Product Owner - Radiology IT

Jacobian Engineering Inc

$110K — $130K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in product ownership or related software delivery role.
  • Proven ability to lead Agile software teams through all stages of product delivery.
  • Expertise in transforming complex requirements into prioritized tasks.
  • Strong judgment in balancing technical debt and customer satisfaction.
  • Exceptional communication skills for diverse stakeholder engagement.
  • Customer-centric approach with decisive product management skills.
  • Experience working in globally distributed teams in healthcare settings.
  • Familiarity with radiology or medical imaging workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the delivery roadmap for Fluency for Imaging.
  • Lead cross-functional Agile teams with clear priorities and plans.
  • Refine product backlog prioritizing customer value and delivery risks.
  • Collaborate with Product Manager on product direction and release timing.
  • Develop release plans that balance strategy, quality, and stability.
  • Engage with clinical stakeholders to translate needs into requirements.
  • Monitor product health and assess customer-related issues and risks.

Benefits

  • Join a mission-driven team focused on AI innovations in radiology.
  • Hybrid work model with in-office collaboration in Pittsburgh.
  • Comprehensive health insurance from day one of employment.
  • 401k plan with employer matching contributions.
  • Generous PTO and sick days for work-life balance.
  • Enhanced parental leave benefits offered.
Full Job Description
Jacobian is seeking a Product Owner to lead day-to-day delivery for Fluency for Imaging. This role will translate product strategy and clinical workflow needs into clear priorities, executable release plans, and measurable outcomes. Working across Product Management, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Customer Success, Support, and clinical stakeholders, the Product Owner will help advance modernization and clinical AI capabilities while maintaining product stability and customer confidence.

This is a central role in the future of Fluency for Imaging and an important investment in Jacobian's growing Product organization.

What You'll Do
  • Own the rolling four-quarter delivery roadmap, with detailed planning and execution ownership for the next two quarters.
  • Lead a cross-functional Agile team by providing clear priorities, requirements, acceptance criteria, decisions, and release outcomes.
  • Own and refine the product backlog based on customer value, roadmap priorities, technical dependencies, regulatory obligations, and delivery risk.
  • Partner with the Product Manager to shape product direction, release scope, timing, tradeoffs, and priorities.
  • Build realistic release plans that balance strategic development, customer commitments, modernization, technical debt, quality, and stability.
  • Collaborate with Engineering through design, development, validation, release, and post-release support.
  • Coordinate defect triage, customer-impact assessment, release-risk evaluation, and hotfix planning.
  • Engage with radiologists, clinical leaders, healthcare organizations, and internal teams to translate workflow needs into actionable requirements.
  • Participate in customer visits, demonstrations, user-acceptance testing, and release validation.
  • Monitor product health, recurring customer issues, adoption barriers, and release quality.
  • Maintain product and release documentation required for readiness, validation, regulatory, and audit activities.
  • Communicate roadmap progress, release status, customer impact, risks, and decisions to technical, clinical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
  • Strengthen Product operating practices through greater clarity, discipline, transparency, and repeatability.

Requirements
  • Five or more years of experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or a comparable software-delivery role.
  • Experience leading an Agile software team from backlog definition through release and post-release support.
  • Ability to translate complex customer, clinical, technical, and business needs into clear, prioritized requirements.
  • Strong judgment balancing roadmap execution, defect prioritization, release tradeoffs, technical debt, customer escalations, and risk management.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical, clinical, commercial, and executive audiences.
  • A customer-oriented mindset and the confidence to make timely, disciplined product decisions.
  • Comfort working across regions and time zones with globally distributed teams, including experience in a global product organization.
  • Experience in radiology, medical imaging, diagnostic workflow, or regulated healthcare software - ideally including clinical reporting, speech recognition, ambient documentation, AI-assisted workflows, or enterprise desktop applications.
  • Experience partnering directly with clinicians, medical affairs, or clinical informatics teams, and supporting large healthcare organizations through escalated production issues.
  • Hands-on experience with Jira, Agile ceremonies, structured requirements, UAT, release documentation, and quality-management processes.
  • Willingness to travel up to 15% of the time.

Benefits
  • Join a fast-growing, mission-driven team shaping the future of AI in radiology - building products that improve workflows and patient outcomes worldwide
  • Work from our Pittsburgh, PA office at Bakery Square on a hybrid schedule (2 days per week in-office)
  • Comprehensive health insurance available from day one
  • 401k contributions, employer match up to 5%
  • 20 days PTO + sick days
  • Enhanced parental leave and pay

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