Product Owner

For Wedgewood’s Technology teams, the product owner role is critical for defining requirements, refining stories, managing the product backlog, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical delivery. The ideal candidate works with the assigned technology team and stakeholders to deliver high-quality products that meet customer and business needs. This is a hands-on execution role that ensures the team delivers on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.

What you’ll do:

Core Responsibilities
o As a product lead team member, work effectively with all product team members to ensure solutions and services capture and address all requirements across all teams.
o Partner with the Director of Product Management on large, complex initiatives to drive feature refinement and deliver assigned work. Maintaining effective synchronous and asynchronous communication is a must.
o Leverage product management, business analysis, and project management skills, processes, and techniques
o Capture, prioritize, and integrate feedback from customers, clients, and partners to shape product solutions and services that deliver measurable value.
o Translate business objectives and stakeholder input into well-structured epics, detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications that guide development.
o Maintain a healthy, actionable backlog by ensuring items are clearly defined, estimated, prioritized, and ready for development.
o Plan and prioritize features effectively across sprints to maximize customer value and team velocity.
o Serve as the go-to product expert for the team, responding to questions by continuously
deepening product knowledge and leveraging commercial and operational SMEs when needed.
o Collaborate closely with developers, QA, and stakeholders to clarify requirements, ensure successful feature delivery, and iterate based on feedback and performance insights.
o Monitor product performance and address production issues promptly, ensuring stability and customer satisfaction.
o Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, fostering alignment and transparency.
o Communicate progress, risks, and upcoming priorities through clear, timely updates to both the team and stakeholders.
o Effectively prioritize competing demands and deliver commitments.
o Identify and remove impediments to accelerate delivery and maximize customer value.
o Create sprint plans and lead sprint reviews, ensuring clarity of goals and visibility of outcomes.

Who You Are:
o Demonstrate exceptional organizational, time management, and communication skills
o Exhibit adaptability and a strong learning mindset.
o Quickly absorb new concepts, tools, and processes to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
o Build and maintain effective, trust-based relationships
o Foster collaboration and alignment among cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
o A reliable and transparent partner, ensuring shared understanding and mutual respect.
o Proactively seek feedback and apply learnings to improve product outcomes.
o Demonstrate continuous improvement and mastery of product management competencies to drive business and customer value.

About Us

Wedgewood is the nation’s largest and most trusted provider of compounded veterinary medications. Its recent merger with Blue Rabbit enables the company to provide veterinarians with next-generation software to streamline patient care and marks a significant evolution in
services. Together Blue Rabbit and Wedgewood serve more than 70,000 veterinary professionals and one million animals annually.
Wedgewood is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you require an accommodation due to a special need or disability, please let your recruiter know what accommodations you will need.