Technical Product Owner/Manager

Job Description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Job Description

We are looking for a skilled & driven Product Owner with a strong technical background and experience in the healthcare domain. The ideal candidate will lead the product /platform development efforts, ensuring seamless integration with LIS, EMR, and EHR systems, and compliance with healthcare regulations like HIPAA and GDPR. This role requires expertise in agile product management, backlog prioritization, and healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7, FHIR, and DICOM.

The Product Owner will serve as the bridge between technical teams, stakeholders, and end users to deliver impactful, innovative, and compliant healthcare solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities

- Collaborate with stakeholders & technical product managers to define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.

- Define and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs.

- Write clear, detailed user stories and define acceptance criteria for successful implementation.

- Work closely with cross functional stakeholders including regulatory & engineering teams - Development, QAs & DevOps to ensure technical feasibility and timely delivery of features.

- Ensure compliance with healthcare standards and regulations, including HIPAA and GDPR.

- Drive end-to-end integration with LIS, EMR, and EHR systems, ensuring interoperability through standards like HL7, FHIR, and DICOM.

- Leverage domain knowledge to address challenges in healthcare workflow automation, data sharing, and interoperability.

- Facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and PI planning.

- Act as the technical and functional subject matter expert for healthcare-related integration requirements.

- Lead SaMD-specific documentation: product requirements, risk assessments, validation records, user manuals, and regulatory submissions.

- Define and own the SaMD product roadmap, aligning with business goals, regulatory standards (e.g., ISO 13485, IEC 62304), and user needs.

- Ensure risk management and compliance through standards-based hazard analysis, cybersecurity evaluation, and regulatory alignment (e.g., FDA/EU MDR or GxP)

- Engage external vendors or legal manufacturers, aligning deliverables with internal standards and regulatory expectations.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering (Computer Science/IT) with 8+ years of experience in building healthcare related software products.

- Proven experience as a Product Owner in the healthcare domain - especially around SaMD - Software as-a Medical Device, & with LIS, EMR, and EHR integrations.

- Good technical expertise, with familiarity in APIs, data security, and interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM).

- SAFe Product Owners/Product Manager Certification, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or similar agile certification.

- Hands-on experience in working with teams using SAFe.

- Excellent skills in writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and managing product backlogs.

- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in an agile environment. (Business, Architects, POs, Devs, QAs and Executive leaderships)

- Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail in a fast-paced development lifecycle.

- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to bridge gaps between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Good understanding of healthcare compliance and data privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).

Why Join the AlgoSuite team at Roche

Our team is building the next generation platform called navify AlgoSuite, which makes the high medical value algorithms accessible to the hospitals, labs and healthcare professionals and in-turn helping large numbers of patients across the world. That is why we come to work every single day and commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100'000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let's build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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