Staff Product Manager - Ion Upstream Software (Finance)
Company Description
At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.
Job Description
Primary Function of Position
Product Managers play a critical role in Ion's success by empowering teams across technical and commercial functions to bring life-changing tools to our customers and patients. The Staff Software Product Manager will be responsible for the development of the next-generation software portfolio of Ion, a novel robotic technology for lung access. This role will own the next generation software product roadmap across multiple product franchises, scoping the development of new software features, and owning the end-to-end system-level software experience.
The ideal candidate for this role must have excellent communication, organization, and technical skills. The ability to evangelize product narratives to key stakeholders, while maintaining a high attention to detail, and serving as the central point-of-contact for next generation software product development workstreams is key.
Expertise in product management methodology, project management methodology, software development, early stage product conceptualization, and product roadmap development within healthcare/medical devices is a plus. This role will report to the Group Product Manager of software.
Essential Job Duties
Product Strategy and Roadmap Development
- Develop next generation software product roadmap across multiple product franchises in the Ion business unit
- Develop a deep knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and future 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. Direct 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 business 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
- Ability to 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 departmental and cross-functional projects, stakeholders, and teams; effectively resolves issues that impact multiple teams and departments, involving complex strategies and high-level 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.
- Works on significant and unique issues where investigation of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
- Exercises autonomous judgment; can operate and drive results and set priorities with limited supervision.
- 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.
- Consistently communicates effectively across varying organizational levels and takes the lead in communicating with and influencing senior collaborators.
- Excellent executive 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
- Minimum of a Bachelor's (BS/BSE) in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field strongly preferred
- 12+ years of experience in product management with a Bachelor's Degree, 8+ years of experience in product management with a Master's degree, or 5+ years of experience in product management with PhD
- At least 5 years of experience in medical devices or a similar field
- 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 or Doctorate degree in life science, engineering, or business discipline preferred
- Experience leading a portfolio of 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
Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.
Mandatory Notices
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.
Base Salary Range Region 1: $233,600 USD - $350,400 USD
Base Salary Range Region 2: $198,600 USD - $297,800 USD
Shift: Day
Workplace Type: Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.
