Sr. Software Product Owner

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Lead Software Product Owner to shape and govern critical genomics software products within a regulated CLIA laboratory environment. You’ll gather user needs, translate them into epics, and coordinate with clinical development, operations, QA, and engineering to drive delivery.

You will lead cross-functional teams, define roadmaps, and ensure documentation and validation align with SDLC and CSV requirements while upholding Abbott’s quality and compliance standards.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, develop, and recommend technical software solutions during the product lifecycle across conceptualization, product roadmap development, execution, and launch based on business goals and user needs.
• Proactively understand current business processes and conceptualize innovative solutions to create efficiencies.
• Drive and track execution of product strategy and roadmap by creating release plans and leading sprint grooming, planning, and delivery.
• Gather and define user needs and translate them into epics and a prioritized backlog of user stories with functional requirements for clinical genomics workflows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define, prioritize, and complete software product strategy and requirements.
• Produce flow diagrams, dataflow maps, wireframes, and prototypes to illustrate end-user use cases.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, requirement documentation, and user documentation for end-users and leadership.
• Maintain SDLC and CSV documentation and provide end-user support as needed.
• Uphold Abbott values and maintain regular attendance.

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Position Overview

The Lead Software Product Owner works in a highly dynamic environment, engaging and coordinating the activities with internal stakeholders, enterprise architects, software developers, quality assurance, customer experience, contractors, and third-party vendors to drive flawless development of critical software products. This role will gather, define, and translate user needs and business requirements into viable software product requirements across the software development lifecycle. As we operate in a regulated Genomics CLIA laboratory, producing clear and concise requirements and documentation is of the utmost importance.

This position requires significant experience and technical knowledge in developing complex and sophisticated clinical genomics software and proven success driving software development initiatives by collaborating with cross-functional team members (Clinical Development, Laboratory Operations, Medical Affairs, Bioinformatics, Engineer, etc.) to ensure software product meet user and business needs. This person is comfortable with leveraging data to make product decisions and has proven experience analyzing and optimizing user experience and business processes. This person may lead and mentor junior product owners.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Serve as a central resource to evaluate, develop, and recommend technical software solutions during the product lifecycle throughout conceptualization, product roadmap development, execution, and launch based on a deep understanding of business goals, user needs, and jobs-to-be-done.
• Proactively understand the current business processes and conceptualize innovative solutions to create efficiencies around them.
• Drive and track execution of product strategy and roadmap by creation of release plans, and lead sprint grooming, sprint planning, and successful software delivery.
• Gather and define user needs business requirements and translate them into epics and a prioritized backlog of user stories with functional software requirements to guide software development to support clinical genomics sample-to-answer workflows.
• Analyze existing product requirements against unmet user…
• Analyze, manage, and track the status of requirements throughout the product and development lifecycle; enforce and redefine, as necessary.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and project team to define, prioritize, and complete software product strategy, roadmap, and product requirements.
• Produce flow diagrams, process and dataflow maps, wireframes, and prototypes with detailed product requirements to facilitate a better understanding of end‑user use cases, pain points, and opportunities to guide the software development team.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirement documentation, user documentation, and presentations to end‑users, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Provide business area expertise to developers and software quality assurance (QA) during the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Provide insight to the Quality Assurance (QA) team to develop verification, integration, and validation test plans and protocols.
• Maintain business systems standards by applying Agile methods, tools, and processes as standard practice.
• Possess strong written and oral communication skills in communicating and collaborating with colleagues, customers, and external collaborators from a wide variety of scientific, engineering, operational, and regulatory disciplines at many different levels.
• Work in collaboration with the team to create documentation for software development lifecycle (SDLC) and computer systems validation (CSV) efforts.
• Provide end‑user support in response to service requests, as needed.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Ability to work seated for approximately 50% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work standing for approximately 50% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 95% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work