Technical Product Owner (Glenview, IL)*Please consider before applying:As this is a hybrid role, the selected candidate will be required to physically reside in Glenview, IL or nearby surrounding area. Position Overview:The primary responsibility of the Technical Product Owner is to prioritize and manage the product backlog, learning the customers and markets to deliver industry-leading software applications through documenting, analyzing, prioritizing, and agreeing on requirements for the engineering team.
Essential Functions:- Translate product road map to features
- Participate in daily Scrum ceremonies, leading refinement sessions, and engaging with implementation team
- Act as a liaison between cross-functional teams
- Manage product backlog, prioritize features, and create detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team
- Transform business priorities into technical requirements and engage thoroughly to ensure that business objectives are accomplished for PI
- Demonstrate sense of ownership
- Ability to communicate technical concepts, risks and dependencies and translate them into TFS/Azure work items or plans
- Writing and reviewing requirements as well as maintaining the requirements in our requirement systems cross platform
- Participating in scope discussions and facilitating the requirements elicitation process, leading from user needs, business needs, and regulatory requirements into well-documented requirements suitable for product development
- Contributing to and creating corporate procedures that are related to requirement management and system engineering
Required Skills (Knowledge and Skills needed for this position):
- Ability to document complex products and systems
- Demonstrate knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures in engineering and product development
- Demonstrate ability to think both strategically and tactically
- Thorough knowledge of both web-based and desktop applications
- Experience with Medical devices or regulated healthcare industry
- Ability to communicate across departments
- Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations
- Experience leading Agile ceremonies for Scrum teams and authoring features, user stories, acceptance criteria and related technical details
- The capacity to engage stakeholders and collaborate with them to define the team's requirements
- Working knowledge of Figma for reviewing UI designs
- Proficiency in Azure DevOps/TFS
Desired Qualifications: Education: Degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
Experience:- Strong technical understanding of requirements methodologies, tools and best practices
- 5+ years of software engineering, product development or related experience
- 3+ years' experience in project delivery role
- Experience in agile development, SAFe
- Medical device experience
- Solid understanding of regulatory requirements and business processes in the medical device industry - or any other regulated industry
Pay Transparency Notice:- The target annual compensation for this position can range from $100,000.00 - $115,000.00 with a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of the fiscal year-end.
- Compensation for roles at GN depends on a wide array of factors including but not limited to location, role, skill set, and level of experience
- To remain competitive, GN offers a competitive benefits package, including annual bonuses, health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid vacation and holidays
We encourage you to apply:We highly value a mindset, motivation, and energy, that aligns with our core values, to not only ensure growth for you, but for your team and the wider GN organization as well.
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