Principal Software Product Owner

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 LifeIn this role, you will join a world class team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers responsible for further development and enhancement of the globally launched Robotic Assisted Surgery platform within the Surgical Operating unit: https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/robotic-assisted-surgery/hugo-ras-system.html
Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is one new, powerful operating unit bringing together the people and product portfolio of Surgical Robotics and Surgical Innovations. With the Medtronic Mission as our North Star, we will build on our legacy of proven surgical solutions and advance the promise of robotics and digital solutions for the benefit of the customers and patients we serve.
Make your impact by exploring a career with the world’s leading Medical Device company, striving “to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.”

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

As a Principal SW Product Owner you will lead the product development efforts in the Software Center of Excellence of the Surgical Robotics Organization. You will work with multiple stakeholders from an all-access position within the Software Engineering Center of Excellence to prioritize and define the scope of the development work. You will work with scrum teams to develop, groom and prioritize the backlog using SAFe framework for scaled agile development. Collaborate closely with cross functional stakeholders including – Core teams, PMO, UX/UI, systems, hardware, and many others to define user needs and requirements. You will work on developing next-generation instruments and platform for the Hugo Surgical Robot. You will work in a fast-paced and highly regulated environment with a cross functional group of highly talented software developers, test engineers and quality engineers, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and design next generation of features for the Hugo system, complete requirements definition, design, code implementation, unit test, and software and system verification and validation.  You will also participate in SAFe/Agile activities including but not limited to (Increment Planning, Increment Review, Feature refinement…etc) 

As a SW Product Owner, you will help create our market-leading portfolio of innovations. If you want a challenging, energizing, rewarding career that changes lives, join us. Help us bring the next generation of life-changing medical technology to patients worldwide. 

• As a product owner Lead Scrum Team(s) through the SWDLC for medical devices following IEC 62304.
• Work with different stakeholders and Cross-function team to prioritize team work according to business needs.
• Lead the prioritization and refinement activities to your team(s) backlog(s)
• Determine and prioritize features, enhancements, and fixes based on user feedback, market analysis, and business value.
•  collaborate with stakeholders to gather input, provide updates, and align product strategies with their needs and expectations.
• Act as the voice of the customer to the scrum team(s) in the different SAFe/Agile sprint meetings, championing and supervising value-focused user stories, and determining Definition of Done / acceptance criteria.
• Balance and drive consensus on inputs from multiple stakeholders, anchoring priorities in direct user research
• Observe usability testing and OR procedures.
• Participate in Risk Assessment and requirements development.
• Cross-function collaboration with manufacturing and production.
• Participate in the documentation of the software including architecture and design detail, unit testing, anomaly tracking and reports.
• Cross function team collaboration with our HW and systems partners, including integration team, testing team, Quality, System V&V…etc.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Requires a bachelor’s engineering degree and minimum of 12 years of relevant experience, or advanced engineering degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience. 
• Experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager of at least 3 years working on complex products.
• Experience leading multiple teams as a product owner
• Experience leading distributed teams as a product owner
• Formal Scrum/SAFe certification and experience
• Experience working on hybrid HW/SW product using scaled agile framework (any)
• Familiarity of object-oriented design and modern programming languages with preference to – C++, python, simulink.
• Previous Hands-on experience in developing, debugging, and troubleshooting SW issues.
• Experience in software architecture design, writing design documents, creating flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts.
• Understanding and appreciation of SDLC process and tools (e.g. JIRA, Bitbucket, Stash, Confluence, JAMA, Git, CMake.)
• Good understanding of software concepts and Software Development life cycle using IEC 62304.
• Experience independently managing and prioritizing design approach to multiple projects (e.g. consultancy) or complex systems (e.g. medical systems); experience with timelines and budgeting.
• Ability to distill software requirements from system requirements.
• Experience in software development in medical devices industry, is a big plus.
• Experience or basic understanding of surgical robotics is a plus.
• Experience working with highly regulated environments
• Experience working with medical devices and regulation -  ISO 13485 and 14971, GMP guidelines, FDA regulations, Software as medical devices, and IEC 62304.
• Experience performing risk management analysis of software ideally using SW FMEA
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical engineering, or related fields. Master’s or Ph.D. degree in related discipline is preferred.  

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 90,000+ 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