Product Owner

Overview

The Product Owner serves as a product expert, combining market/competitive analysis and customer feedback to establish and support a distinctive product plan for product enhancements and market releases. Responsible for executing A-dec product vision and roadmap by creating and delivering innovative solutions that solve real world customer problems.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with product managers, designers, development teams and other stakeholders to form a deep understanding of customer problems and potential solutions.
• Make the right call on what needs to be addressed when and how value can be delivered as early as possible.
• Use research, analysis and decision-making skills to capture a wide range of enhancements and convert them into an achievable roadmap.
• Ensure development teams are clear about why features are prioritized and that they are motivated to build products for customers.
• Work closely with Senior and Principal Product Managers to ensure alignment with the roadmap and business strategy.
• Engage regularly with other teams from the wider business, such as support, marketing, training and sales, who help bring the solutions to market.
• Communicate with business stake holders and the development team to ensure our growth goals and objectives are aligned with strategic business objectives.
• Executes field validation of new products and coordinates site locations, installations, and evaluations procedures.
• Own, organize, and update product feature backlog and establish priorities during planning and potentially daily stand ups.
• Building relationships outside of product development; foster relationships with key business partners including Territory Managers and Dealer Partners that benefit the ability to deal with issues and get better feedback.
• Gather customer input to ensure an outcome driven innovation funnel.

Minimum Qualifications

Generally requires a bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Engineering, or other related discipline with approximately 1-3 years of experience in product marketing, management, development, and/or analysis.

Requires excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills. Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Demonstrates good organizational skills and the ability to manage time and resources effectively. Humble, hungry, and smart.

Requires strong technical product knowledge, understanding of product strategy, and a high level of customer intimacy. Must also have strong knowledge of dental industry practices and trends.

Demonstrates ability to work independently as well as in a team environment. Functional experience in engineering and product management (PO, PMM, PM).

Dental or medical device or consumable industry experience is highly desirable.

Ability to successfully work with cross-functional groups and multiple stakeholders along with experience taking a lead role on small projects or aspects of large scope projects.