Senior Technical Product Owner

Minnesota - Product Owner

Hollstadt Overview

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Hollstadt Consulting and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel at any time.

Job Description

Role: Senior Technical Product Owner

Contract: 6 months - possibility to extension or conversion (FTE) lots of work

Location: Remote (may be required to travel as needed) Travel - Rochester, Phoenix, Jacksonville. Could be to rural MN and WI locations (lighter possibility)

Pay Rate: $76.39/hour W2

This product owner role will be serving on the Iris product, a generative AI solution for creating patient and health education content. This role will help provide product direction in scaling the existing data ingestion and external API work.

Skills/Experience:

• Background in Generative AI, Agentic AI, Chatbot experience
• Healthcare experience
• CSPO is required within 1 year of start date per job description
• Hard/soft skills: manage backlog, work collaboratively, critical thinking(), self-starter, come with ideas, attitude of curiosity, seek out knowledge
• PO experience: 5-10 years, definitely more senior
• Help define OKRs
• Having an understanding of APIs, etc is super helpful but soft skills are more important
• Digital marketing experience: far less important than building out APIs, Gen AI

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience, OR
• HS Diploma/GED and 9+ years of relevant experience

Notes:

• Product helps develop content, built for editors, now used by physicians
• This individual will work closely with Michael the senior PM on the team along with Engineers. The team is about 20 people
• They have one person managing front end
• This would be managing APIs (Restful, etc) and help refine vision into features that they need to create
• It is important this person is a self-starter

Interview process:

• Early screening (1:1), then move on to a panel - use cases, role playing
• Any time zone is fine, team members are coast to coast
• Ceremonies are 8:30-10:30 am CST

Job Summary:

Understands and considers both the business and the technical engineering/IT needs to ensure quality digital products and related operational workflows to meet/exceed the desired business objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Able to perform cost, benefit and risk analysis associated with the proposed product/services and recommend alternatives for solutions throughout the product life cycle.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and users to synthesize, articulate, and document business and system requirements.
• Performs data analysis, defines, and documents business requirements, translates business requirements to technical/engineering specifications, acceptance criteria, user experience requirements and system validation while considering the complete technical and non-technical solution.
• Technical specifications are utilized by Engineering/IT in the final technical design and eventual product build/acquisition or integration.
• May assist product and operations leaders to coordinate deployment of deliverables (varies by product).
• Provides input for development of other product documents, project charters and plans, work assignments, deliverable target dates, and other aspects of assigned work.
• Applies systems engineering methodologies and discipline throughout the product and project lifecycle based on assignment.
• Research, analyzes, and validates complete and accurate business and systems requirements.
• Establishes scope boundaries for basic and routine products and technical requirements with accuracy and clarity.
• Plans and monitors work scope estimates and schedules for the defined scope of the product.
• Assesses and defines problems through root cause analysis and proactively brings solutions to the table.
• Able to read, assess and interpret vended solution architecture and translate into scope of work and technical specification requirements for integration into Mayo Clinic engineering/technology systems and product operations workflows.
• Understands and helps define product implementation change management requirements for those products not requiring formal Implementation Team resourcing.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams in Product Owner capacity.

Benefits + Perks

Comprehensive Benefit Plan

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k + Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

Bonus Opportunities

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we'll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we'll pay you $1,000

Ongoing Support & Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.