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About the Role
The Product Owner defines product direction and development priorities to support NMDP’s mission to save lives through cellular therapy. This role partners closely with Product Managers, stakeholders, and customers to understand needs and ensure the most valuable work is delivered, acting as a bridge between business and technology.
Responsibilities
- Partners with the Product Management team to set development priorities, define strategic initiatives, and manage the portfolio backlog.
- Collaborates with stakeholders and customers to gather and validate problems, needs, and jobs to be done.
- Manages iterative and incremental delivery of value by ensuring prioritization of the most impactful features and enhancements.
- Owns delivery of planned and unplanned work while continuously evaluating business value and trade-offs.
- Leads backlog refinement and prioritization based on operational, market, and user data.
- Drives planning and release activities, setting clear expectations for delivery timelines and functionality.
- Maintains a strong cadence of delivery through active participation in team ceremonies.
- Communicates delivery progress and status updates consistently across teams and stakeholders.
- Engages proactively with stakeholders, responding promptly to inquiries and making decisions that maintain delivery velocity.
- Maintains a deep understanding of business processes and customer needs, while remaining open to new pathways and emerging technologies.
- Translates product strategy into actionable tasks, ensuring clearly articulated user stories that align to the overall product vision.
- Communicates the product vision to the development team.
- Writes and maintains clear, complete, testable user stories with explicit acceptance criteria.
- Uses team capacity and historical velocity to support realistic sprint planning and forecast delivery.
- Reviews completed work against acceptance criteria and supports timely acceptance decisions.
Requirements
- Works within Scrum and other Agile methodologies to drive highly successful, collaborative teams.
- Communicates effectively with excellent written and verbal skills, translating business and technology concepts for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Maintains a customer-first focus with a strong knowledge of functional and business areas.
- Demonstrates a strong personal work ethic, committed to quality, continual improvement, and delivering excellent customer service.
- Operates with a growth mindset—eager to learn, test new ideas, and pivot quickly when needed.
- Solves complex problems and makes sound decisions, even in the face of ambiguity, risk, and uncertainty.
- Readily takes initiative with a relentless focus on forward progress.
- Manages multiple priorities with skillful negotiation, delegation, and conflict resolution.
- Highly collaborative and action-oriented, driving results through rapid cycles of test and learn.
- Maintains confidentiality in handling sensitive information and records.
- Understands connections across multiple applications in a federated enterprise architecture.
- Accommodates infrequent travel and as required, works extended hours to meet deadlines or support after-hours product releases.
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Customer needs analysis
- Problem-solving
- Decision-making
- Prioritization
- Negotiation
- Delegation
- Conflict resolution
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Two years previous experience as a product owner or related role
- Four years’ experience with defining and prioritizing requirements in an Agile environment
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering or another related field preferred
- Equivalent related experience and/or education may be substituted for degree requirement
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life and disability
- Accident/critical illness/hospital
- Well-being
- Legal
- Identity theft
- Pet benefits
- Retirement
- Paid time off/holidays
- Leave plans
- Incentive plans
About the Company
- NMDP's mission is to save lives through cellular therapy.