Sr Product Owner

Product Owner

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

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 Include:

• 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)

Must Have: Minimum Qualifications

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

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires a Baccalaureate degree and minimum of 8 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with a minimum of 6 years relevant experience OR PhD with 4 years relevant experience.

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

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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.

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$120,800.00 - $181,200.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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 (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

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