Wedgewood · 11 hours ago
Product Owner
Portland, ME 04101, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
3+ years expWedgewood is the nation’s largest and most trusted provider of compounded veterinary medications, recently merging with Blue Rabbit to enhance their services. The Product Owner role is crucial for defining requirements, managing the product backlog, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical delivery, while collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality products that meet customer needs.
PharmaceuticalVeterinary
Responsibilities
As a product lead team member, work effectively with all product team members to ensure solutions and services capture and address all requirements across all teams
Partner with the Director of Product Management on large, complex initiatives to drive feature refinement and deliver assigned work. Maintaining effective synchronous and asynchronous communication is a must
Leverage product management, business analysis, and project management skills, processes, and techniques
Capture, prioritize, and integrate feedback from customers, clients, and partners to shape product solutions and services that deliver measurable value
Translate business objectives and stakeholder input into well-structured epics, detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications that guide development
Maintain a healthy, actionable backlog by ensuring items are clearly defined, estimated, prioritized, and ready for development
Plan and prioritize features effectively across sprints to maximize customer value and team velocity
Serve as the go-to product expert for the team, responding to questions by continuously deepening product knowledge and leveraging commercial and operational SMEs when needed
Collaborate closely with developers, QA, and stakeholders to clarify requirements, ensure successful feature delivery, and iterate based on feedback and performance insights
Monitor product performance and address production issues promptly, ensuring stability and customer satisfaction
Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, fostering alignment and transparency
Communicate progress, risks, and upcoming priorities through clear, timely updates to both the team and stakeholders
Effectively prioritize competing demands and deliver commitments
Identify and remove impediments to accelerate delivery and maximize customer value
Create sprint plans and lead sprint reviews, ensuring clarity of goals and visibility of outcomes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in business, Marketing, Computer Science, or related field
3+ years of experience in consumer software development
1+ years of product owner experience, experience within the animal health industry is preferred
Strong understanding of scrum practices, with the ability to coach others
Experience with SDLC tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar
Benefits
A comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and flexible spending accounts
401(k) retirement plan with a generous company contribution to help you save for the future
Company Paid Life and disability insurance
Access to voluntary insurance options
A generous paid time off program that increases every year
Tuition reimbursement
Opportunity for growth - We believe in promoting from within and do so through our internal job posting program!
Company
Wedgewood
Wedgewood is the nation’s largest and most trusted provider of compounded veterinary medications.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2020-12-09Acquired
Leadership Team
Robert Palmer
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Recent News
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