Product Owner IV

With a mantra of Empowering Human Potential, Hanger, Inc. is the world's premier provider of orthotic and prosthetic (O&P) services and products, offering the most advanced O&P solutions, clinically differentiated programs and unsurpassed customer service. Hanger's Patient Care segment is the largest owner and operator of O&P patient care clinics nationwide. Through its Products & Services segment, Hanger distributes branded and private label O&P devices, products and components, and provides rehabilitative solutions to the broader market. With 160 years of clinical excellence and innovation, Hanger's vision is to lead the orthotic and prosthetic markets by providing superior patient care, outcomes, services and value. Collectively, Hanger employees touch thousands of lives each day, helping people achieve new levels of mobility and freedom.

As a Product Owner IV, you are responsible for maximizing the value delivered by an agile product team or product area, owning execution from discovery through delivery and iteration. This role focuses on translating product vision and strategy into clear, actionable, and well sequenced work, ensuring the team consistently solves the highest value problems for customers and the business.

You operate as a senior individual contributor with strong autonomy in backlog ownership and delivery decisions. You partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Design, and operational stakeholders to ensure solutions are usable, scalable, and aligned with real world workflows. This is a highly collaborative, hands on role for someone who thrives in agile environments and brings structure, clarity, and momentum to complex product initiatives.

Product Backlog Ownership and Prioritization

Own and continuously refine the product backlog for a defined product area or capability set.
• Write high quality user stories, define acceptance criteria, and ensure backlog items are execution
• Prioritize work based on customer value, business impact, delivery risk, and dependencies.
• Proactively manage scope trade offs to maintain delivery predictability and outcomes.

Translate Strategy into Execution

• Partner with Product Managers and business stakeholders to deeply understand product vision, goals, and success metrics.
• Decompose complex initiatives into incremental, value driven deliverables.
• Ensure sprint goals and delivery plans align with strategic intent and near term priorities.

Agile Delivery Leadership

• Serve as the primary product voice for the development team.
• Lead backlog refinement and actively participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Make timely, informed decisions to unblock delivery and resolve scope, priority, or requirements questions.

Discovery, Validation, and Iteration

• Lead and support discovery activities including customer interviews, workflow mapping, and requirements definition.
• Collaborate with Design and Engineering to validate ideas using prototypes, betas, experiments, and data.
• Incorporate learnings into backlog refinement and prioritization to continuously improve outcomes.

Measure Impact and Optimize Value

• Define and track success metrics such as adoption, activation, retention, usability, and workflow efficiency.
• Support release readiness including documentation, enablement, and go to market coordination.
• Evaluate post launch performance and drive iterative improvements based on data and feedback.

Cross Functional Partnership

• Collaborate with manufacturing, clinical, operational, and technical teams to ensure solutions are practical and scalable.
• Manage cross team dependencies and communicate priorities, progress, and risks transparently.
• Escalate delivery or scope risks appropriately while proposing actionable mitigation options.

What Success Looks Like

• A consistently well groomed, strategically aligned backlog that enables predictable delivery
• Strong adoption and measurable customer outcomes for delivered features
• Reduced rework through clear requirements and early validation
• Improved cycle time from idea to shipped and learned
• High trust and effectiveness within the product and engineering team

• 8+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar agile delivery role
• Extensive hands on experience working with agile product teams
• 3+ years delivering SaaS or workflow driven products in production environments
• Proven ability to translate strategy into executable plans and prioritized backlogs
• Strong judgment in making feature level prioritization and scope trade off decisions
• Experience partnering closely with Engineering and Design on delivery execution
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Aha!, Lucid, Azure DevOps, or similar
• Ability to convert ambiguous or complex needs into clear, well scoped requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must have, or be eligible to obtain, a valid driver's license and driving record within the standards outlined within Hanger's Motor Vehicle Safety Policy and Procedures.

• Advanced backlog management and prioritization
• Strong user story writing and acceptance criteria definition
• Agile delivery expertise (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid)
• Discovery, experimentation, and iterative delivery practices
• Stakeholder alignment and communication
• Customer and outcome oriented mindset
• Act with integrity in all ways and at all times, remaining honest, transparent, and respectful in all relationships.
• Keep the patient at the center of everything that you do, building lifelong trust.
• Foster open collaboration and constructive dialogue with everyone around you.
• Continuously innovate new solutions, influencing and responding to change.
• Focus on superior outcomes, and calibrate work processes for outstanding results.

• Competitive Compensation Packages
• 8 Paid National Holidays & 4 additional Floating Holidays
• PTO that includes Vacation and Sick time
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• 401k Savings and Retirement Plan
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave for New Parents
• Flexible Work Schedules and Part-time Opportunities
• Generous Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Mentorship Programs- Mentor and Mentee
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance by Location
• Relocation Assistance
• Regional & National traveling CPO/CO/CP opportunities
• Volunteering for Local and National events such as Hanger's BAKA Bootcamp and EmpowerFest

Hanger, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship. All conditions and privileges of employment are administered to all employees without discrimination or harassment because of race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, special disabled veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. The company will comply with all applicable state or local fair employment laws that forbid discrimination or harassment on the basis of other protected characteristics. Retaliation against any employee for filing or supporting a complaint of discrimination or harassment is prohibited.

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