Associate Product Manager, Alignment & Surgical Planning

Alphatec Spine•Carlsbad, CA

15h•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for supporting the development, commercialization, and lifecycle management of EOS Insight and related data-driven capabilities. This role supports all aspects of product management, including requirements definition, surgeon customer feedback, product messaging, product launch, and customer engagement, to ensure existing and new products meet ATEC goals and market expectations. This position will help support the clinical experience within EOS Insight, including alignment assessment, 3D modeling, surgical planning, and integration with intraoperative solutions such as patient-specific rod bending and other enabling technologies. The role requires close collaboration with Product Development, Clinical, Regulatory, Sales, and other cross-functional teams, as well as frequent engagement with surgeon customers to understand new product requirements, support existing products, and identify opportunities for continued innovation. This position is part of the InformatiX team, which is responsible for information-based technology systems used as adjunctive technologies in spine surgery.

Requirements

Strong ability to translate customer needs into product requirements
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineering, marketing, sales, clinical, regulatory, quality, and research.
Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to inform decisions
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Superior interpersonal skills.
Experience collaborating with software development teams.
Ability to organize and prioritize workflow and to meet established timeframes.
Ability to multi-task within a cross-functional team
Strong attention to details.
Ability to represent the company at a variety of business functions or situations in a professional and competent manner.
Ability to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced, team environment.
Ability to prepare sales forecasts.
Ability to work under pressure.

Nice To Haves

Experience in spine, orthopedics, medical imaging, surgical planning, navigation, robotics, digital surgery, or AI-enabled healthcare software.
Experience working with web or mobile software platforms.
Familiarity with software as a medical device, regulated product development, design controls, usability engineering, or medical device quality systems.
Experience developing product requirements, user stories, launch plans, sales collateral, training materials, or product positioning.

Responsibilities

Manage assigned portions of the EOS Insight portfolio from concept and launch through lifecycle management, product updates, and obsolescence planning.
Assist in defining product requirements, roadmap priorities, and feature sequencing for EOS Insight and related data-driven capabilities.
Translate business objectives, surgeon insights, clinical workflow needs, data requirements, and technical constraints into clear product requirements and user stories.
Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, UX/UI, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, and other cross-functional teams to define, prioritize, and deliver product requirements.
Gather and synthesize feedback from surgeons, sales teams, account managers, market development teams, and internal stakeholders to inform product updates.
Assist in defining and integrating data-driven capabilities where AI-powered insights, analytics, predictive models, or decision-support tools are incorporated into the user experience.
Help ensure AI-enabled features are clinically meaningful, explainable, usable, and aligned with surgeon decision-making workflows.
Collaborate with EOS Clinical Account Managers and Regional Sales Managers to drive EOS sales, utilization, and customer engagement.
Assist in developing sales collateral, customer-facing materials, training content, case studies, product demos, and educational resources.
Participate in product launches, sales training, customer onboarding initiatives, trade shows, seminars, conferences, and surgeon education events.
Help define and monitor product success metrics, including adoption, utilization, customer satisfaction, workflow efficiency, data quality, and commercial performance.
Develop professional and technical knowledge by attending sales training; reviewing publications; establishing personal networks; participating in tradeshows and conferences.
Able to travel between 15-40%.
Other duties as assigned.