Healthcare Product Owner- Hybrid

Product Owner

Work Model: Hybrid – Bridgewater, NJ

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job ID: 00067131631

About The Role

As a Product Owner – Senior Associate, you will make an impact by providing product vision, Agile leadership, and customer advocacy to software development teams. You will be a valued member of our product and engineering organization, partnering with Product Management, stakeholders, and delivery teams to ensure high‑quality, value‑driven outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.

In This Role, You Will

• Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project through understanding and representing the customer to the team through backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories and requirements.
• Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum best practices and values and enforcing them while maintaining/growing team dynamic.
• Partner with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog that reflects value and prioritizes work for a software development team while understanding changing requirements on a daily basis.
• Represent Cognizant in client conferences, Webinars, and customer workgroup meetings to communicate the business value of Product features to existing customers and prospects
• Provide an active role in removing/mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Manage the relationship with the client by organizing product system demo for critical features before those are getting adapted to ensure those meet business expectations
• Drive the usability sessions with customers to gauge the usability of new features and address customer feedback and concerns by coordinating with development teams
• Be responsible to identify potential risks in meeting product quality and release timelines, assess their impact and identify ways to mitigate those.
• Be responsible for ensuring quality designs for all features, either by performing feature design, or by coordinating the activities of designers within the scrum team, product family, and/or the product portfolio.
• Mentor team members on the Agile Framework and coordination of their deliverables
  
  

Work model

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 2–3 days per week in a Cognizant office in Bridgewater, NJ. Regardless of your working arrangement, we support a healthy work‑life balance through our wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on business or client needs. We will always communicate expectations clearly.

What You Need To Have To Be Considered

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related field.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent certification.
• 5 years of professional software product development experience.
• Experience working with one or more Payer or Health plan and sound understanding of health plan’s disciplines ( Claims, Membership, EDI etc.) - THIS IS A MUST!
• 2 years of experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Hands‑on experience documenting and elaborating software requirements, including user stories and detailed specifications.
• Experience across multiple full project lifecycles, from concept through delivery.
• Proven ability to manage large‑scale SaaS or cloud‑based Agile projects.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  
  

These will help you stand out

• Experience with healthcare technology or regulated industries.
• Strong organizational skills with an outcome‑oriented mindset.
• Ability to work effectively with cross‑functional and geographically dispersed teams.
  
  

Salary And Other Compensation

Applicants will be accepted till 2/23/2026

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.

• Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*
  
  

The annual salary for this position will be in the range of $93K-$109K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  
  

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, creativity, productivity, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you are content with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

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