Senior IT Manager - I&O and AI (Product Owner)

About the role

The Enterprise AI Platform team develops and evolves enterprise-scale AI capabilities that deliver secure, scalable, production-ready solutions. It currently focuses on the Gestalt AI Platform, supporting AIOps initiatives while expanding AI platform services. This role is based at the Medtronic facility in Hyderabad, India, on a flex work arrangement with no travel required. The Product Owner defines product strategy, manages roadmap execution and drives delivery of platform capabilities, partnering with engineering, architecture, operations, infrastructure, quality, UX and business stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product backlog to maximize business value and platform outcomes
• Define product features, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Develop and maintain the product roadmap aligned with business priorities and release cycles
• Translate platform vision into sprint objectives and actionable work for engineering teams
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning and release readiness in Agile delivery frameworks
• Coordinate delivery across engineering pods and manage dependencies, risks and blockers
• Partner with Architecture, Engineering, QA, UX, Infrastructure and Operations teams
• Communicate roadmap progress, priorities, risks and delivery status to leadership and stakeholders
• Support release deployments and hypercare with platform operations teams

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years of experience as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager on enterprise software or platform products
• Experience delivering enterprise software platforms in a global environment
• Nice to have: experience influencing stakeholders and collaborating across global, cross-functional teams

Required skills

• Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies
• Cloud platforms, APIs, AI technologies or platform engineering solutions
• Nice to have: AI and LLM technologies, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, ServiceNow, SQL/NoSQL databases, observability tools such as SolarWinds or Nexthink

What we offer

• Competitive salary and a flexible benefits package
• Eligibility for the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP)