Senior Technology Product Owner

Company Description

Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development. Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers.

We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

For more information, visit covista.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.


 

Job Description

As a Senior Technology Product Owner, you will help to define the vision of the portfolio and products we create; drive the planning, prioritization and execution of backlogs and deliver new features that support our strategic goals. You coach Technology Product Owners on understanding the relevant end to end business processes, underlying business capabilities and related journey maps and strategies that elevate both student and colleague experiences. You will be expected to understand, assess, and decompose prioritized initiatives into Portfolio and Product roadmaps. Working closely with your key stakeholders to ensure our planning closely aligns with overall business goals and objectives and with a mindset of driving focus to maximize value for both colleagues and customers.
 

• Leading and collaborating with Technology Product Owners, Digital Product Managers and peer group colleagues as well as other IT stakeholder groups towards finalizing short, mid and long terms initiative and product roadmaps aligned to business priorities and value, together with assessment of available capacity and indicative level of effort arising from the team landscape resulting in effectively sequenced and prioritized roadmaps.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, and service management teams, to ensure the overall roadmaps are balanced to ensure a scalable, user experience optimised, stable, and performant technology products, that continually meet business needs, ensuring NFR’s (Non Functional Requirements) and System enablers are considered and captured, and cascaded to the relevant teams.
• Define methodology for the analysis and response to target metrics and value post-delivery, including recommended improvements, for use during retrospective work sessions, and with an overall goal of driving increased use and adoption.
• Nurture and build relationships with senior colleagues across all business functions that are impacted by the assigned product and initiative portfolio and underlying business capabilities and technology solutions – use these relationships to collaborate on business outcome alignment, roadmap conceptualization and prioritization.
• Facilitate business process mapping and product mapping work sessions and actively participate in both functional and technological changes that can enhance the student and colleague experience as well as enable business growth and value.
• Working in partnership with applicable product vendors to understand vendor product roadmaps and how these can be exploited to deliver business goals and outcomes as well as ensuring timely feature/product upgrades, maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the assigned products. Minimize bespoke customization, and infl