The Role: How you'll make an impact at Buddy Healthcare
Buddy Healthcare is a Finnish health technology company that develops a Care Coordination Platform for hospitals and patients. We’re now looking for a Product Owner to join our team and help shape the next generation of our digital care coordination platform.
The Product Owner is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and validating the features of Buddy Healthcare’s digital care coordination platform. This role bridges clinical, technical, and regulatory perspectives to ensure that every product increment delivers user and business value while maintaining compliance with MDR (EU) 2017/745 and ISO 13485 standards.
The Product Owner works within a cross-functional Scrum team to drive the product vision, ensure clarity of requirements, and maintain alignment between design, development, testing, and quality management processes. We’re open to different strengths, this role could suit either a Product Owner with a technical background (software development, architecture, integrations, APIs), clinical expertise from healthcare (digital healthcare, carepath, clinical validation). or one with a design/UX focus who excels at user-centred product development.
In the end we are looking for a great teammate to grow with us - great candidates come from many backgrounds. If you have the drive to learn, adapt, and contribute to building better digital healthcare solutions then please apply, even if you don’t meet every requirement today.
Role Responsibilities: What you'll do
Product Management & Backlog Ownership
Own and maintain the product backlog in Jira.
Translate high-level business, designs and clinical requirements into well-defined user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
Prioritize backlog items based on value, risk, and regulatory impact.
Ensure traceability from requirements to verification and validation activities as per MDR requirements.
Agile Delivery & Collaboration
Participate actively in all Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
Collaborate with VP of Product, designers, developers, and testers to refine specifications and verify that deliverables meet acceptance criteria.
Facilitate end-of-phase reviews and ensure readiness for release approvals.
Act as a link between customer needs, product strategy, and technical implementation.
Regulatory & Quality Responsibilities
Work with our Quality Manager to ensure product documentation complies with IEC 62304 and ISO 13485 requirements.
Participate in CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) handling for product-related non-conformities.
Oversee design verification, validation, and transfer activities in collaboration with Quality Manager and VP of Product.
Ensure traceability of all design inputs, outputs, tests, and risk assessments.
Stakeholder Communication
Communicate product status, risks, and roadmap updates to internal stakeholders and clinical partners.
Help gather and evaluate feedback from end users, customers, and internal teams to guide product evolution.
Support customer communication for new features, updates, and incident handling.
Contact & Additional Info
This is a full-time position based in Finland, with hybrid flexibility.
Our process is as follows
Short phone interview – an initial chat to get to know you and your background.
Assignment + on-site interview – a practical exercise to completed before an interview at our Helsinki office.
On-site interview with the team – deeper conversation about your skills, ways of working, and alignment with our product vision.
If this sounds like you and you’d like to become one of the Buddies, send us your CV and a short cover letter (max. one A4) explaining why you’re the right fit. The salary range for this position is €5,500–6,500 per month, depending on your skills and experience. The role will start as soon as we find the right candidate.
For more information, please contact:
Pekka Front, VP of Product
pekka.front@buddyhealthcare.com
About us
At Buddy Healthcare, we're transforming the way hospitals deliver care. Our platform helps healthcare professionals coordinate and manage patient care pathways, making treatment faster, smarter, and more efficient. We use data to continuously improve how care is delivered, ensuring patients get the right treatment at the right time. With a strong focus on innovation and global impact, we're aiming to become the world leader in care pathway orchestration, and we're growing rapidly. If you're passionate about making a real difference in healthcare, Buddy is the place to be!
Our Values
- Dedication - We help people:
The individual and their well-being is the most important thing for us. Digitalisation helps us reach our goals, making a real-life impact.
- Inclusivity - We are close:
We give everyone a genuine chance to be heard, with time to listen. We take no one for granted and respect each other as equals. Any time someone needs help, we are there for them.
- Honesty - We keep our promises:
Doing our job properly is a matter of honour for us. We are ambitious professionals and we know that the best results are achieved through teamwork.
Open Application?
Buddy Healthcare is always on the lookout for talented individuals, particularly in
R&D,
Sales, and
Customer Success. If you are passionate about healthcare technology and want to be part of a growing company driving innovation in patient care, we encourage you to submit an open application. We are especially interested in candidates based in
Finland or the
UK. Send your CV and a cover letter detailing how you can contribute to careers@buddyhealthcare.com.
