Senior Product Owner

Title: Senior Product Owner

Location: St. Paul, MN

Duration: 11 months

Job Description:

Leading an active lifestyle is important to the many people we serve. In client's Electrophysiology and Heart Failure division, we're advancing the treatment of heart and vascular disease through breakthrough medical technologies in electrophysiology and heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Position Summary:

As a Senior Product Owner, you will be a critical contributor in the development and deployment of software solutions to support our development programs and build compelling products within client's Electrophysiology Division. You will be responsible for leading feature teams in the development of complex software applications that include signal processing, algorithms, and visualization in a real-time environment. You will also be working with our emerging cloud and analytics programs. All this will happen in an environment that emphasizes a robust cybersecurity and patient privacy focus. You will participate in all phases of the software lifecycle, including concept development, requirements, design, implementation, and testing.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead application feature definition activities working cross-functionally with Software Development, Systems Engineering, Human Factors, Clinical Engineering, and other stakeholders.
• Work in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks.
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Contribute to overall project success and define necessary activities to achieve desired business results.
• Identify, quantify, and resolve technical risks that may require cross-functional collaboration to resolve complex system interactions
• Manage and write System and subsystem requirements, including definition, decomposition, analysis, and traceability, to ensure clear and unambiguous software requirements
• Play a key role in the software/hardware integration. Collaborate with Systems Verification, Pre-Clinical engineering, and other stakeholders to do root cause analysis and solution generation
• Review software designs to ensure they implement the appropriate software behavior and requirements
• Ensure that all activities conform to Quality and compliance requirements
• As a team leader, mentor and guide other team members to facilitate completion of various project activities, from definition, identifying software functional requirements, test reviews, traceability, and final release according to medical device development processes.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Computer, Electrical, Computer Systems, Systems, or Software), Computer Science, or related discipline
• 10+ years of software engineering design and development or systems engineering experience
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience working with C++
• Experience with creating and managing requirements and translating them into effective architectures and software design
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate to all levels of the organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Engineering (Computer, Electrical, Computer Systems, or Software), Computer Science, or related discipline
• Knowledge of 62304 and other standards applicable to Class II and Class III medical devices
• Previous experience working in a regulated industry such as automotive, aerospace, healthcare, or defense
• Well versed in draft FDA Cybersecurity Guidance and GDPR
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship
• Experience with complex electromechanical systems including hardware, embedded firmware, disposables, and software
• Academic GPA: 3.0 plus