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Senior Product Owner

BenchmarkIT

Greenwich · flexible Full-time Senior $175k – $210k/yr Today

About the role

Role Overview

As a Senior Product Owner specializing in healthcare claims and authorization data, you will define, shape, and deliver complex, high-impact data and integration products. This role requires deep healthcare domain expertise, strong analytical rigor, and the ability to translate business needs into development-ready specifications.

You will:

  • Analyze and translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Own and drive product vision and roadmap for API-, FHIR-, and X12-based integrations
  • Serve as a subject-matter expert for claims and authorization datasets
  • Produce high-quality documentation that enables development and QA teams to execute with minimal ambiguity

Key Responsibilities

  • Define, prioritize, and manage a product backlog focused on healthcare claims and authorization workflows
  • Author detailed business and functional requirements for:
    • APIs and integration services
    • FHIR resources (e.g., ExplanationOfBenefit, CoverageEligibility)
    • X12 transactions (e.g., 837, 278, 835)
  • Partner with clinical, payer, and technical stakeholders to align on data definitions, workflows, and business rules
  • Translate roadmap initiatives into well-scoped user stories with clear acceptance criteria for development and QA
  • Conduct market and standards analysis, staying current with regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., CMS, HIPAA)
  • Lead agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to design scalable, reliable interfaces and ensure end-to-end data integrity
  • Mentor and support junior product owners and analysts, promoting best practices in product delivery and stakeholder management

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of product ownership or product management experience, with 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity
  • Deep expertise in healthcare claims and authorization data, including data structures, lifecycles, payer rules, and denial drivers
  • Demonstrated experience developing business and functional requirements for:
    • APIs (REST, OAuth, OpenAPI)
    • FHIR (R4 or later)
    • X12 transaction sets (837, 835, 278)
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to research, synthesize, and clearly communicate standards and data sources
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; documentation is consistently development-ready
  • Proven experience working with development and QA teams in Agile environments, including writing UAT criteria
  • Mandatory healthcare domain experience; exposure to data warehousing and ETL concepts is a plus
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Health Informatics, or a related field; advanced degrees or certifications preferred

Desired Skills

  • Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Swagger/OpenAPI, and API testing frameworks
  • Track record of delivering products aligned to defined success metrics
  • Strong cross-functional leadership skills across Product, Engineering, QA, and Customer Success
  • Ability to mentor peers and foster a culture of continuous improvement

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive base salary range: $175,000 – $210,000 (regionally adjusted)
  • Performance-based incentives
  • Comprehensive medical benefits, 401(k), and generous paid time off
  • Opportunities for career growth across a broad healthcare data and technology portfolio

Why This Role

  • Influence mission-critical healthcare data products that support revenue integrity and population health initiatives
  • Collaborate within a high-performing, mission-driven healthcare technology environment
  • Work at the forefront of interoperability, advancing real-world adoption of FHIR- and X12-based solutions

Skills

APIFHIRRESTSwagger/OpenAPIX12OAuth

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