Technical Product Owner

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

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Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for a Technical Product Owner.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Responsibilities:

• Shape the squad vision / roadmap and steer the squad in delivering products / platforms features / work oriented around business impact

• Shape and prioritize backlog, utilizing business expertise and understanding of customer needs, translate requirements into user stories & acceptance criteria

• Balance business value with technical feasibility while prioritizing stories and features, optimizing cost and improving delivery efficiency

• Act as the “voice of the customer” within the squad to ensure the squad “builds the right thing”

• Plan resourcing for the squad (i.e. new role, change in role), create ASOE requests, interview, select and onboard members to join the squad

• Accountable for shaping and hitting squad OKRs

• Work closely with Product/Platform Manager to establish the products’ business value and support messaging, comms and customer outreach as necessary

• Ensure the products / features / work meets relevant security, privacy & compliance standards

• Drive continuous improvement across the product lifecycle

• Drive engagement with third parties to support delivery of squad objectives

• Drive selection of solution options, work with the Lead Engineer to assess tech elements of the solution prior to user testing

• Facilitate release planning, sprint planning and demos with stakeholders

• Interact with other Squads within the Product / Platform as part of synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-squad tasks

• Drive reporting and analytics to provide visibility on squad performance and monitor sprint metrics and user results

• Work with Lead Engineer to balance tech debt with feature delivery

• Own and manage documentation and information

• Collaborate to ensure all partners are clear on product roadmap activities, design, interdependencies and timelines

• Actively participate in all squad ceremonies; leads and optimizes the flow of value using various tools

Key Skills

Domain Expertise

• 7+ years relevant work experience

• Bachelors degree in IT or Business Management

• Proven knowledge and understanding of standard practices, technology and supporting industry principles

• Experience gathering requirements and translating into a product vision by leveraging their expertise in product development, engineering and UX

• Deep understanding of business/processes and high-level understanding of high-quality digital product delivery

• Experienced in managing a product backlog/release plan, tracking team level metrics, attend product team ceremonies, removing blockers (burndown chart, release burn up,

• Experienced in developing systems and tools to enable customer interactions and collaboration

Digital Expertise

• Understanding of customer journeys and customer experience

• Foundational skills (at minimum) in Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Intelligent Automation and Emerging Technology

Leadership Skills and Behaviors

• Creates a culture that relentlessly focuses on helping the people and organizations we touch

• Commitment to Our Credo, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (who we are and what we believe) by ensuring we are attracting, developing and retaining talent that reflect the communities our teams serve

• Equipped with foundational knowledge and methods to identify, engage, and build empathy with their customers, and apply these methods to their daily work

• Focuses on Business agility, Agile delivery with a fail-fast mindset, and measurable outcomes

• Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional self-organized teams

• Contributes ideas that challenge thinking

• Strong problem-solving skills with ability of accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $91,000 to $147,200.

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401k).This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year. Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year. Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year. Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year. For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: -  https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits This job posting is anticipated to close on November 1, 2025. The Company may however extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available on https://www.careers.jnj.com to accept additional applications.