Jobs / United States / Abbott Laboratories
Sr. Software Product Owner
Abbott Laboratories · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 28 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Abbott Laboratories paid sponsored hires in similar roles12 certified filings for “Senior Analyst, Workday Reporting” (Software Developers) in IL: $131k–$169k, median $142k. Most were filed at wage level IV (42%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Abbott Laboratories
The US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 28 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Position Overview The Lead Software Product Owner works in a highly dynamic environment, engaging and coordinating the activities with internal stakeholders, enterprise architects, software developers, quality assurance, customer experience, contractors, and third-party vendors to drive flawless development of critical software products. This role will gather, define, and translate user needs and business requirements into viable software product requirements across the software development lifecycle. As we operate in a regulated Genomics CLIA laboratory, producing clear and concise requirements and documentation is of the utmost importance. This position requires significant experience and technical knowledge in developing complex and sophisticated clinical genomics software and proven success driving software development initiatives by collaborating with cross-functional team members (Clinical Development, Laboratory Operations, Medical Affairs, Bioinformatics, Engineer, etc.) to ensure software product meet user and business needs. This person is comfortable with leveraging data to make product decisions and has proven experience analyzing and optimizing user experience and business processes. This person may lead and mentor junior product owners. Essential Duties • Include, but are not limited to, the following: • Serve as a central resource to evaluate, develop, and recommend technical software solutions during the product lifecycle throughout conceptualization, product roadmap development, execution, and launch based on a deep understanding of business goals, user needs, and jobs-to-be-done. • Proactively understand the current business processes and conceptualize innovative solutions to create efficiencies around them. • Drive and track execution of product strategy and roadmap by creation of release plans, and lead sprint grooming, sprint planning, and successful software delivery. • Gather and define user needs business requirements and translate them into epics and a prioritized backlog of user stories with functional software requirements to guide software development to support clinical genomics sample-to-answer workflows. • Analyze existing product requirements against unmet user needs, current pain points, and business opportunities and devise product growth strategies for implementation of new features and processes into the product lifecycle, in the lens of excellent user experience. • Analyze, manage, and track the status of requirements throughout the product and development lifecycle; enforce and redefine, as necessary. • Collaborate with stakeholders and project team to define, prioritize, and complete software product strategy, roadmap, and product requirements. • Produce flow diagrams, process and dataflow maps, wireframes, and prototypes with detailed product requirements to facilitate a better understanding of end-user use cases, pain points, and opportunities to guide the software development team. • Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirement documentation, user documentation, and presentations to end-users, stakeholders, and senior leadership. • Provide business area expertise to developers and software quality assurance (QA) during the Software Development Life Cycle. • Provide insight to the Quality Assurance (QA) team to develop verification, integration, and validation test plans and protocols. • Maintain bus