Director Product & Design
About The Position
The Director Product & Design is responsible for defining and driving the global product portfolio strategy, digital solutions roadmap, and innovation agenda across Abbott’s Heart Failure division. The role influences enterprise investment decisions, growth strategies, and long-term global business performance by integrating customer needs, market opportunities, clinical insights, regulatory and quality requirements, business objectives, and emerging technologies. The position leads global Product Management and Design organizations that translate unmet needs into differentiated products and solutions to accelerate growth, improve patient outcomes, and strengthen competitive advantage across Heart Failure markets worldwide. The Director owns portfolio strategy and product management across the full lifecycle, from concept through commercialization, launch, market expansion, and ongoing portfolio optimization. The role also guides product design, human factors, usability, evidence generation, product development governance, and cross-functional alignment, while communicating portfolio opportunities, investment recommendations, business risks, and growth plans to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, Healthcare, or a related field.
- 10–12+ years of progressive experience in Product Management, Innovation, Marketing, Strategy, R&D, or related healthcare leadership roles.
- 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading global, matrixed, or multi-level teams.
- Demonstrated success developing and executing global product portfolio strategies in a complex healthcare or medical device environment.
- Experience shaping product strategy across the full lifecycle, including upstream innovation, development, commercialization, sustaining, and portfolio optimization in a regulated environment.
- Experience integrating customer and user insights into portfolio priorities, product design decisions, and market adoption strategies.
- Proven experience influencing executive leadership and enterprise investment decisions.
- Experience leading organizations through significant growth, transformation, or innovation initiatives with measurable business impact.
- Demonstrated success leading global, cross-functional organizations in a highly matrixed environment.
- Strong financial, strategic planning, portfolio analytics, portfolio investment management, and business planning capabilities.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional product development programs from concept through commercialization in a regulated environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with product design, human factors/usability, digital health, connected care, or complex medical device product ecosystems.
- MBA or advanced degree.
- Experience in cardiovascular, heart failure, medical device, digital health, or related healthcare sectors.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the global Heart Failure product portfolio strategy, long-range planning, and roadmaps for pipeline products, digital solutions, services, and innovation initiatives.
- Establish product vision, strategic direction, and value propositions based on customer, clinical, market, and business insights.
- Set product design, human factors, usability, and product experience strategy, translating user insights into product requirements, design decisions, validation, and lifecycle improvements.
- Shape the innovation agenda by identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing emerging technologies, product opportunities, partnerships, and initiatives.
- Lead business cases, market assessments, and investment strategies for portfolio prioritization, lifecycle management, resource allocation, and growth decisions.
- Establish the strategic product development agenda with R&D leadership and align product requirements, priorities, and investments with customer needs and business objectives.
- Lead product development governance, including stage-gate reviews and design control decision-making.
- Own product management strategy across the product lifecycle, from concept through commercialization, launch readiness, market expansion, and portfolio optimization.
- Align with Clinical Affairs, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Quality leadership on evidence-generation, regulatory, and quality strategies.
- Define the evidence-generation framework and influence clinical study priorities to support regulatory approvals, reimbursement, physician adoption, and market leadership.
- Align Marketing, Commercial, Market Access, and Market Insights organizations on commercialization, customer adoption, and global portfolio performance.
- Communicate portfolio opportunities, investment recommendations, business risks, and growth plans to senior leadership.
- Influence executive decisions on portfolio priorities, innovation investments, growth strategies, market expansion, and long-range business planning.
- Establish governance processes, operating mechanisms, and performance metrics for portfolio management, prioritization, and execution across global Heart Failure product lines.
- Lead and develop a global Product Management and Design organization, building capabilities, succession pipelines, and leadership talent while fostering customer-centricity, innovation, accountability, collaboration, and execution excellence.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
