This position is incentive eligible.
What you will accomplish in this rolePosition Summary
The Associate Product Owner (APO), Ambient Documentation supports the Product Owner in the execution and delivery of ambient clinical documentation capabilities that reduce clinician documentation burden, improve note quality, and enable safer, more efficient care delivery. This role translates the established product vision, strategy, and priorities into clearly defined requirements, workflow designs, acceptance criteria, and delivered outcomes. The APO partners closely with the Product Owner, pod team, clinical informatics, data engineering, security, compliance, clinicians, and stakeholders to ensure requirements are execution-ready, AI-enabled capabilities are responsibly implemented, and adoption, analytics, and dashboard solutions are successfully delivered. The Associate Product Owner serves as a leadership partner to the Product Owner, contributing to leadership-facing discussions and reviews while owning delivery execution within defined scope. This role is designed for developing product leaders building toward full Product Owner accountability.
What you will do:
Product Execution, Vision and Strategic Enablement
- Execute against the Ambient Documentation product vision, strategy, and roadmap established by the Product Owner.
- Own delivery of assigned ambient documentation features, workflows, integrations, analytics, and adoption initiatives, ensuring alignment with product OKRs.
- Translate clinician, operational, compliance, and technical needs into detailed, well-structured user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Ensure requirements are implementation-ready and aligned with clinical workflow, privacy, security, regulatory, technical, business, and operational constraints.
- Own the mechanisms and delivery of requirements with engineering, data engineering, clinical informatics, and vendor teams for assigned scope.
- Partner with data engineering to define analytical requirements, data dependencies, documentation quality measures, adoption metrics, and reporting timelines.
- Own delivery of dashboards, reporting, and lever-based analytics solutions that measure clinician utilization, documentation efficiency, quality, and product outcomes.
- Coordinate delivery of AI-enabled and data-enabled solutions to ensure alignment with sprint goals, release timelines, governance expectations, and readiness activities.
- Identify opportunities for incremental improvement in product execution, ambient workflow design, analytics enablement, adoption support, and delivery processes.
- Escalate clinical, data, compliance, technical, adoption, or capacity risks and trade-offs to the Product Owner.
Backlog Management
- Own defined portions of the ambient clinical documentation product backlog, including features, epics, workflows, integrations, and analytics deliverables under Product Owner guidance.
- Partner with the Product Owner, Tech Lead, architects, engineers, clinical informatics, and operational SMEs to break down work into executable backlog items.
- Support backlog refinement by clarifying scope, dependencies, workflow impacts, data needs, and delivery sequencing.
- Monitor sprint progress and proactively surface risks, blockers, decision needs, or scope concerns.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with the Product Owner in leadership-facing meetings, product reviews, demos, clinical governance forums, and stakeholder readouts.
- Represent assigned scope in leadership discussions by providing clear status updates, risks, adoption insights, and delivery recommendations.
- Prepare materials including readouts, demos, workflow summaries, dashboards, product insights, and decision briefs for leadership and stakeholder audiences.
- Engage clinicians, clinical informatics, compliance, operations, and technology stakeholders to clarify requirements, validate delivered solutions, and incorporate feedback into execution.
- Support change management and adoption readiness by translating user feedback into prioritized product improvements and operational enablement needs.
Agile Process Participation
- Actively participate in Sprint Planning, Stand-Ups, Reviews/Demos, and Retrospectives.
- Ensure stories meet definition of ready prior to sprint commitment and definition of done prior to release acceptance.
- Support validation of completed work to ensure acceptance criteria, clinical usability expectations, and business outcomes are met.
- Partner with the Scrum Master to improve delivery flow, predictability, execution discipline, and cross-team coordination.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Practices and adheres to the "Code of Conduct" philosophy and "Mission and Value Statement."
What qualifications you will need:- Bachelor's degree in Healthcare, Nursing, Business Administration, Computer Science, Health Informatics, or other related fields Required
- Master's degree in Healthcare, Nursing, Business, Informatics, or related field (MSN, MBA, MHA, MS or equivalent) Preferred
- 3+ years of demonstrated experience and expertise in clinical operations, digital health, product delivery, or the ambient clinical documentation domain, ensuring alignment with business objectives and product goals while fostering effective collaboration within cross-functional teams Required
- 7+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, healthcare operations, clinical informatics, or a related business role Preferred
- Prior experience delivering digital products, workflow optimization, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, or clinical technology solutions with strong stakeholder relationships and advocacy for frontline users Preferred
- Demonstrated experience leading teams with multiple skillsets to fulfill a complex and aspirational business objective Required
- Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
Licenses, Certifications, & Training:
- Certified Scrum Product Owner or similar Agile certification Preferred
- Clinical, informatics, nursing, or healthcare technology certification relevant to assigned domain Preferred
25% travel Required
At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to fostering a culture of growth that allows you to build the career of a lifetime. We encourage you to apply for our Associate Product Owner today. We review all applications promptly, and qualified candidates will be contacted to continue the process. Join us!
