Product Owner

**Job Description Summary**: In this role you will be responsible for working in lock-step with Product Managers and Software Development teams to deliver Ultrasound digital ecosystem solutions that extend and enhance the customer experience across the entire Ultrasound device portfolio. You'll be owning the product backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners and Developers.

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

**Role and Responsibilities**
- Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.
- Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements-gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
- Works with cross-functional teams to deliver features and significant products.
- Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
- Routinely collaborates with UX in design decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
- Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
- Owns the releases and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
- Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
- Prioritizes continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
- Demonstrates strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
- Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
- Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work unit.
- Partners with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process.
- Mentors junior team members.
- Expert in Agile Methodology

**Education Qualification**
- Bachelor's Degree in STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with 7+ years of professional experience OR Master’s with 5+ years of experience in Software/Technology role

**Technical Expertise**
- Prior experience with building analytics products and exposure to IoT solutions
- Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Familiarity with versatile implementation options

**Desired Characterstics**
- Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
- Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
- Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
- Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts

**Inclusion and Diversity**

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership - always with unyielding integrity.

Our **total rewards** are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:Yes