Product Owner

The Product Owner is responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog to align with strategic goals, customer needs, and AI-enabled product opportunities. This role partners closely with Product Managers to translate product strategy into execution and collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact healthcare SaaS solutions that enhance user experience, compliance, and intelligent workflow automation.  Key Responsibilities:  Strategic Backlog Management  Define and maintain the product backlog with clear priorities  Partner with Product Managers to translate product strategy into actionable user stories and prioritized backlog items  Align backlog with customer value, compliance needs, and opportunities to embed technology/AI driven capabilities where they improve outcomes and efficiency  Agile Execution & Iterative Development  Drive agile ceremonies and sprint planning  Collaborate with engineering and design teams for delivery  Ensure continuous improvement through feedback loops  Partner with development, operations and data teams to shape all features, validate outcomes, and iterate based on user and business impact  Healthcare Domain Expertise  Understand healthcare workflows and compliance standards (HIPAA, HL7, FHIR)  Design for interoperability and regulatory alignment  Prioritize features that improve clinical and operational outcomes  Understand the application of AI in healthcare workflows, including documentation support, decision support, and automation, while considering accuracy, safety, and regulatory implications  Stakeholder Engagement & Communication  Partner closely with Product Managers to communicate product vision, roadmap priorities, and execution tradeoffs across teams  Manage expectations and feedback from internal and external stakeholders  Facilitate alignment between product, engineering, and clinical teams  Maintain tight alignment with cross functional team on goals, release priorities, customer feedback, and evolving business needs  Data-Driven Decision Making  Conduct market and user research to inform product decisions  Use analytics tools to measure feature impact and guide prioritization  Apply insights to optimize product performance and user experience  Leverage product, customer, and operational data to identify, prioritize, and measure use cases that improve workflow efficiency, quality, and user outcomes    Required Qualifications:  Education & Experience Guidelines  Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field  2-5 years of relevant work experience  Proven experience as a Product Owner in a SaaS environment  Familiarity with AI/ML-enabled product capabilities, prompt-driven workflows, and responsible AI considerations such as accuracy, transparency, bias, privacy, and human oversight  Experience in healthcare SaaS is highly preferred; experience supporting AI-enabled or data-intensive products is a plus  Travel up to 30%  Familiarity with analytics tools and data-driven decision making  Understanding of HL7, FHIR, and other healthcare interoperability standards  Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level:   Executing and Contributing  Customer Obsessed: Understands the customer’s needs through observation, questioning and going to Gemba. Strategic: Uses data to make informed decisions while anticipating future trends and aligning actions with organizational goals. Innovation for Impact: Proactively explores new perspectives and experiments to solve day-to-day problems. Inspiring: Understands how their work contributes to the organization’s purpose. Builds Extraordinary Teams: Actively fosters collaboration by contributing positively, supporting shared goals, helping others succeed, and celebrating team achievements together. Courageous: Shows strength through action—moves quickly toward goals, embraces uncertainty, speaks up, and perseveres through challenges with confidence and integrity. Delivers Results: Sets high standards and consistently delivers by focusing priorities and overcoming obstacles, and upholding organizational values. Adaptable: Applies rigor by working thoroughly and following processes without cutting corners while remaining adaptable. Lead with FBS: Goes to Gemba—observes real-world processes, not just meetings. Embraces FBS by applying its fundamentals to improve work, engage in kaizen, and continuously grow knowledge and usage.  Fortive Corporation Overview Fortive's essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare. We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. We're a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workpl