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Product Owner - EEG

Kennewick, WA

Position Summary: 

Cadwell is seeking a Product Owner – EEG to serve as the vital link between our clinical vision and engineering execution. This role is designed for a professional with a technical foundation who has gained hands-on experience in the EEG clinical environment and now wishes to drive product development from the "inside."

As the Technical Translator for the EEG product line, you will spend approximately 70% of your time working directly with the engineering team to manage the product backlog, lead technical grooming, and ensure that every feature, whether hardware or software, is clinically usable and technically sound. The Product Owner works in close partnership with the Product Manager, who owns overall product strategy, market positioning, and lifecycle decisions. The Product Owner ensures that strategy is translated into technically sound and executable development plans.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Backlog Ownership & Prioritization: Manage and refine the EEG product backlog to align with PM roadmap and business priorities, ensuring the team is always working on the most impactful features and maintenance tasks to resolve competing priorities.
  • Features Definition: Translate clinical workflows and user needs into clear product features. Define "Definition of Done" and acceptance criteria to ensure engineering efforts align with user expectations.
  • Technical Grooming & Collaboration: Participate in technical grooming sessions to provide clinical context and clarify functional goals, helping the engineering team assess technical feasibility, architectural impact and requirements development.
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Lead functional validation and user acceptance testing to ensure they meet market needs and satisfy the defined acceptance criteria.
  • Hardware/Software Ecosystem Alignment: Ensure that software requirements account for the full EEG ecosystem, including amplifiers and headboxes, to maintain seamless signal acquisition and a cohesive user experience.
  • Escalated Support Partnership: Provide expert clinical and functional guidance to the service and support teams to help diagnose complex escalated customer issues and identify potential product enhancements.
  • Documentation: Create and maintain user-facing documentation, release notes, and functional requirements to support product transparency and training.
  • Other Duties: Perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned.

Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Technical Translation: Ability to decompose complex clinical workflows into logical, granular requirements and clear specifications for engineering teams.
  • Systems Thinking: Ability to understand technical specifications, system architecture, and signal processing basics to effectively communicate with engineering.
  • Detail-Oriented Communication: Exceptional English written and oral communication skills; specifically, the ability to document "Definitions of Done" and technical specifications that are testable, concise, and unambiguous.
  • Problem Diagnosis: Ability to provide strategic technical insight for escalated customer issues, distinguishing between software bugs, hardware failures, and clinical misconfigurations.
  • Strong Prioritization Skills: Ability to make difficult trade-off decisions and manage a product backlog to maximize value in each development sprint.
  • Collaboration: Ability to complete work both independently and as an effective member of a team; adapt to changing requirements and priorities.


Education / Experience:

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree (BS) in Engineering (Biomedical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering) or Computer Science is strongly preferred; a BS in a clinical or life science field with equivalent professional technical experience will be considered.
  • Experience Requirements:
    • Technical & Product Background: 3+ years of experience in software product development, technical systems analysis, or engineering. Candidates must demonstrate a clear ability to decompose complex system logic into granular, testable specifications.
  • Preferred Qualifications:
    • Clinical Exposure: Experience with clinical EEG workflows or neurodiagnostic equipment; alternatively, a demonstrated aptitude for learning complex clinical workflows to bridge user needs with technical feasibility.
    • Industry Knowledge: Experience in a medical device or similarly regulated environment, specifically with hardware/software integration such as signal acquisition, amplifiers, or sensors.
  • Agile Proficiency: Previous experience in a Product Owner or Business Analyst role using Agile/Scrum methodologies and project management tools like Azure DevOps or Jira.

Physical Requirements / Working Conditions:

  • Physical Demands: Positions working with Cadwell equipment may require reaching, bending, stooping, and lifting/carrying up to 50 pounds; finger dexterity for repetitive motions; and visual acuity including color vision.
  • Location: Strong preference is to be based out of headquarters in Kennewick, WA. Will consider remote for the right candidate.
  • Travel: Travel to various commercial events and key customer sites is required (approximately 10-15% if in Kennewick, up to 30% if remote).
  • Compliance: Role supported by a dedicated Quality and Regulatory (QARA) team; however, the PO must ensure products adhere to clinical data integrity and medical device standards (FDA, HIPAA, etc.).

Credentialing: May be required to register with a vendor credentialing service and complete a US federal background check for access to government facilities.

Cadwell Industries, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such affirms the right of every person to participate in all aspects of employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. If you are interested in applying for employment and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply for a posted position, contact our Human Resources Department at careers@cadwell.com.

Salary Range

$120,000 - $140,000 USD

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