At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. 

  

A Day in the Life 

Product owner

Senior Software Product Owner with 8+ years of experience in Agile and Stakeholder Management. Should have worked in a dynamic environment while handling multiple projects parallelly. Previous medical domain experience is preferred. 

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. 

Product Vision & Strategy: 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define product vision, strategy, and roadmap that align with business goals and customer needs. 

• Clearly communicate the product vision to the scrum team and ensure alignment with the business' strategic objectives. 

Product Backlog Management: 

• Collaborate with global Systems lead to manage the product backlog, ensuring that it is well-groomed. 

• Write clear and actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and other relevant documentation. 

• Translate high level strategy product direction into work breakdown and prioritization for the backlog 

• Continuously refine and prioritize the backlog based on changing requirements, marketing feedback, and technical feasibility. 

Stakeholder Engagement: 

• Act as the primary point of contact between business unit stakeholders and the scrum team. 

• Gather and translate business requirements into product features and functionality in collaboration with global Systems lead 

• Regularly communicate progress, updates, and risks to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment. 

• Experience working with distributed teams across time zones 

  

Sprint Planning & Execution: 

• Collaborate with the scrum team during sprint planning, ensuring that high-priority tasks are selected for development. 

• Experience with agile product development including requirements and work management in epics and stories 

• Participate in daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to provide guidance and clarity on product requirements. 

• Ensure that the development team fully understands the features and delivers high-quality, customer-focused products. 

• Identifying product risks early and driving mitigation strategies 

  

  Success Measurement: 

• Define and track product backlog readiness and make data-driven decisions for future improvements 

• Having a complete overview of the quality standards of the product and guide the team accordingly 

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

• Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. 

• Solid understanding of software development processes & functional use cases and the ability to effectively communicate with technical teams. 

• Experience in working on Mobile, Web and cloud based applications. 

• Practical knowledge of Product and its usecases 

• Requires a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience as a PO and managing the stakeholders 

• Readiness to understand and enhance the product functionally 

• Should be excellent in stakeholder management 

• Experienced in managing teams with end to end product accountability 

• Excellent communication skills 

• Should have handled dynamic work environment and show flexibility in playing multiple roles where needed to ensure the product commitments and quality 

• Proven track record of building effective, collaborative relationships with BU 

• Should be instrumental in engaging and driving any process changes 

• Agile/Scrum Knowledge: Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum. Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification is a must. Certified Scrum Master is a plus. 

• Leadership: Strong leadership abilities to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority and drive results. 

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering 

Communication and Influence: 

• Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors. 

• Exchange information of facts, status, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decision-making. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate product vision, requirements, and priorities. 

Leadership and Talent Management: 

• May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area. 

• May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product. 

Good to Have: 

• Familiarity with medical device regulations (e.g., FDA, MDR, ISO 13485, IEC 62304) 

• Familiarity with Figma, or similar tools 

 

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

 

 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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