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

This position will be responsible for establishing/enabling the vitality and growth for the portfolio by creating strategic partnerships and effective governance through efficient use of Medtronic’s resources and tools. The individual will work closely with the cross-functional platform leader & team teams in MEIC and GBUs. The individual will lead the Strategy roadmap for the feature/component of the overall solution, partnering with other members on the PO & Marketing Team Members. This position will play a vital role in growing business engagements & enabling value-add by focusing on patient and clinician needs.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Seasoned Product Owner with Product Management experience
• Act as the leader of the project team, driving end-to-end execution and accountability.
• Accountable for a product's impact on customers, users
• Leads or leverages cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate, develop, and manage new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products and processes
• Assesses product issues and develops resolutions to meet market requirements, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives
• Partners closely and serves as a liaison between Product Management and  Technical Execution Team (System Engineer, Architect, UI/UX Designers, DevOps, Testers, Scrum Master, etc.)
• Develop mechanisms to understand project progress and for intervention and problem solving with product managers, Scrum master, and other key stakeholders
• Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation, and requirements management to ensure they meet the demands of market requirements and key stakeholders
• Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems
• Leads a shared understanding of ”What” we should build and be able to justify “Why” through discussion and documentation
• Extends shared understanding with the scrum teams who will be executing
• Plays a critical role in sprint demos by utilizing it as a feedback loop for validation of intended impact
• Makes the decision on when enough value has been created to close user stories and ready for release
• Point person to ensure all deliverables are prioritized

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 14 + years of relevant experience with 5+ years in Product Owner in Web/ Mobile Space. 
•  Awareness of Industry tools for VOC. Requirement prioritization, Roadmap & long-term solution Strategy
• Good to have experience in medical devices or other regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of agile development principles and practices, including Scrum and Kanban
• Excellent communication, collaboration, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Familiarity with agile tools such as JIRA or similar software tools
• Experience with product management and product development processes, including user research, market analysis, and product road mapping
• Software Development experience in Agile or Waterfall methodologies especially worked on SDLC.
• Excellent interpersonal and influence management skills including evidence of managing multi-discipline teams
• Technical Understanding and Business Acumen
• Knowledge of Product Life Cycle
• Familiarity with FDA Quality System Regulations (820.30 design controls), European Regulatory Requirements (ISO 13485), and specifically IEC-62304.
• Lean Mindset and proven experience around ‘Build, Measure, Learn (repeat)’
• Demonstrates ability to problem solve
• Team oriented – ability to motivate and work well with diverse, cross-functional teams
• Proven ability to influence and negotiate internally and with customers.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Medical device product/industry/technical acumen
• Proven ability to work globally
• Strong analytical and process skills
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to work effectively within a matrix environment
• Ability to effectively handle conflict through proactive action, and direct and timely communication
• Experience in working with teams with a diverse cultural background
• Effective planning and organization skills, including the proven ability to work against multiple objectives 

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here