Digital Technical Product Owner

inspiremedicalsystemsinc; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

excellent benefits

401k matching

ESPP

flexible time off (FTO)

tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Inspire Medical Systems is seeking a Digital Technical Product Owner to maximize value delivered by one or more agile product teams. You will translate priorities into a clear backlog, ensure readiness, and partner daily with engineering, regulatory, cybersecurity, data, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure digital capabilities.

As part of a cross‑functional team, you will own backlog sequencing, acceptance criteria, and delivery readiness, balancing new features with technical

Responsibilities

• Own, order, and continuously refine the team backlog to maximize value and support product outcomes, roadmap priorities, quality needs, technical sustainability, and operational commitments.
• Translate product goals, user needs, business rules, regulatory needs, and technical constraints into well-defined backlog items, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting context.
• Ensure backlog items are understood, sliced, sequenced, and ready for delivery; collaborate with the team rather than authoring requirements in isolation.
• Make timely day-to-day priority, scope, and clarification decisions within established product direction and decision rights.
• Balance new capabilities, defects, technical debt, cybersecurity, quality, compliance, maintenance, and operational work using transparent priorities.
• Accept or reject completed work against agreed acceptance criteria and confirm that delivered capabilities support the intended outcome.
• Provide the cross‑functional team with clear product context, sprint goals, priorities, and rapid clarification during delivery.
• Participate in planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other team activities; partner with the Scrum Master on flow and team effectiveness.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, testing, systems, architecture, data, and quality partners to identify dependencies, resolve ambiguity, and reduce delivery risk.
• Protect team focus by managing intake, triaging urgent requests and defects, and making trade‑offs visible to the Product Manager and stakeholders.
• Coordinate priorities and dependencies across teams while maintaining one transparent source of truth for committed and upcoming work.
• Support release planning, readiness, validation, deployment, and post‑release monitoring.
• Represent user and customer needs at the team level and ensure work remains connected to the problem, outcome, and product strategy.
• Partner with the Product Manager and design or research partners in discovery, solution validation, and translation of learning into delivery‑ready work.
• Gather feedback from users, stakeholders, support channels, analytics, and product operations to inform backlog decisions and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate completed capabilities and clearly communicate delivered value, open decisions, risks, and next steps.
• Embed quality, regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, accessibility, clinical, safety, and data requirements into backlog items and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain traceability and support product development records, reviews, approvals, and change controls within the quality management system.
• Partner with team members to ensure nonfunctional requirements such as reliability, performance, observability, security, supportability, and maintainability are considered.
• Support defect triage and post‑market improvements as a

Job description

ABOUT INSPIRE MEDICAL SYSTEMS

Inspire is the first of its kind medical device designed to make a difference in the lives of those living with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). We are revolutionizing the sleep industry with our FDA-approved medical device, designed to reduce OSA severity for those who cannot tolerate or get consistent benefit from CPAP. Inspire Medical Systems is committed to enhancing patients' lives through sleep innovation. We are steadfast in our commitment to prioritize patient outcomes, act with integrity and lead with respect. With positive persistence at our core, we are committed to all those we serve.

WHY JOIN OUR FAST-GROWING TEAM

At Inspire, we value people - your diverse experiences, backgrounds, and thoughts. We elevate voices and encourage learning opportunities to build a professional network that grows into community.

We embrace a people-first culture by offering excellent benefits, 401k matching, ESPP, flexible time off (FTO), and tuition reimbursement.

• excellent benefits
• 401k matching
• ESPP
• flexible time off (FTO)
• tuition reimbursement

If you're passionate about making a difference in people's lives and want to work with innovative technology, come be a part of our great team!

POSITION SUMMARY

The Digital Technical Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value delivered by one or more agile product teams. Working from the product strategy and outcomes established with the Product Manager and broader product team and stakeholders, the Technical Product Owner translates priorities into a clear, actionable backlog; ensures work is ready and understood; makes timely team-level decisions; and validates that completed work meets agreed acceptance criteria. The role partners daily with, engineering, systems, architecture, quality, regulatory, cybersecurity, privacy, data, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, , reliable, secure, and compliant digital capabilities.

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Backlog ownership and value delivery

• Own, order, and continuously refine the team backlog to maximize value and support product outcomes, roadmap priorities, quality needs, technical sustainability, and operational commitments.
• Translate product goals, user needs, business rules, regulatory needs, and technical constraints into well-defined backlog items, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting context.
• Ensure backlog items are appropriately understood, sliced, sequenced, and ready for delivery; collaborate with the team rather than authoring requirements in isolation.
• Make timely day-to-day priority, scope, and clarification decisions within established product direction and decision rights.
• Balance new capabilities, defects, technical debt, cybersecurity, quality, compliance, maintenance, and operational work using transparent priorities.
• Accept or reject completed work against agreed acceptance criteria and confirm that delivered capabilities support the intended outcome.

Agile team partnership

• Provide the cross‑functional team with clear product context, sprint or iteration goals, priorities, and rapid clarification during delivery.
• Participate actively in planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other team activities; partner with the Scrum Master or delivery lead on flow and team effectiveness.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, testing, systems, architecture, data, and quality partners to identify dependencies, resolve ambiguity, and reduce delivery risk.
• Protect team focus by managing intake, triaging urgent requests and defects, and making trade‑offs visible to the Product Manager and stakeholders.
• Coordinate priorities and dependencies across teams while maintaining one transparent source of truth for committed and upcoming work.
• Support release planning, readiness, validation, deployment, and post‑release monitoring.

User and stakeholder collaboration

• Represent user and customer needs at the team level and ensure work remains connected to the problem, expected outcome, and product strategy.
• Partner with the Product Manager and design or research partners in discovery, solution validation, and the translation of learning into delivery‑ready work.
• Gather feedback from users, stakeholders, support channels, analytics, and product operations to inform backlog decisions and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate completed capabilities and clearly communicate delivered value, open decisions, risks, and next steps.

Quality, risk, and operational excellence

• Embed applicable quality, regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, accessibility, clinical, safety, and data requirements into backlog items and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain traceability and support required product development records, reviews, approvals, and change controls within the quality management system.
• Partner with team members to ensure nonfunctional requirements such as reliability, performance, observability, security, supportability, and maintainability are considered.
• Support defect triage and post‑market improvements as a