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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

Principal Software Product Owner

Careers That Change Lives

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations.

The Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Management group is looking for a Principal Product Owner to join our Software Operations Organization to in the defining of priorities for evolving our Shared Services platform as a product by balancing the inputs from internal and external stakeholders.

The Product Owner will work as the technical liaison between the platform team and the customers of the platform including software developers, operations teams, and other business customers. This role is ultimately responsible for understanding and interpreting the “What” and the “Why” for work direction at the team level to maximize value of the platform to the business and customers.

We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive.

This position is in Mounds View, MN. within the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) operating unit. At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We are working on-site 4 days per week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. This role will require less than 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

A Day in the Life:

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Principal Software Product Owner role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
• Supports 2-3 scrum teams focused on a common identity or capability
• Responsible for building and grooming product backlog, including writing epics, features, and stories for shared understanding and execution
• Writes and collects input for acceptance criteria at the user story level
• Work in lockstep with software development teams and delivery leaders to ensure priorities are clear, backlogs are executable, and messages to stakeholders are aligned
• Partners closely with the following to evolve product: Architect, DevOps Engineers, Technical Component Owner, Technical Leads, Software Developers, Testers, etc.
• Active change agent within the Software Operations and Software Development organization, helping the team(s) and the broader organization assimilate to change
• Syncs regularly with Product Owners from related capabilities and products to ensure cohesive customer experience across a product space
• Partners with platform customers and development teams to ensure platform releases are communicated effectively to understand features and dependencies of the updates for successful use by the customer.
• Accountable for a product’s impact on software developers, testers, customers, users, and Medtronic
• Establishes and drives toward key performance indicators (KPIs) of the platform including SLOs, and SLAs.
• Makes the decision on when enough value has been created to close work items

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Qualifications

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE, PLEASE BE SURE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ARE EVIDENT ON YOUR RESUME

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.
• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience, or advanced degree with minimum of 5 years relevant experience

NICE TO HAVE:

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Experience with Behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Skills in C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, AWS, Azure, Rest APIs, data services, AI/ML

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapi