Job Description

Position Description: Vocera is currently looking for a Product Owner for our Product Management team that is ready to help drive the vision of our products and be the voice of our customer while ensuring our product team delivers on those customer needs. You will support agile delivery of product strategy as agreed upon by the Product Manager into clearly defined and prioritized features and user stories for Voceras (Product) that will be delivered to the development team. This position will report to a Product Management Group Lead.

Responsibilities
Prioritize and carry out Strategic Goals in collaboration with Product Management
Decompose Roadmap Epics/Features into user stories with Acceptance criteria for team backlog
Prioritize the user stories from backlog that meet customer needs and business goals, translate customer and clinical understanding (why) and technical requirements into action items for the development team
Lead efforts around prioritizing, defining, planning and executing user stories for Program Increment and iteration planning activities
Ensure team iteration goals align to PI Business Objectives
Collaborate with Product Manager for System Demo
Run the Team Demos and Participate in Retrospectives
Participate in escalations, bug scrubs and other daily and weekly team activities and lead real-time decision-making regarding team, story, bug prioritization
Competencies
Dedicated and customer oriented with the ability to act as customer proxy and work with Product Management, other Product Owners and development teams for short-term and long-term roadmap execution
Ability to manage the Program Backlog, refine, breakdown, and estimate stories with the development team
Excellent project management, problem-solving, and data-driven critical thinking skills
Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills; including the ability to present system demos and, communicate to key partners on product progress towards strategy and prioritized customer goals
Track record of working with dynamic cross-functional teams including engineering, operations, customer service, and senior product management
Proven record of leading teams through Program Increment Planning and Iteration Planning

Requirements
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or relevant field or equivalent

5 years experience in technology, software and/or medical devices, including 3 years as agile Product Owner

Ability to work both independently and in various team settings to assure alignment and prioritization to drive the Product Management Strategy

Experience in agile practice to ensure sprint work, user stories, backlog refinement and other agile frameworks are followed

Experience in a healthcare setting and/or an understanding of the US healthcare system is preferred

Working knowledge of HIPAA and PII use in healthcare IT systems is preferred

Experience working with SAFe based product development process, and Atlassian tools, as product owner is preferred

Certified SAFe 4/5 Product Owner preferred

Travel up to 15 PERCENT of the time

Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination required
Education: Any Graduate
Industry: IT-Hardware/Networking, Telecom

Skills Required