Digital Dentistry Leader

SOLVENTUM•Remote - Minnesota, MN

10d•$187,600 - $257,950•Remote

About The Position

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you. The Digital Dentistry Leader is responsible for defining and executing Solventum Dental Solutions’ digital strategy across businesses. This role leads the development of the digital roadmap by ensuring alignment with clinician needs, treatment workflows, customer insights, market opportunities, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies. This role manages a portfolio that currently includes Aligners, Retainers, DBT, and Restorative Design, while identifying and advancing future digital capabilities that strengthen Solventum’s position as a differentiated leader in digital dentistry. As a(n) Digital Dental Leader you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience in digital product management, platform strategy, portfolio management, digital health, MedTech or healthcare technology.
Experience translating customer or clinical needs into digital product requirements and solutions.
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Nice To Haves

Experience in Dental, Orthodontics, Digital Dentistry, Dental
Strong understanding of dental and/or orthodontic clinical workflows.
Demonstrated people leadership experience; demonstrated experience leading and developing Product Managers and enabling clear decision-making across multiple product areas.
Experience building technology partnerships and connected ecosystems.
Experience managing a portfolio across multiple customer segments or markets.
Experience with modern product operating models, Lean portfolio practices, Scrum, Kanban, or flow-based delivery approaches.
Strong strategic and commercial/business acumen.
Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive alignment and outcomes across a complex matrix organization.
Strong understanding of digital platforms, software and emerging technologies.
Ability to operate effectively in a global, complex and rapidly changing environment.
Proven ability to make complex investment, prioritization and trade-off decisions.

Responsibilities

Lead the global Digital Dentistry strategy and vision across Dental Solutions Business , aligned with portfolio strategy.
Define and communicate measurable product-family outcomes, product boundaries, and strategic guardrails that enable Product Managers to lead their product areas.
Anticipate how technology, clinical workflows, competitive offerings, and customer expectations are evolving and translate those trends into strategic opportunities.
Evaluate opportunities to build, buy, partner or integrate new capabilities.
Own the Clarity Portal strategy and multi-year roadmap, ensuring the platform evolves into a differentiated digital ecosystem
Ensure digital strategic priorities are transformed into an executable and robust roadmap by translating clinician needs and treatment workflows into clear business and product requirements.
Lead roadmap and feature prioritization decisions - fund, continue, expand, pause, pivot or stop - based on customer and business outcomes.
Lead efforts to establish quantitative business outcomes to roadmap and features.
Partner with R&D and portfolio leaders to align priorities with available capacity, dependencies, technical sustainability, quality, and delivery risk.
Shape portfolio and roadmap priorities by leveraging continuous competitive benchmarking and market intelligence and trade-offs across the digital dentistry industry.
Review post-launch outcomes and adjust portfolio priorities or recommend investment changes based on evidence, adoption and business impact.
Drive integrated alignment in shared outcomes and priorities across Product Management, Product Owners, Architecture, Marketing, R&D, Scientific Education, Quality, Regulatory and Regional teams.
Establish effective operating rhythms that accelerate evidence-based decisions, surface dependencies and risks, and maintain transparency across the product family
Lead regular cross-functional and release readiness reviews to ensure roadmap execution, release readiness and business readiness remain aligned.
Ensure timely and transparent communication of roadmap and release decisions
Champion Agile methodology for digital product development and foster deep collaboration with R&D teams to build a high performing team culture.
Identify, develop and own strategic partnerships that can accelerate, expand the digital dentistry ecosystem and accelerate product development
Engage with clinicians, KOLs, customers and external technology experts to identify emerging opportunities and validate product direction.
Lead, coach and develop Product Managers, providing strategic outcome-based direction and empowering them to lead execution and day-to-day product decisions.
Build Product Management capability in customer discovery, hypothesis-driven development, roadmap communication, evidence-based prioritization, and post-launch learning.
Promote an agile mindset centered on ownership, customer value, iterative learning, transparent trade-offs, cross-functional collaboration, and fast, data-driven execution.
Develop talent capable of connecting business strategy, clinical needs and digital technology.
Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.