Carl Zeiss - Engineering Product Owner - Medical Devices

Role : Engineering Product Owner :

Purpose of this position :

The Engineering Product Owner Lifecycle owns requirement clarity, backlog readiness, and cross-functional execution for Refraction Product lifecycle management and sustaining-engineering topics in a regulated medical-device environment at ZEISS.

The role consolidates customer, service, quality, regulatory, product-management, UX, software, hardware, and systems-engineering inputs into traceable requirements, prioritized backlogs, and measurable lifecycle outcomes.

Primary duties and responsibilities :

- Own engineering coordination for lifecycle initiatives, installed-base enhancements, technical escalations, issue resolution, upgrades, and end-of-life actions.

- Translate field feedback, complaint trends, CAPA inputs, service data, customer needs, and product priorities into clear lifecycle scope, milestones, risks, and success criteria.

- Lead end-to-end requirement engineering, including elicitation, analysis, refinement, validation, signoff, and audit-ready documentation.

- Maintain feature-to-user-story-to-acceptance-criteria traceability and ensure alignment with product intent, risk controls, verification strategy, design-transfer impact, and QMS expectations.

- Collaborate with UX/UI, software, systems, hardware, architecture, test, and service teams to ensure requirements translate into feasible, user-centric, secure, and scalable solutions.

- Partner with quality and regulatory teams on investigations, CAPA actions, risk management, hazard analysis, defect management, validation needs, privacy/security considerations, and release constraints.

- Act as the central engineering interface between product management, business stakeholders, engineering teams, quality, regulatory, service, manufacturing, commercial, regional teams, suppliers, and external partners.

Technical / domain skills :

- Strong requirement engineering, documentation, backlog management, stakeholder alignment, and product-definition skills.

- Broad exposure to software delivery, systems engineering, hardware/software interfaces, product lifecycle management, and regulated product-development practices.

- Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum/SAFe, sprint planning, backlog grooming, traceability, verification evidence, defect management, dashboards, and cross-functional delivery governance.

Education and experience :

- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or a related STEM discipline.

- Typically 10 years of experience in software/product engineering, technical product development, lifecycle engineering, sustaining engineering, or regulated technology execution.

- Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience as a Product Owner, Engineering Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, or equivalent requirement/product ownership role.

Screening Questions :

What is your current location? The face-to-face interview will be conducted in Bangalore. Would you be available to attend the interview in person?