Sr Product Manager - Upstream Software, ION

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

- 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%

- 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

- Ability to travel domestically and internationally

- 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

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