Systems Engineering - Agile Product Owner

Seeking HARDWARE ENGINEERING experience (not software engineering) - preferably in medical device product development

As a Systems Engineering - Agile Product Owner, you will be responsible for maximizing the value of the products created by a scrum development team, understanding engineering details while seeing the high level solution, maintaining schedule and meeting commitments. The Product Owner (PO), needs to have a solid understanding of users and of future trends for the domain or type of system being developed in order to make sound decisions.
 
 Responsibilities include:
 • Translating the customer/end user needs into a vision of what needs to be developed, and conveys the vision to the scrum team 
 • Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements 
 • Ensuring the team has an adequate amount of prepared tasks prior to work start 
 • Planning and prioritizing product feature backlog and development 
 • Defining product vision, road-map and growth opportunities 
 • Assessing value, developing cases, and prioritizing stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value and are aligned with product strategy 
 • Providing backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories 
 • Leading product release planning and setting expectation for delivery of new functionalities 
 • Actively mitigate impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals 
 • Engaging with team, participating in design decisions, daily scrums, release planning, sprint planning, retrospectives, demonstrations 
 • Working with leadership and across teams to limit design/workload volatility for developers 
 • Interfacing between the Customer, end users, program management, engineering leadership and system architects, developers and the integration and test teams 
 • Ensuring clear communication between stakeholders and teams, gaining buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and providing clear strategy, instructions and deliverables to the developers 
 
 Required Experience, Knowledge and/or Skills: 
 • Bachelor degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, or biomedical) and 8 years of engineering management experience 
 • In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles 
 • Experience in an Agile or DevOps development environment 
 • Understanding of the product lifecycle and change management process 
 • Experience in functional decomposition, use case development, interface analysis and definition 
 • Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills 
 • Proven ability to meet timelines 
 • Knowledge of component level integration and test 
 • Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with all levels of management and individual contributors on the program team 
 
 Desired Experience, Knowledge and/or Skills: 
 • Electromechanical medical device development 
 • Experience using DOORS 
 • Domain experience preferred 

Thank you,
Sachin P,
510-402-1063
sachin@apninc.com

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