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Abbott Digital Product Owner in Livermore, California
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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
This position works out of our Livermore, CA office as part of the Abbott Heart Failure, Acelis Connected Health business. Our Heart Failure solutions are helping address some of the World’s greatest healthcare challenges.
As the Digital Product Owner, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with multiple stakeholders including senior management, the software development team, and the support team to drive growth and expansion in the connected health market. Working closely with development, quality assurance, and technical support as well as internal and external stakeholders, the Digital Product Owner will identify, define and prioritize initiatives to successfully launch new features to market while continually enhancing existing industry leading patient and clinician facing applications.
What You’ll Work On
The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job, but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.
Drive and communicate the digital technology product roadmap from conceptualization through feature launch creating actionable plans across multiple product platforms.
Collaborate with divisional stakeholders including senior management, as well as prospective users to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product feature requirements.
Work closely with the distributed Digital Product Business Analyst team to oversee the creation, development and execution of requirement process from formulation through execution.
Manage multiple product backlogs and continually prioritize features based on changing business needs and market requirements.
Provide regular updates to leadership, escalating items when needed, but with knowledge to identify and resolve most issues independently.
Nurture ideas and solutions to existing customer problems.
Influence all stages of product creation including design and development.
Perform robust product analytics by monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the Software Development Lifecycle.
Represent and lead technical product function in project/program core team meetings; liaise with the commercial, operations, end-users, Digital Product Support and Senior Management to deliver updates.
Partner with internal and external product development teams to ensure successful delivery of digital products against requirements and business expectations.
Required Qualifications
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Marketing, Business or related field, or equivalent work experience.
Five years of experience working in Healthcare or related field.
Successful track record of developing products within deadlines.
Keen strategic vision and ability to influence without direct authority.
Ability to prioritize effectively with excellent attention to detail.
Familiar with various leading Software Development Methodologies.
In-depth knowledge of Scrum Agile processes and principles.
Working knowledge of product development architecture and user-centered design principles.
Excellent oral and written communication skills across varying seniority levels.
Ability to work with large, distributed and diverse teams.
Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
Creative and innovative thinker.
Proficiency in the use of analytic and reporting tools.
Detail oriented
Persuasive and influential
Professional demeanor via phone and in person
Strong computer/software skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Organization/time Management skills
Human relations skills
Preferred Qualifications
Certifications in Product or Project Management a plus.
Certifications in Agile Scrum Roles a plus
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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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The base pay for this position is $112,000.00 – $224,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com