Sr 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.

About the role

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.

As a Product Owner, you will be accountable for understanding and prioritizing features for the product in the feature backlog with the understanding to then allot the appropriate features to the feature roadmap based on the defined HealthCast vision. The Product Owner will also collaborate closely with Marketing for management and synthesis of needs to features for delivery in a release.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for intake of needs from 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 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 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

• 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.
• Minimum of 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 a plus.
• 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.

Qualifications

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.

Benefits

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
• Simple Steps (global well-being program)
• Incentive plans (Medtronic Incentive Plan - MIP)
• 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)
• 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.

Pay

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD): $120,800.00 - $181,200.00. This 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.