Product Owner

Backlog Management & Story Elaboration

• Collaborate with the primary Product Owner and business analysts to translate high-level product epics, clinical requirements, and roadmap objectives into actionable, testable user stories.
• Define clear, unambiguous acceptance criteria (using Gherkin/BDD scenarios where applicable) covering positive paths, exception handling, and edge cases.
• Maintain, groom, and prioritize the sprint backlog to guarantee that the agile development team consistently has well-defined work for upcoming sprints.
• Participate actively in Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, and Retrospectives.

Clinical & Functional Domain Translation

• Provide daily, on-the-ground functional direction and hospital domain context to software engineers, system architects, and QA teams.
• Translate intricate inpatient, outpatient, and administrative hospital workflows into software functional logic (e.g., patient admission/discharge/transfer [ADT], order entry, clinical documentation, billing, bed management, and pharmacy/medication flows).
• Address real-time day-to-day requirements queries and blockers raised by the scrum team, escalating critical architectural or scope shifts to the primary Product Owner.

Interoperability & Regulatory Alignment

• Ensure stories account for essential healthcare data standards and interoperability requirements (e.g., HL7 v2/v3, FHIR, DICOM, and IHE profiles).
• Safeguard patient privacy and healthcare regulatory standards within functional definitions (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, MDR, local hospital data compliance).
• Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure clinical workflows minimize friction for physicians, nursing staff, and administrative personnel.

Acceptance & Quality Governance

• Validate user story implementations against accepted criteria throughout the sprint lifecycle, participating in internal sprint demonstrations.
• Sign off on completed stories on behalf of or in coordination with the onshore Product Owner before release packaging.
• Assist Quality Assurance (QA) teams in formulating end-to-end clinical test scenarios, user journey simulations, and regression suites.
• Assist in user documentation, feature release notes, and operational training enablement for support teams.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Informatics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Nursing/Medicine, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Experience: 1. 12-15+ years of professional experience in an Agile environment as a Product Owner, Proxy PO, Business Analyst, or Functional Consultant.
• Domain Knowledge: 1. Solid understanding of core hospital clinical and administrative processes: Patient Management (ADT), Electronic Medical Records (EMR/EHR), Laboratory/Radiology orders, Pharmacy/Medication Management, Nursing workflows, and Medical Billing. 2. Familiarity with healthcare standards such as HL7, FHIR, and terminology systems (e.g., ICD-10, SNOMED CT, LOINC).
• Agile Competencies: 1. Practical expertise with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe). 2. Hands-on proficiency with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).

Preferred Skills & Competencies

• Recognized agile certification: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), or SAFe POPM.
• iMED product domain expertise
• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to bridge gaps between business/clinical terminologies and engineering logic.
• High proficiency in working across distributed, global cross-functional teams (e.g., onshore product management and offshore software development).
• Detail-oriented analytical problem solver capable of untangling complex hospital edge cases, multi-department handoffs, and workflow dependencies.