Job Description
Role: Product Owner
Duration: 6 months - potential to hire
Location: Hybrid in Bloomington, MN (occasional onsite time, mostly remote)
Rate: Between $60.87 to $70.33/hour W2, flexible depending on skills and qualifications
Position Overview
We are seeking a Product Owner to support a strategic, long-term modernization effort focused on a homegrown provider data ecosystem within a healthcare organization. This role will partner closely with an existing, business-facing Product Owner and lead the prioritization and delivery of enhancements to a critical provider data platform, including deeper integration with a maturing enterprise data lake environment.
This is a highly collaborative role requiring strong product ownership fundamentals, the ability to balance competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups, and a focus on delivering data-driven solutions that support provider operations, contracting, and downstream business functions.
Required Qualifications
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5+ years of experience in a Product Owner, Product Manager, or equivalent Agile role
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Proven experience managing product backlogs and driving sprint prioritization
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Experience with healthcare data, particularly provider data systems
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Experience working on data-centric products or platforms
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Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery practices
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Ability to manage complex stakeholder environments and balance competing priorities
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Strong communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills
Preferred Qualifications
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Familiarity with provider contracting, payer/provider networks, or related healthcare domains
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Experience working with data lakes, data integration, or enterprise data platforms
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Background supporting system modernization or transformation initiatives
Key Responsibilities
Product Ownership & Delivery
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Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring work is clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned to business value
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Determine sprint scope and priorities, balancing inputs from multiple business and technical stakeholders
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Define and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements in partnership with Business Analysts
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Partner with development teams to ensure high-quality, timely delivery across releases
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Support Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
Product Strategy & Modernization
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Contribute to the ongoing modernization of a legacy provider data platform, including decomposition of existing systems and adoption of modern technologies
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Help evolve product capabilities to better leverage and integrate with the enterprise data lake
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Support data distribution and integration patterns (data flowing into and out of the data lake across the organization)
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Ensure product decisions align with long-term data strategy and organizational goals
Stakeholder Management & Alignment
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Serve as a key liaison across multiple stakeholder groups, including:
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Provider system management
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Provider relations and contracting teams
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Data operations and analytics teams
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Balance competing priorities and perspectives from 3–4 primary stakeholder groups
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Facilitate discussions, resolve conflicts, and drive alignment on product direction
Team Collaboration
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Work closely with an established product team, including:
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3 Business Analysts supporting requirements and story development
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Development team (Tech Lead, engineers, QA)
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UX resources
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Partner with a current Product Owner to ensure continuity and alignment across business and technical priorities
