Product Owner EMPI

Abacus Insights is a mission-driven, growth-stage technology company focused on transforming the healthcare industry, ultimately creating a more personalized patient experience, improving health outcomes, and lowering the overall cost of healthcare. Abacus Insights provides a flexible, efficient, and secure platform that organizes and exchanges healthcare data from various sources and formats. Our platform allows our customers to uncover differentiated insights that address their client's needs. In addition, our employees know they play an active role in keeping our customers' data safe and are responsible for ensuring that our comprehensive policies and practices are met.

With our deep expertise in cloud-enabled technologies and knowledge of the healthcare industry, we have built an innovative data integration and management platform that allows healthcare payers access to historically siloed and inaccessible data. Through our platform, these healthcare organizations can ingest and manage all the data they need to transform their business by supporting their analytical, operational, and financial needs.

Since our founding in 2017, Abacus has built a highly successful SaaS business, raising $100 Million from leading VC firms with deep expertise in the healthcare and technology industries. We are solving problems of massive scale and complexity in a sector ready for disruption. We're growing quickly and would love for you to be a part of it

About The Role
As a member of Abacus Platform Product Management team, you will play a pivotal role in bringing to market a cutting-edge cloud data platform with industry leading data usability capabilities for Healthcare Payors. Our solutions enable clients to turn vast and diverse data into insights that drive improved outcomes and enable a wide range of internal and compliance workflows. As a Product Owner, you will work directly with a Platform Engineering team with focus on MDM and EMPI solutions, healthcare interoperability message processing, and general platform enhancements. This role demands a strong foundation in software development and data engineering to effectively translate high-level product visions and customer needs into precise requirements. At Abacus, you will have the unique opportunity to work alongside engineering and stakeholders across the organization, prioritizing your backlog to align with Objectives and Key Results (OKR) and immediate customer needs. If you love data, excel in managing competing priorities and directing your development team to deliver features with maximum ROI for clients and organization, we want you on our team

You Will

• Lead the development and integration of MDM and EMPI solutions, ensuring accurate, consistent patient data across healthcare systems.
• Enhance and expand Abacus Platform capabilities in healthcare interoperability (FHIR, X12, HL7 V2) for versatile data integration and patient care.
• Drive cloud-native enhancements to align Abacus with customers' cloud journeys.
• Act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and the development team, translating strategic goals into product features and crafting effective Epics and User Stories.
• Own the complete lifecycle of your products and features, from ideation to launch.
• Maintain a transparent, prioritized backlog to ensure efficient development.
• Champion Agile practices to support SDLC, providing guidance and insights to the development team.
• Collaborate with product peers to evaluate value delivery, identifying improvement areas.
• Communicate updates and insights to leadership and broader audiences.
• Ensure the development team accurately estimates task complexity and effort.
• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to align developments with customer needs.
• Coordinate product development with client deployment for seamless implementation.
• Work with client management to optimize product impact.

What We're Looking For

• Passion for Product Ownership and Healthcare IT, with:
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for translating business needs into Epics and User Stories.
• Experience in release coordination and acceptance testing.
• Hands-on Agile product ownership with proven results.
• Expertise in MDM and EMPI solutions.
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards (HL7 V2, FHIR, X12).
• Experience shipping SaaS products.
• Understanding of data platform R&D and comfort in technical environments.
• Tactical and strategic thinking skills to inspire and lead.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of relevant PO experience.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, or related fields, or equivalent experience.

Bonus Points

• Experience in the US Healthcare Payor or Provider industry.
• Expertise in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficiency in database concepts/tools (preferably Databricks, Snowflake).
• Experience with big data, ETL, data pipelines, security, privacy, DevOps, or automation.

Equal Opportunity Employer
As a mission-led technology company that is helping to drive better healthcare outcomes, Abacus Insights believes that the best innovation and value we can bring to our customers comes from diverse ideas, thoughts, experiences, and perspectives. Therefore, we proudly dedicate extensive time and resources to building diverse teams and providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants. Abacus prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regarding race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.