solving, organizational, verbal, and written communication abilities.

• Capacity to work independently with minimal supervision.

• Proactive in stakeholder communication.

• Detail-oriented with the capacity to assess multiple priorities.

• Adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

• Willingness to travel within the US as needed, at least once per quarter.

• Experience with insulin pump development is an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Options for remote or hybrid work arrangements.

• Fully remote working arrangements; ability to work from home/virtually 100% of the time.

• Hybrid on-site/virtual work available as desired.

• Emphasis on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

• A culture that promotes curiosity, innovation, and continuous learning.

• Employees are equipped and supported to meet customer needs.