Product Owner

Avenga; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Avenga is seeking a Product Owner who brings deep oncology domain understanding to translate clinical needs into a prioritized product backlog. You will work closely with clinicians, developers, and IT to refine requirements and drive delivery of patient-centered software.

You will lead by example in SAFe environments, align roadmaps with clinical goals, and communicate effectively across multidisciplinary teams to ensure outcomes that improve cancer care delivery.

Qualifications

• Direct experience with oncology care delivery or related clinical specialty in a hospital, cancer center, or software-for-clinical use.
• Ability to articulate the end-to-end oncology patient journey from referral to follow-up.
• Understanding of how hospitals operate and what clinicians need in tools.
• Familiarity with EMR/EHR, pathology/radiology reports, and biomarker testing data.
• Skills to hold conversations with oncologists, pathologists, nurses, and IT as a peer.
• Know-how of regulatory and quality frameworks for clinical software.

Responsibilities

• Translate clinical needs into a prioritized, well-scoped backlog with input from architecture, security, and UX.
• Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements for delivery.
• Work in agile at scale (SAFe) to align with program increments.
• Operate fluently in Jira and Confluence to manage work artifacts.
• Run demos of working software and advocate for the user perspective in development.
• Negotiate, prioritize, and say no to work that doesn’t deliver clinical or business value.
• Lead the definition phase to prepare the delivery backlog and PI planning.
• Support the Business Product Manager with customer feedback and discovery backlog.
• Collaborate with product management to prepare feature backlogs for the next train.
• Share early feedback with the development team to align with PI objectives.
• Keep the backlog focused on high-value items and evidence-based prioritization.

Skills

Oncology domain

Clinical stakeholder communication

Backlog prioritization

SAFe / Agile at scale

Jira & Confluence

Discovery sessions with clinicians

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements writing

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Avenga is an international engineering firm helping businesses operate with AI at the core. With 6,000+ experts worldwide, we combine engineering expertise with AI-native thinking to turn ambitious ideas into real-world impact across industries, technologies, and markets.

At the core of the role

We are looking for Product Owner. The Product Owner is the member of the agile team who acts as the voice of the customer. In this role, that customer is a clinician. You contribute to the vision and roadmap, communicate it clearly to the team, accept stories, and continuously refine and prioritize the team backlog. What makes this role different from a general Product Owner position is the depth of clinical understanding we expect you to bring to every one of those activities.

What we look for first: clinical domain depth

Core skills you’ll bring

• Direct experience in oncology care delivery, or in a closely adjacent clinical specialty, gained in a hospital, cancer center, clinical network, or a company building software used at the point of care.

• A working model of the oncology patient journey end to end: referral and intake, diagnostic workup, staging and biomarker testing, multidisciplinary team discussion, treatment decision, treatment delivery, follow up and surveillance. You can explain where time is lost, where information goes missing, and where decisions are actually made.

• Practical understanding of how a hospital runs: who does what in a care team, how a clinician's day is structured, what competes for their attention, and why well designed tools still fail to get adopted.

• Familiarity with the clinical data landscape: EMR and EHR systems, pathology and radiology reporting, genomic and biomarker reports, and the real limits of interoperability (HL7 v2, FHIR, DICOM).

• The ability to hold a conversation with oncologists, pathologists, nurses, and hospital IT as a peer. You can run a discovery session with a clinician, follow the clinical reasoning, push back when something does not add up, and return with requirements that reflect what they meant rather than what they said.

• Awareness of the regulatory and quality frame that clinical software operates in (medical device software, clinical safety, patient data protection) and what it means for how we specify, evidence, and release a change.

• You are motivated by improving how cancer care is delivered, and you can explain concretely what that means.

• You lead by moving things forward and making sure commitments land.

• You question established norms and practices when they stand in the way of the outcome.

• You stay focused on results aligned with the strategic vision.

• You manage stakeholders well and guide a process to a decision.

• You communicate and negotiate clearly, in writing and in the room.

• You have a strong desire to understand global customer needs, and you go and look rather than assume.

The impact you'll create

• Translating clinical needs into a prioritized, correctly scoped team backlog, with input from architecture, security, and UX.

• Writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements that a team can build from without guessing.

• Working in agile at scale. We run SAFe. If you bring the clinical depth and have not worked in SAFe before, we will get you there.

• Working fluently in Atlassian tooling (Jira, Confluence).

• Running demos of working software and speaking to the development team from the user's perspective.

• Analytical and negotiation skills, and the judgment to say no to work that does not earn its place.

• A background in software development is a plus.

• Lead the definition phase to build the delivery backlog.

• Lead refinement with the development team to plan the delivery of value across sprints and iterations.

• Support the Business Product Manager in processing customer requests and prioritizing the discovery backlog.

• Contribute, as part of the Product Management team, to preparing the feature and enabler backlog so the train is ready for the next Program Increment.

• Socialize incoming features and enablers with the development team early, to surface feedback and align with PI objectives.

• Keep the prepared backlog focused on items that maximize clinical and business value while minimizing cost.

• Bring clinical evidence into prioritization: real user observation, clinician feedback, and usage data rather than assertion.

• Learn and fully understand all functionality of the product, and manage its requirements baseline.

People are at the core of Avenga. We provide equal opportunities regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or any other characteristic. We are committed to a respectful environment where everyone can be themselves, share their ideas, and feel that they belong.