Principal Technical Product Owner
About The Position
The Principal Technical Product Owner defines, prioritizes, and delivers the technology roadmap for CareLink, MiniMed’s cloud-based diabetes data and digital health platform. The role connects product management, software engineering, cloud technology, data, and clinical needs, translating business and customer requirements into scalable, secure, high-quality technology solutions. The role partners with software architects, engineering, quality, cybersecurity, data science, UX, clinical, and business stakeholders to establish product vision, technical capabilities, and delivery priorities. It owns the product backlog and works with cross-functional teams to break complex capabilities into epics, features, and user stories, while maintaining alignment with enterprise and medical-device software standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience, or a PhD and at least 3 years of relevant experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a scientific discipline and 7 or more years of technical engineering professional experience.
- Master’s degree in engineering or a scientific discipline and 5 or more years of technical engineering professional experience.
- Strong organizational acumen and ability to communicate effectively with non-technical audiences.
- Deep expertise in software test methodologies and quality standards/metrics.
- Experience with APIs and data platforms, and familiarity with JSON and YAML data formats.
- Experience in a regulated environment.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the technical product roadmap for CareLink cloud capabilities.
- Translate customer, clinical, business, and technical needs into clear product requirements and prioritized backlogs.
- Partner with architects and engineering leaders to define scalable cloud architectures, APIs, data platforms, integrations, and platform capabilities.
- Decompose high-level concepts into epics, features, and actionable user stories.
- Prioritize work by balancing business value, technical feasibility, security, quality, regulatory requirements, and delivery timelines.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data Science, Quality, Cybersecurity, and Clinical teams.
- Define acceptance criteria and ensure delivered capabilities meet intended product outcomes and quality expectations.
- Identify opportunities to modernize and modularize CareLink capabilities while improving scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Support adoption of emerging technologies, including AI/GenAI, automation, cloud-native technologies, and data-driven capabilities.
- Establish effective Agile/JIRA processes and improve transparency across planning, execution, dependencies, and releases.
- Monitor product performance, technical health, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress, and communicate status to leadership.
- Ensure technology decisions support CareLink’s long-term evolution as a secure, reliable, and scalable digital health platform.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and flexible benefits package.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account.
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account.
- Life insurance.
- Long-term disability leave.
- Dependent daycare spending account.
- Incentive plans.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Short-term disability coverage.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement for eligible employees.
- Capital Accumulation Plan for eligible employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
