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Zimmer Biomet is a global medical technology leader. Our team members are part of a company with a heritage of leadership, a focus on shaping the future, and a mission dedicated to alleviating pain and improving the quality of life for people around the world.

Zimmer Biomet Connected Health is building digital health tools to improve the care experience for patients, surgeons, and clinicians in musculoskeletal health. Our mission is to deliver digital tools that provide data-driven insights into movement health, support patients through the surgical journey, and empower surgeons with clinical decision support. Our team integrates health data, software, smart devices, and people into a platform for value-based healthcare. This is your chance to join a small but very talented team and have a meaningful impact on people’s movement health. We have a startup culture and deliver impact on large company scale.

We are looking for a motivated & energetic product development professional who is passionate about software and has experience with web and mobile app technologies. They will be responsible for managing functional requirements for existing products and helping envision new products for the musculoskeletal market. The ideal candidate thinks like a product manager but acts like an engineer; translating a product vision into detailed requirements that are clearly implementable by the software engineering team. They will focus on requirements engineering – developing user needs and driving systems engineering – developing system/software requirements.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining software requirements so that they fulfill the demands of a formal quality management system (QMS) and are traceable across the application lifecycle.
• Work across boundaries both geographic and functional to participate with and help knit together a large team of software & medical device professionals. The work team will include people from quality, regulatory, legal, compliance, product, engineering, operations, implementations, and others.
• Responsible for collaborating the software architecture and technical teams to define requirements for a cloud-based digital health platform with web and mobile user interface front end UIs and a data analytics backend.
• Initiate the product development process based on roadmaps, capability briefs, and UX designs as inputs. Must be able to decompose these into functional requirements that can be tracked through build, testing, and validation.
• Drive an FDA quality system development culture and support it across the product lifecycle, rolling up your sleeves to document where necessary and mentor where appropriate.
• Incorporate application concepts and user workflow concepts into designs, crafting business solutions leveraging best practices from these.
• The candidate will be responsible for evaluating the technical requirements when crafting the user journey through user stories and acceptance criteria. The candidate can clearly articulate the link between product decisions and business outcomes.

Expected Areas of Competence

• Experienced in software scalability, reliability, extensibility, and usability. Must be able to design functional software requirements that enables them and deliver a vision within an agile, fast-moving environment.
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands and viewpoints. Using these skills, the candidate will help create a balance between project scope, timeframe, and resources.
• Builds a culture of accountability and ownership to make decisions as close to the work as possible. Manage dependencies with while identifying, building, and managing strategic partnership with cross functional teams.
• Flexibility with short term priorities while keeping project scope and timeline in mind. Relying on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Knowledge of agile software development aligned with a quality management system; preferred.
• Attention to detail and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work both alone and in rapid work teams under periodic supervision.

Education/Experience Requirements

• A thorough understanding of web concepts and technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript frameworks, XML, RDBS and responsive design.
• Experience with at least one requirements management tool such as Atlassian Jira or CodeBeamer.
• 7+ years of experience in building software and creating user needs and architecture/software requirements preferably in the medical device industry.
• Skilled in Agile/SCRUM, SAFe methodologies and experience in leading complex projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Product Owner, Agile/SCRUM, or SAFe Certification or generalist training.
• Experience with designing web, mobile web, and mobile app solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in a computer science, engineering, or business.

Travel Requirements

• Up to 10%

Additional Information

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in The Power of Us, which means that we are stronger together. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered, and celebrated. As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. This is why we offer you a competitive rewards package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, wellness incentives, employee assistance programs as well as paid time off for vacation and holidays.

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Compensation Range:107,000 – 135,500