Associate Product Manager

Abbott • Madison, WI

13d • $50,700 - $101,300 • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Product Manager works at Abbott’s Cancer Diagnostics Division in Madison, Wisconsin, partnering with product and business team members to define solutions aligned with customer needs and business objectives. The role supports product teams on low-complexity projects and builds hands-on experience through participation in design reviews and walkthroughs. The Associate Product Manager also helps define user stories and user acceptance criteria in collaboration with peers and users.

Responsibilities include gathering business needs and requirements, helping translate those needs into functional and non-functional requirements with senior-team support, and participating in discovery, design, and solution-delivery activities. The role supports requirements analysis and documentation, user acceptance testing and training, cross-functional project communication, and process improvement. It also requires reliable attendance, adherence to Abbott’s Quality Management System, and conduct consistent with the company’s mission and values.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Marketing, Business, Finance, or a field related to the essential duties; alternatively, a high school diploma or GED and four years of relevant experience may substitute for the bachelor’s degree.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to operate in a cross-cultural, complex matrixed environment and build consensus across functions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on Agile development teams.
• Experience in life science, healthcare, bioinformatics, wellness, or digital health.
• Some knowledge of digital analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop ongoing relationships with business partners.
• Collect high-level requirements and capture business needs through dialogue with business partners for low-complexity requirements within part of a specific product area.
• With support from a senior team member, translate business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements using a structured process for gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing change.
• Learn to conduct experience and technical discovery with support from business partners, experience design, research, and technical teams.
• Refer to project requirements according to the requirements management plan.
• Participate in design reviews and walkthroughs to communicate requirements and validate proposed solutions.
• Conduct preliminary reviews of product design documentation to ensure requirements are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Assist in generating use cases and user stories to ensure functional requirements are captured.
• Draft and perform activities, with oversight, including user story writing and grooming, requirements analysis, and functional specification writing.
• Mine data to inform system process-flow decisions and document tactical requirements.
• Provide proactive and regular communication about cross-functional project status, issues, risks, and problems.
• Support user acceptance testing and user training.
• Proactively recommend process improvements.
• Uphold Abbott’s mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with company Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Act with an inclusion mindset and model inclusive behaviors.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Eligible employees may qualify for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, providing an affordable and convenient path to a bachelor’s degree.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level