Associate Product Owner - Nursing Handoff

About the role

The Associate Product Owner (APO), Nursing Handoff supports the Product Owner in the execution and delivery of digital nursing handoff capabilities that improve continuity of care, communication quality, patient safety, and frontline nursing efficiency. This role translates the established product vision, strategy, and priorities into clearly defined requirements, workflow designs, acceptance criteria, and delivered outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Execute against the Nursing Handoff product vision, strategy, and roadmap established by the Product Owner.
• Own delivery of assigned nursing handoff features, workflows, integrations, analytics, and adoption initiatives, ensuring alignment with product OKRs.
• Translate nursing, operational, patient safety, compliance, and technical needs into detailed, well-structured user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Ensure requirements are implementation-ready and aligned with nursing workflows, interdisciplinary communication needs, regulatory expectations, technical constraints, and operational realities.
• Own the mechanisms and delivery of requirements with engineering, data engineering, clinical informatics, nursing operations, and facility stakeholder teams for assigned scope.
• Partner with data engineering to define analytical requirements, data dependencies, adoption metrics, handoff quality measures, patient safety indicators, and reporting timelines.
• Own delivery of dashboards, reporting, and lever-based analytics solutions that measure handoff completion, standardization, usability, adoption, and product outcomes.
• Career Development: Serve as a leadership partner to the Product Owner, contributing to leadership-facing discussions and reviews while owning delivery execution within defined scope. This role is designed for developing product leaders building toward full Product Owner accountability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare, Nursing, Business Administration, Computer Science, Health Informatics, or other related fields.
• Master's degree in Healthcare, Nursing, Business, Informatics, or related field (MSN, MBA, MHA, MS or equivalent).
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience and expertise in clinical operations, digital health, product delivery, or the nursing handoff domain, ensuring alignment with business objectives and product goals while fostering effective collaboration within cross-functional teams.
• 7+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, healthcare operations, clinical informatics, or a related business role.
• Prior experience delivering digital products, workflow optimization, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, or clinical technology solutions with strong stakeholder relationships and advocacy for frontline users.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams with multiple skillsets to fulfill a complex and aspirational business objective.
• Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
• Licenses, Certifications, & Training: Certified Scrum Product Owner or similar Agile certification Preferred.
• Clinical, informatics, nursing, or healthcare technology certification relevant to assigned domain Preferred.

Qualifications

• Nursing Handoff Domain Acumen: Working knowledge of nursing handoff workflows, clinical documentation expectations, operational handoffs, data dependencies, adoption considerations, and risks that may affect product value realization.
• 25% travel.

Benefits

At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to fostering a culture of growth that allows you to build the career of a lifetime. We encourage you to apply for our Associate Product Owner today. We review all applications promptly, and qualified candidates will be contacted to continue the process. Join us! We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.