Product Owner - Sr. Software Systems Engineer

About the position

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. In the role as Product Owner, you will work with the Product Design team to advance existing technology or introduce new technology and therapies, specifically in the area of Digital Health. You will work with key stakeholders to understand needs, prioritize features, define and deliver features in the feature backlog. Additionally, the individual will be responsible for building tight collaboration and a culture of trust within the Digital Health organization.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for intake of needs from the Marketing and closely connecting with the customer to understand the value and problem to solve.
• Responsible for deep engagement with the customer to understand the needs being presented and subsequently, build the desired behavior of the features based on the customer feedback.
• Connect with the customer to ensure the Agile Release are continually building the right things and building them right.
• In close partnership with Marketing, apply a customer-centric mindset along with design thinking tools to guide the product releases toward delivering solutions that are desirable, viable, feasible and sustainable.
• Understand from the Marketing the themes prioritized, vision, product roadmap and definition of quantified value.
• Identify the problem to be solved. Identifying problems that customers want to be solved is the first element of design thinking.
• Responsible for managing and prioritizing the team backlog and ensuring that it aligns to customer and stakeholder needs.
• Collaborate with the architects to define technical and design discovery required for a feature.
• Intake input/feedback/insights from customers, stakeholders, and the scrum team and understand the needs around the voices to evaluate value accordingly and make an informed decision.
• Collaborates with Business Analyst to ensure solutions are understood and aligned to features that need to be developed.
• Collaborates with UI/UX Designer to ensure design meets customer needs.
• Help HealthCast portfolio innovate digital solutions in the medical and home care space by engaging Systems thinking.
• Organizational collaborator on DH enabled initiatives to leverage cross disciplinary and globally distributed teams to craft high-quality products and services that customers love and drive preference.
• Collaborate with other leaders to ensure successful development, release, and launch of world-class product (portfolio/program).

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in the medical device industry in systems, digital or software development with proven track record.
• Experience in 5+ major product or portfolio releases.
• Ability to quickly understand complex system behaviors, engineering problems, technical and architectural constraints.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an aptitude for convincing others, both internally and externally, of the value of their ideas.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of the Agile methodology.
• Experience in a regulated product industry.

Benefits

• Health, Dental and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Tuition assistance/reimbursement
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
• Short-term disability
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
• Capital Accumulation Plan