Scrum Product Owner (m/f/d) – Full/Part time in Vienna, Austria

Job Description Summary

As the product owner you will define scope and backlog items (epics/features/user stories) that guide our agile software development teams. By being part of a global medical device company, you will act as the key liaison between stakeholders and the development team, ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of quality and compliance. You will work in cross-functional, international, and highly motivated scrum teams to turn our visions into reality.

Job Description

Scrum Product Owner

“At the end of everything we do is a patient. At the beginning is you!”

With thousands of medications making their way through a hospital and to patients every day, the medication management process is complex, and medication errors and inefficiencies are unfortunately inevitable.

BD is committed to breaking the harmful cycle of medication errors and simplifying medication management to bring safety and practice together in measurable ways. We offer infusion and IV therapy systems, solutions and devices including infusion pumps, server software, interoperability with hospital information systems, and vascular access devices and accessories. From the hospital pharmacy to the patient bedside, they help protect every infusion for each patient at all times. BD offers a comprehensive suite of infusion software solutions to improve patient safety, reduce costs and optimize infusion management.

About the role

• Work with internal stakeholders, such as business, marketing and clinical representatives, to analyze needs and align product roadmaps and backlogs to strategic goals

• Develop appropriately detailed product backlog items and specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the development team

• Work with the developers and testers in and around Vienna on a daily basis

• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring that the team is focused on delivering high-quality increments

• Collaborate internationally with our R&D development center in Ireland, and with globally-distributed stakeholders

Must-haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences or a related field, or equivalent work experience

• Professional experience as a scrum product owner, requirements engineer, software system engineer or similar role, working within an agile framework

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to develop relationships with team members and stakeholders (technical and non-technical)

• A proven capacity for interdisciplinary collaboration, and the ability to quickly gain an understanding of new, challenging domains

• Fluent in English, German is a plus

• Analytical skills, attention to details

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in healthcare, ideally medical device software and familiarity with regulatory standards in the medical device industry

• Professional Scrum Product Owner certification

• Experience working across multiple time zones

• Bonus skills: proficiency in Mandarin and/or experience collaborating with Chinese corporations to facilitate effective communication with one of our partners

• Domain Driven Design

Our offer

We offer you to contribute in a highly motivated global environment, working to develop products that have a positive, real-world impact. A collaborative working climate in an innovative environment where your input counts. A safe workplace with long term perspectives.

We endeavor for a long-term collaboration – hence corporate career planning throughout diverse phases of life conveys a high importance and value for us.  

The minimum annual gross salary for this position is € 44.450,00 (annual full-time basis, based on ST1/Einstiegsstufe 2025 IT KV). Based on individual skills and experience, we offer appropriate additional payment.

Our modern office is located in the Millennium Tower with excellent traffic connections. BD offers flexible working time, home office, a stock ownership program and numerous social benefits (e.g. free drinks, massage and Sodexo-childcare vouchers). You will be part of a committed team; your position will include a varying area of duties as well as personal development opportunities.

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Primary Work Location

AUT Vienna – Handelskai

Additional Locations

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Becton, Dickinson and Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.