Product Principal Owner

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered, and recognized.

Zimmer Biomet Named Among the 100 Best Places to Work in IT in 2018 by Computerworld Magazine

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 a particular interest in AI technologies. They will be responsible for managing functional requirements for existing products and helping envision new products for the musculoskeletal market. The ideal candidate is passionate about delivering solutions for real-world, large-scale problems using Artificial Intelligence techniques including deep learning, machine learning, and reinforcement learning.

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.

• Develop, Drive and support a pipeline of AI solutions that deliver against the strategic business priorities


• Maintain an exceptional level of customer focus centered on integrity and transparency.


• Execute core responsibilities with minimal management direction and know when to communicate status or escalate issues to leadership, teammates or stakeholders.


• Work with the Product Manager to set product vision and road-maps, goal setting, story writing, prioritizing, project execution, and product roll-out strategy


• Drive and support all phases of the product management lifecycle: discovery, design, delivery, and post launch management


• Partner with cross-functional teams of designers, technologists, business stakeholders, and other stakeholders


• Own and drive agile ceremonies such as backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demos, testing and releases

• Beyond experience, the right personal integrity, style and attitude are critical to success in this role


• Dedicated, enthusiastic, driven and performance-oriented; possesses a strong work ethic


• Collaborative, influential and highly self-aware


• Savvy executor who understands how to operate within constraints, and devise solutions that are desirable, usable, feasible, and viable


• Deep understanding of digital product management and development, ideally with experience in product or related roles with focus on AI products. Prior experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) is also an advantage.


• 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.


• Must have demonstrable 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.


• Attention to detail and excellent oral and written communication skills.


• Flexibility with short term priorities while keeping project scope and timeline in mind. Relying on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.


• Builds a culture of accountability and ownership to make decisions as close to the work as possible.


• Manage dependencies while identifying, building, and managing strategic partnership with cross functional teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering or sciences. or business


• Product Owner, Agile/SCRUM, or SAFe Certification or generalist training.


• 2+ years of Artificial Intelligence Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience in complex technologies in software and/or healthcare solutions.


• 8+ years of experience in building software in collaboration with development teams 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 aligned with a quality management system; preferred.


• Experience with at least one requirements management tool such as Atlassian Jira or Code Beamer.

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability

Comp Range $134,800 – 148,000.
The compensation for this position may vary depending on the specific work location.