Sr. Product Owner

The Sr Product Owner plays a critical role in ensuring that a product or feature is developed with a focus on delivering value to the customer and the business. They act as a voice for the customer and are responsible for making key product-related decisions throughout the development process, including identifying opportunities to incorporate emerging technologies, such as AI-enabled capabilities, where they can improve user experience, workflow efficiency, and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Product Vision & Stakeholder Alignment

Translation: Work with stakeholders to translate future vision and requirements into clearly broken-down epics and stories; ensure all team members understand and align with product goals, including consideration of emerging technologies where appropriate.

• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary point of contact between the development team and stakeholders; communicate progress, changes, and updates regularly.
• Team Enabler: Work with one or more Agile Development Teams and act as a central reference and information source, guiding system/product functionality decisions.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Demonstrate a track record of delivering results in fast-moving, demanding environments.

1. Backlog Ownership & Prioritization

• Prioritization: Create and maintain the product backlog; prioritize features, user stories, and tasks based on business value, customer needs, market trends, and strategic opportunities.
• Backlog Management: Continuously groom and refine the backlog based on feedback, changing priorities, and new insights.
• Feedback Integration: Gather and incorporate feedback from stakeholders and end-users into the backlog; adjust as necessary.

1. Requirements & Customer Experience (UX)

• User Story Development: Break down high-level requirements into detailed, implementable user stories that meet strong Agile standards and support effective workflows, automation, and decision support where applicable.
• Acceptance Criteria: Define clear acceptance criteria so the team understands what constitutes “done” for each feature.
• UI/UX Alignment: Partner with UX to ensure backlog items have wireframes and UI designs ready for sprint planning; provide design feedback, participate in design sprints, and support user acceptance testing.

1. Planning, Delivery & Risk

• Sprint Planning: Participate in sprint planning to select stories and tasks; ensure the team has a clear understanding of work scope.
• Release Planning: Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to plan and prioritize releases aligned with market needs and business goals.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure the product meets quality standards by accepting or rejecting work during sprint reviews.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate delivery risks; partner with the release manager on timelines, tough conversations, mitigation strategies, and transparent escalation to leadership.

1. Business Outcomes & Data

• Business Case Support: Assist in developing and presenting business cases for new features and initiatives; ensure alignment with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations.
• Data-Driven: Define KPIs and measures for features and capabilities to track impact and inform decisions.

Required Qualifications:

Education & Experience Guidelines

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with Product and Development tools such as ADO, Jira or other similar tools.
• Healthcare and technical expertise are highly preferred, including experience with data, API integrations, and interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, evaluate outcomes, and assess opportunities related to emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, where applicable.
• Leadership and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Understanding of the industry, market trends, and customer needs
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, UI/UX, Product Management, leadership, and internal and external stakeholders.
• Travel up to 30%

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact. 

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference. 

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone. 

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.