Principal Technical Product Owner

The Principal Technical Product Owner will lead the technology roadmap for CareLink, MiniMed’s cloud-based diabetes data and digital health platform. This role translates stakeholder needs into secure, scalable, and high-quality capabilities while coordinating across multiple product and engineering functions.

Role Overview

Define, prioritize, and deliver the technology roadmap for CareLink cloud capabilities. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to convert business, clinical, customer, and technical requirements into actionable product plans and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the technical product roadmap for CareLink cloud capabilities.
• Translate customer, clinical, business, and technical needs into product requirements and prioritized backlogs.
• Collaborate with architects and engineering leadership to define scalable cloud architecture, APIs, data platforms, integrations, and platform capabilities.
• Lead decomposition from high-level concepts into epics, features, and actionable user stories.
• Prioritize work by balancing business value, technical feasibility, security, quality, regulatory requirements, and delivery timelines.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data Science, Quality, Cybersecurity, and Clinical teams.
• Define acceptance criteria and confirm delivered capabilities meet intended product outcomes and quality expectations.
• Identify opportunities to modernize and modularize CareLink capabilities to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Support adoption of emerging technologies, including AI/GenAI, automation, cloud-native technologies, and data-driven capabilities.
• Establish effective Agile and JIRA processes to increase transparency across planning, execution, dependencies, and releases.
• Monitor product performance, technical health, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress, and communicate status to leadership.
• Ensure technology decisions support CareLink’s long-term evolution as a secure, reliable, and scalable digital health platform.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum 7 years of relevant experience.
• OR Master’s degree with minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• OR PhD with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.

Technologies

• AI/GenAI
• Agile
• JIRA
• APIs
• Cloud-native technologies
• JSON
• YAML

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a scientific discipline with 7+ years of technical engineering professional experience.
• OR Master’s degree in engineering or a scientific discipline with 5+ years of technical engineering professional experience.
• Strong organizational capability with effective communication to non-technical audiences.
• Deep expertise in software test methodologies and quality standards or metrics.
• Experience with APIs and data platforms, including familiarity with JSON and YAML data formats.
• Experience in a regulated environment.

Compensation

USD 138,000 - 261,000 per year.

Location

Northridge, CA (onsite).

Benefits

• Competitive salary and flexible benefits package
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability leave
• Dependent daycare spending account
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Short-term disability coverage
• Paid time off and holidays
• Participation in Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS minimum earnings requirements)
• Capital Accumulation Plan (subject to IRS minimum earnings requirements)

Physical Job Requirements

• For office roles: regularly required to be independently mobile.
• For office roles: required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.