Product Owner

About the role

At A-dec, we do more than create the highest quality products and services for the dental industry; we strive to deliver a superior employment experience for each of our team members. With an environment that encourages and assists each person in developing to their highest potential, a career at A-dec is incredibly rewarding.

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.