Sr Product Manager - Upstream Software, ION

Job description

Essential Job Duties

Product Strategy and Roadmap Development

• Develop next generation software product roadmap across multiple product franchises in the Ion business units
• Develop a deep knowledge of relevant clinical spaces, including monitoring and consuming clinical literature, attending medical society meetings and engaging with physician key opinion leaders

Market Landscape and Voice of Customer

• Understand competitive, emerging, and complementary technology, and its impact on Intuitive’s endoluminal product lines
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative market research. Execute customer interviews (patients, HCPs & their care team, providers and payers) and observations to develop insights and inform the product roadmap Marketing Claims:
• Develop customer segmentation and marketing claims strategy for next generation product franchises
• Drive cross-functional alignment on pre and post-launch product roadmap and data collection in pre-clinical and clinical settings

Product Feature Development and Prioritization

• Partner with product franchise leads to develop and prioritize software product investigations, features, and product requirements for next generation software
• Partner with UX and Clinical to prototype and assess prototype product solutions.
• Evaluate critical program requirements and potential product impact

End-to-End Ownership of Software Features

• Own and scope the end-to-end software experience for users across next generation product franchises and global geographies to ensure a unified, consistent, and streamlined user experience Drive desirability, feasibility, and viability assessments of next generation software product features to prioritize next generation product portfolio

Business Analysis

• Collect, organize, and leverage datasets to build business cases and drive business decisions for next generation software product lines
• Identify high-leverage software innovations by customer desirability, business viability, and longer-term NPV methodologies

New Technologies and Global Launches

• Partner with engineering and business development teams to assess new technologies, potential partnerships, and prioritize the new business development software pipeline
• Collaborate with regional teams to ensure that product features and NextGen portfolio align with user needs across geographies

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Ability to manage cross-functional projects, stakeholders, and teams; effectively resolves issues that impact multiple teams and departments, involving complex strategies and priorities.
• Proven track record of leading strategic initiatives from concept through to completion.
• Able to prioritize and smoothly manage multiple tasks, product lines, and product features
• Relationship builder with proven ability to work across disparate parts of an organization to deliver results.
• Can operate and drive results and set priorities with limited supervision.
• Influences critical project trade-offs with clear communication, customer insight, and data
• Self-starter with ability to take leadership in a fast-paced environment, with agility to pivot focus to meet evolving customer needs and shifting market dynamics.
• Effectively communicates impact of critical requirements on commercial success and across organizational stakeholders Excellent communication and presentation skills, including experience presenting to senior management and customers.
• Demonstrated interest in healthcare, hospital operations, and finance
• Ability to work in surgical labs and hospital patient care areas is required
• Ability to travel up to 30% Required Education and Training
• A Bachelors (BS/BSE) in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field strongly preferred
• 5 or more years of professional experience with at least 2 years of experience in medical device product management, program management, project management, product marketing, or a similar discipline
• Product launch experience
• Relevant experience in medical devices and/or engineering/technical organizations

Working Conditions

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Masters degree in life science, engineering, or business discipline preferred
• Experience leading development of multiple software product lines as the single-point-of- contact in a regulated environment
• Experience in one or more of the following areas preferred: medical software, capital equipment, medical devices, digital health, robotics, regulated product development