About the position
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. In 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. Medtronic’s Surgical Operating Unit is a 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. Located at the Medtronic office in the Seaport District of Boston, MA, as a 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 the 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 the 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Champion and supervise value-focused user stories, and determine 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.
Requirements
- Requires a bachelor’s degree and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager of at least 3 years working on complex products.
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
- 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 or complex systems.
- Experience in software development in medical devices industry.
- Experience or basic understanding of surgical robotics.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
- 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
- Capital Accumulation Plan
