Technology Project & Program Manager - Product Owner

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services that combines deep domain knowledge with specialized technology. Our portfolio offers software tools coupled with content and services that customers need to make decisions with confidence. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way we do business, build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right.

Who We Are : What We Offer :

The Technology Project & Program Manager - Product Owner role offers growth potential opportunities, professional development, an engaging small team environment, a , weekends off, and amazing benefits.

Hybrid Office Locations :

If you are a problem-solver who is passionate about ensuring customers are delighted by how products look / feel / work and are looking for a new challenge (as well as an opportunity to make a real difference in how nurse students use our products to become ready for practice), we want to hear from you!

What You'll be Doing :

As the Technology Project & Program Manager , you will help us in our mission to ensure that nurses, nurse educators, and hospital administrators who use our Nursing digital products continue to benefit from the excellent content and workflow functionality offered in our point-of-care and point-of-learning solutions.

This Product Owner will have responsibility for executing the roadmap priorities for key digital offerings in Nursing – Nursing Center and CE Connection. The Product Owner will develop a first-hand, in-depth knowledge of what users of this solution’s value and what helps customers in their workflows, to ensure nurses have what they need to ensure the best education and professional development, which ultimately drives the best patient care.

The Product Owner manages product development for assigned products / platforms and the relationship between those products and WK Technology. While the Product Owner is not expected to make technology decisions or understand the detail of the coding, they must have sufficient understanding of technology issues as well as an in-depth understanding of the value each release brings to customers and how the release will work. The Product Owner reports to the Director of Product Development, Nursing, and will be part of a team of Product Owners working on products across Nursing. Please note, this is a Jr. level role.

Key Tasks :

• Coordinating with Product Management on activities (e.g., Lean experiments, competitive / market intelligence, customer insights / analysis) designed to ensure deep understanding of customer needs
• Translating high-level user stories from Product Management into specific technical development items / requests, with clear metrics for success articulated in each requirement
• Bringing strong organizational skills, as well as ruthless prioritization, to how product backlogs are crafted / maintained / grow
• Owning the product development lifecycle / schedule, working with Agile / Scrum teams to plan for, and execute on, sprints and releases that deliver on the Product Manager’s roadmap priorities
• Working with the Agile / Scrum teams to maintain the health / performance of assigned products / platforms, such as compliance with required norms and standards for security, privacy, accessibility, and discoverability, as well as integration with other systems (e.g., electronic health record systems, learning management systems)
• Ensuring that where an assigned product needs to interface with other products or platforms, they partner and closely collaborate with other Product Owners and Technology colleagues to identify opportunities for efficiencies / consistency in development approaches
• Being the “glue” in the product team who acts as a product’s “subject matter expert” for questions and requests for updates (about existing and upcoming features / functionality) from Product Management, Technology, Content, Product Marketing, Sales, Sales Enablement, and Customer Success / Support

You're a Great Fit if You Have These / Can :

We are an incredibly supportive team that truly enjoys what we do and who we do it with. We play a key role within WK and assist in driving the daily success. If you have a passion for making a true difference within an organization, while working alongside a genuinely caring and supportive team, we highly encourage you to apply. #Bethedifference