Senior Product Owner, Software Development

Many structural heart patients suffer from heart failure with limited options. Our Implantable Heart Failure Management (IHFM) team is at the forefront of addressing these unmet patient needs through pioneering technology that enables early, targeted therapeutic intervention. Our innovative solutions are not just transforming patient care but also creating a unique and exciting environment for our team members. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.

How you will make an impact:

Product Vision 

• Articulating the strategic vision of the product

• Developing and explicitly communicating intermediate strategic goals

• Propose how the product can tactically increase its value each Sprint

• Understand and shape the impact of the product on our company

• Ensure the Scrum Team is prepared to discuss the most important Product Backlog items for each spring
   

Influence 

• Actively manage stakeholders, their desires, expectations, and outcomes

• Create an effective communication strategy

• Influence the Developers during Sprint Planning by helping them select and understand trade-offs

• Work with Developers daily to clarify and renegotiate the Scope of the Sprint
   

Collaboration 

• Collaborating closely with the Developers & Stakeholders daily

• Keeping close contact with Support and QA teams to monitor customer complaints 

• Developing and communicating budget, investments, roadmaps, vision, & strategy

• Developing controls for a change, risk, quality, & incident management to enable professional Scrum

• Developing and influencing commercial contracts that align with the agile values and principles
   

Customer Experience 

• Understand the desired outcomes of customers within the bounds of the business constraints 

• Defining our product(s) and services and how customers will interact with them 

• Create and own a set us user proto-personas to drive user-centric development and testing 
   

Decision Making 

• Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood

• Ordering Product Backlog items

• Choosing what and when to release
   

Experimentation 

• Using evidence-based management techniques to optimize outcomes and value delivered

• Create hypothesis and craft experiments to test that hypothesis quickly

• Create and iterate on early product/feature conceptual development 

• Tracking product use and impact on end-users

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree in in related field, 10 years years experience of hands on experience managing projects and/or programs of increasing complexity

• Master's Degree or equivalent Preferred

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Advanced Scrum Product Owner certifications like PST, PSPO-II or A-CSP

• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), Modern Requirements for ADO 

• Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For Illinois, the base pay range for this position is $136,000 to $192,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).   

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

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