[Hiring] Product Owner @Fortive

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Company Description

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.