Product Owner

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Product Owner shaping NMDP’s cellular-therapy products through Agile backlog leadership. Translating customer needs into prioritized features, user stories, and high-quality releases.

Responsibilities:

  • Define product direction and development priorities supporting NMDP’s mission to save lives through cellular therapy
  • Maintain product backlog success, health, and readiness
  • Partner with Product Managers, stakeholders, customers, and Agile teams to understand needs and deliver valuable work
  • Set development priorities, define strategic initiatives, and manage the portfolio backlog
  • Gather and validate customer and stakeholder problems, needs, and jobs to be done
  • Prioritize impactful features and enhancements based on customer needs and business value
  • Own planned and unplanned work while evaluating trade-offs
  • Lead backlog refinement and prioritization using operational, market, and user data
  • Identify and validate hypotheses, assumptions, and risks to maximize ROI and business impact
  • Drive planning and release activities and maintain delivery cadence through sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives
  • Communicate delivery progress, sprint updates, and release status across teams and stakeholders
  • Mitigate impediments and support successful sprint and release outcomes
  • Translate product strategy into actionable tasks and user stories
  • Communicate product vision and business value to the development team
  • Write and maintain clear, complete, testable user stories with acceptance criteria, context, dependencies, and supporting details
  • Use team capacity and historical velocity for sprint planning, delivery forecasting, and scope or sequencing adjustments
  • Review completed work against acceptance criteria and support timely acceptance decisions

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering, or another related field preferred
  • Equivalent related experience and/or education may be substituted for the degree requirement upon evaluation
  • Two years of previous experience as a product owner or related role
  • Four years of experience defining and prioritizing requirements in an Agile environment
  • Experience working within Scrum and other Agile methodologies
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to translate business and technology concepts for technical and nontechnical audiences
  • Strong knowledge of functional and business areas
  • Ability to solve complex problems and make sound decisions amid ambiguity, risk, and uncertainty
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities through negotiation, delegation, and conflict resolution
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality when handling sensitive information and records
  • Understanding of connections across multiple applications in a federated enterprise architecture
  • Ability to accommodate infrequent travel
  • Ability to work extended hours as required to meet deadlines or support after-hours product releases
  • Experience working in a highly integrated technical environment preferred

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Life and disability benefits
  • Accident, critical illness, and hospital benefits
  • Well-being benefits
  • Legal benefits
  • Identity theft and pet benefits
  • Retirement plan
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Leave benefits
  • Incentive plans for eligible employees
  • Remote work arrangement