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Job Function:
Technology Product & Platform Management
Job Sub Function:
Technical Product Management
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
São Paulo, Brazil
Job Description:
Technical Product Owner
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly motivated and outcome-driven Medical Affairs Technical Product Owner to join our LATAM High Performing Team (HPT) organization based in São Paulo.
The Technical Product Owner will be accountable for maximizing product value by translating business needs into a prioritized product backlog, enabling technology teams to deliver scalable, compliant, and customer-centric solutions.
The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator who combines business acumen, product management expertise, and technical understanding to drive strategic outcomes. This role will act as the primary link between business stakeholders, engineering teams, and enterprise functions, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities while fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Ownership
- Own and communicate the product vision, roadmap, and backlog in alignment with business objectives, customer needs, and organizational priorities.
- Shape the squad vision and steer delivery toward measurable customer and business impact.
- Define and communicate product priorities, objectives, key results (OKRs), success measures, and value-realization expectations.
- Make transparent prioritization decisions that balance customer and business value, technical feasibility, cost, delivery capacity, risk, compliance, and technical debt.
- Ensure the delivery of measurable outcomes and continuous value realization rather than outputs alone.
Backlog, Release & Agile Delivery
- Create, refine, and prioritize epics, features, user stories, and enablers, with clear acceptance criteria and readiness for development.
- Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, product demonstrations, and relevant squad ceremonies.
- Maintain an integrated release plan aligned with product priorities, dependencies, risks, technical feasibility, and delivery capacity.
- Partner closely with engineering teams to support high-quality, timely, and predictable delivery.
- Actively remove blockers, facilitate timely decision-making, and optimize the flow of value.
- Define and monitor product, delivery, and team-level metrics, including sprint outcomes, blockers, flow indicators, release progress, quality, and value realization.
- Act as the voice of the customer within the squad, ensuring that product decisions address validated customer needs and business outcomes.
- Lead requirements-gathering activities with business stakeholders, engineering, user experience, and end users.
Technical Product Leadership
- Develop a strong understanding of product architecture, integrations, data flows, technical dependencies, and platform constraints.
- Collaborate with architects, lead engineers, engineers, cybersecurity, data, and platform teams to assess solution options and trade-offs before implementation.
- Drive the balanced management of technical debt and feature delivery while promoting platform stability, security, scalability, resilience, and performance.
- Support modernization initiatives, digital transformation programs, and the responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
Stakeholder, Squad & Partner Management
- Build trusted relationships with business leaders, end users, technical teams, and external partners.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-friendly language and communicate product progress, value, decisions, risks, and dependencies proactively.
- Facilitate alignment across global, regional, and local stakeholders and manage expectations effectively.
- Coordinate with other product squads to manage interdependencies, sequencing, shared capabilities, and synchronized delivery.
- Partner with product, engineering, and delivery leadership to identify squad capacity and capability needs, support resource planning, and facilitate onboarding.
- Coordinate with vendors and third parties to align commitments, dependencies, quality expectations, and delivery outcomes with squad objectives.
- Partner with product or platform team to communicate product value, roadmap direction, releases, and relevant changes to customers and stakeholders.
Compliance, Quality, Documentation & Risk Management
- Ensure product and platform solutions comply with applicable regulatory, security, privacy, quality, and records requirements.
- Support validation, audit readiness, traceability, and evidence-generation activities where required.
- Proactively identify product, delivery, operational, supplier, and compliance risks; define mitigation and escalation strategies.
- Ensure product information and documentation are accurate, current, accessible, traceable, and maintained throughout the lifecycle.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Foster a culture of experimentation, learning, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Promote evidence-based experimentation and a responsible fail-fast mindset, using measurable outcomes and customer feedback to validate assumptions and guide decisions.
- Drive process optimization and use data, analytics, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, and emerging technologies to improve product outcomes.
- Use retrospectives, delivery insights, and stakeholder feedback to improve squad practices and product performance.
- Contribute to sustainable High Performing Team practices and culture.
High Performing Team Behaviors
The Technical Product Owner is expected to demonstrate:
- End-to-end ownership and accountability.
- Customer and business value focus.
- Data-driven decision making.
- Continuous learning mindset.
- Bias for action and results.
- Effective planning and prioritization.
- Compliance-driven execution aligned with company processes.
- Collaboration across functions and geographies.
- Transparency and proactive communication.
- Courage to challenge the status quo and drive innovation.
- Commitment to inclusion, diversity, and team success.
- Growth mindset focused on continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or related technology roles.
- Advanced English
- Experience working in Agile product delivery environments and strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile frameworks, and product management practices.
- Demonstrated experience managing product backlogs, prioritization processes, release planning, and product or delivery metrics.
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and make timely, evidence-based decisions.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within regulated environments (Healthcare, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, etc.).
- Experience with cloud platforms, enterprise applications, APIs, data integrations, and digital platforms.
- Knowledge of AI, automation, analytics, and digital transformation initiatives.
- SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, Scrum Product Owner, Agile, or Product Management certifications.
- Experience managing global products and complex stakeholder ecosystems.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Agile Product Development, Analytical Reasoning, Coaching, Collaboration, Competitive Landscape, Critical Thinking, Customer Alignment, Demand Forecasting, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Organizing, Product Development, Product Improvements, Product Strategies, Requirements Analysis, Research and Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Development Management, Stakeholder Management, Technical Credibility, Technical Writing, Technologically Savvy