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

















