We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 19 May 2025

 

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 is required to be onsite in Newton MA and would require up to 10 - 25% travel (Domestic & International)  
 

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. 

 

Medtronic is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Electrophysiology expert to become a Principal Software Product Owner with our Affera Mapping and Ablation System Software Team. This role is pivotal in defining and prioritizing software work items including new product enhancements, anomaly fixes, infrastructure, and other items for cardiac mapping and ablation medical devices.  

 

The Principal Software Product Owner will be a key player in the Cardiac Ablation Solutions Affera Software Team, working on cutting-edge technology in the electrophysiology field. This role offers a rare chance to be at the forefront of developing a groundbreaking technology that can disrupt the industry. The ideal candidate is deeply passionate about guiding a software teams’ work in making a tangible difference in patients' lives.  

 

They should have broad experience in the electrophysiology field, with a strong understanding of mapping and ablation systems used in the lab.   The ability to quickly understand and evaluate relative priority of potential enhancements and fixes is key to the role.  They will take ownership of defining software features and other work, collaborating closely with software engineers and other engineering teams to understand definition and effort.  They will establish strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, and be able to define and prioritize software development, documentation, and testing tasks for developers and testers, considering cross-functional dependencies and overall business goals. 

 

Experience working in the medical device industry with understanding of regulations such as 21CFR Part 820 and IEC 62304 following a formal product development process is preferred. The ideal candidate has excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to condense highly complex technical topics into concise, clear requirements and direction. 

 

About the Affera Mapping and Ablation System 

The Affera Mapping and Ablation System is an innovative medical technology designed to treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias. The system involves advanced mapping techniques to create detailed images of the heart's electrical activity, helping physicians identify abnormal areas causing arrhythmias. Once identified, the Affera Ablation System delivers targeted energy to disrupt these abnormal signals, restoring normal heart rhythm.  

Primary Responsibilities 

• Define and prioritize software work for the Affera Mapping and Ablation systems across multiple workstreams, geographies, and releases. 

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to understand business need-by dates and capabilities, building and executing software release plans to ensure critical milestones are achieved. 

• Lead software teams in efficient sizing activities to better understand effort required for work items. 

• Identify dependencies between programs and workstreams, ensuring technical and organizational building blocks are ordered correctly for exe