Technical Product Owner

We are hiring a Technical Product Owner (Software) to take end-to-end ownership of the modernization of a medical-grade EHR system for radiology. In this role, you will sit at the heart of our engineering teams, planning, specifying and prioritizing both at strategic and operational levels and ensure that complex clinical, regulatory, and technical requirements are translated into high-quality, scalable software.

Your work will directly impact how radiologists, medical staff, and healthcare organizations work every day - with the clear goal of improving efficiency, reducing errors, and enabling better clinical outcomes.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys being deep in the details, understands software systems and interfaces and thrives in turning complex healthcare workflows into robust, usable products.

What we are currently working on

Carealytix is building the next generation of digital health platforms for chronic care and clinical workflows. One of our current major partnership projects in which we are acting as a service provider to another healthtech player is the technical modernization of an existing EHR system for radiology, including:

Redesigning application workflows into modern, user-centric software

Refactoring and extending existing systems

Integrating with hospital IT landscapes (HIS / RIS / PACS)

Ensuring compliance with ISO-27001, and GDPR

Creating a future-proof architecture for scalability and interoperability

Our product landscape ranges from mobile applications to complex backend systems, EHR integrations, and research-driven clinical software.

Your role at Carealytix

As Technical Product Owner, you will take ownership of one or more software components for our partner's radiology EHR platform and act as the primary interface between engineering, product management, clinical stakeholders and design.

You are responsible for ensuring that what we build is, Own the product backlog for your domain and ensure it is clear, prioritized, and ready for engineering

Translate clinical, operational, and regulatory requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and refinement-ready requirements

Work closely with software engineers across squads on implementation details, trade-offs, and feasibility

Support sprint planning, reviews, refinements, and releases

2. EHR & System Modernization

Drive the modernization of the market leading radiology EHR system by ensuring work is scoped into shippable increments

Coordinate with Architecture and Engineering on feasibility, sequencing, and technical constraints (APIs, data flows, interoperability concepts)

Balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability

3. Stakeholder & Interface Management

Act as the key interface, aligning Product Management, UX, Architecture and internal clinical stakeholders

Ensure solutions reflect real workflows and constraints

Drive day-to-day product decisions to avoid bottlenecks and keep delivery moving

4. Quality, Compliance & Release Readiness

Ensure product requirements and implementations align with:

ISO-27001 information security requirements

EU-MDR and GDPR obligations

Support documentation, traceability, and validation activities required for medical-grade software

Collaborate with QA and engineering on testing strategies and release readiness

Do you have experience in Test automation?, Full professional proficiency in English and German

Living in Germany, strong preference for in or around Karlsruhe

5-10 years of experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, or similar role in software development

Strong experience working closely with engineering teams in agile environments

Solid background in:

Requirements engineering

Backlog management

Translating complex domain knowledge into software requirements

Analytical, structured, and systems-oriented mindset, Experience with healthcare IT, EHR systems, or medical software

Familiarity with ISO-13485 / ISO-27001 driven development processes

Understanding of:

APIs and service-oriented architectures

Cloud infrastructure and containerized environments

Automated testing and CI/CD concepts

Experience working with clinical users (e.g., radiology, hospitals)

Release management experience

Aside from our total dedication to shipping robust healthcare software, we are committed to building the best workplace you will ever work at. You are our highest priority.

We celebrate and support diversity! We are committed to equal and unbiased employment opportunities, regardless of gender, place of origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, color and disabilities

Competitive compensation package

Employee benefits and perks: in particular, if you live in Germany access to a growing number of perks & benefits

Flexible homeoffice policy: fully hybrid working model, regular on-site team days & team events

30 days of paid vacation

Health support: we help wherever we can

Free-to-use annual personal development budget of 1,000 € each year in addition to agreed-upon courses, coachings, books and trainings

Regular fun stuff: annual events, team get-togethers and working from fun places