Product Owner - HR (Remote)

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This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
The HR Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of enterprise HR technology solutions by deeply understanding stakeholder needs and translating them into effective, scalable product capabilities. This role serves as the primary liaison between HR, business stakeholders, and technical delivery teams, ensuring that HR processes are efficient, meet strategic objectives, enhance employee experience, and operate successfully across the all Stanford Healthcare entities.

The HR Product Owner owns the vision and roadmap for an assigned HR product and manages the end-to-end solution lifecycle—from discovery and prioritization through delivery, test, adoption, and continuous improvement.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Build strong partnerships with other Product Owners, HR Functional Areas, TDS/IT, and business stakeholders.

• Elicit, analyze, and prioritize business requirements and translate them into actionable user stories and requirements.

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for assigned enterprise HR experiences.

• Lead solution delivery, in partnership with agile delivery teams and vendors to drive successful design, configuration, testing and implementation.

• Ensure solutions comply with data privacy, security, and regulatory standards.

• Support change management, adoption, training, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Participate in and lead projects identified and defined by HR and TDS/IT Leadership with minimal supervision

• Keep up with industry and technology trends and recommending features and functionality to meet business needs.

• Build and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction through timely communication, transparency, problem solving, and fact-based decision making.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a work-related discipline/field from an accredited college or university.

Experience Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in HR systems, product ownership, or HR technology roles.

• Experience with enterprise HR platforms (e.g., Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, UKG, ServiceNow HRSD, Skillsoft and other Learning Technologies).

• Experience working in agile or hybrid delivery models.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Stakeholder management and executive communication.

• Strategic thinking and prioritization.

• User-centric and data-driven mindset.

• Strong collaboration across HR and IT.

• Digital Transformation.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 2+ Years in a Product Owner or Agile role.

• Experience supporting large or global HR environments.

• Experience managing vendors and system integrators.

• Stakeholders are confident in HR technology solutions.

• HR systems are stable, scalable, and aligned with business strategy.

• Enhancements deliver measurable business value.

• Employee and manager experience continuously improves.

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care

• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health

• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.