R&D Software Product Owner

About the position

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you'll help solve some of the world's toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

Responsibilities

• Translate the customer value propositions and requirements into meaningful, industry-leading software (sub)products, that delight our customers.
• Define the product roadmap and own backlog for software team and deployment of new innovations and drive successful new product introductions.
• Collect feedback on a regular basis and use this information to improve the products.
• Make the product backlog visible and open. Clearly express product backlog items, ensuring the product team understands the items to the level needed.
• Drive customer satisfaction by optimizing product performance, improving reliability and stability, continuously balancing the introduction of new features.
• Support product development budgeting, process improvement and quality assurance.
• Collaborate with international and multidisciplinary teams of developers and engineers to ensure effective research and development of product features.
• Actively participate and support agile development core team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related field.
• 3+ years in product owner or project management role
• Experience with Agile project management and Scrum is an advantage. Experience with SAFe is nice to have.
• Knowledge issue tracking system such as Jira or Jama.
• Ability to lead teams in a multisite and multidisciplinary environment.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and international

Benefits

• 401k retirement plan with company match
• Health, dental, and vision
• Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) performance based bonus
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)