What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Avalon Healthcare Solutions?
Avalon Healthcare Solutions is the nation’s leader in diagnostic intelligence, uniquely focused on transforming the role of diagnostic testing across the healthcare ecosystem. Our proprietary Diagnostic Insights Platform delivers evidence-based policies, curated lab networks, and real-time analytics that simplify complex diagnostics, accelerate innovation adoption, and optimize diagnostic investments.
Supporting over 30 health plans and 44 million members nationwide, Avalon partners with payers and providers to ensure diagnostic testing is performed appropriately, efficiently, and at the right time. Our flexible solutions span routine and genetic testing management, automated adherence, and end-to-end diagnostics support—driving measurable value, reduced waste, and improved clinical outcomes.
With unmatched scientific rigor, deep clinical expertise, and a performance-based model, Avalon is redefining how diagnostics power personalized care and healthcare value.
Learn more at www.avalonhcs.com.
You will be part of a team that shapes a new market and business. Most importantly, you will help Avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.
For more information about Avalon, please visit www.avalonhcs.com.
Avalon Healthcare Solutions, and its affiliates, is an equal opportunity employer. This position description is subject to change at any time. As determined by the company based upon business needs, an employee in this position may be required to perform duties and take responsibility for work other than as described in this document.
About the Product Owner Position:
The Product Owner will work with the Product Manager to play a key role in prioritizing and managing the maintenance and enhancement of existing lab benefit management technologies as well as exploring new features and capabilities based on market research. This position will provide day-to-day guidance and direction to development teams across the organization with the goal of delivering solutions that meet established requirements and perform as expected.
This position is eligible for remote work, but quarterly travel will be required to Avalon's corporate office located in Tampa, Florida.
Product Owner – Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the Product Manager, Clients, and internal stakeholders to gather well-defined actionable product requirements, ensuring they are clearly communicated and consistently understood throughout the development cycle.
- Engage daily with development resources to facilitate timely decision making and issue resolution keeping development velocity on track toward achieving key deadlines and milestones.
- Attend daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, and other agile ceremonies.
- Work with the Product Manager to align development priorities with the goals and objectives of the business.
- Observe and approve new feature demos on behalf of stakeholders, ensuring only development work that fully achieves the defined acceptance criteria is released to reduce rework and bug fixes.
- Contribute to the design of products and technology-based solutions and follow them through the IT development cycle.
- Manage work for assigned products and capabilities against budget and timeline goals and provide regular status updates to stakeholders across the organization.
- Possess the desire and ability to solve problems, creatively remove roadblocks, motivate teams, influence decision making, and say no when strategically appropriate.
Product Owner – Minimum Qualifications:
- Scrum Product Owner certification.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience
- Bachelors in Information Technology or Business Administration
- Experience working within an Agile development environment.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry and/or a background in medical policy and regulations is preferred.
- Understanding of software development life cycle and product life cycle management.
- Ability to balance new development work with existing technical debt priorities.
Product Owner – Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA preferred
- Previous experience in a private-equity backed company helpful
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