Program Director - Technical Product Management

Dexcom • San Diego, CA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Company Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health. We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Requirements

• Demonstrated successful leadership of complex multi-year flagship programs that deliver new technologies from feasibility, through development, V&V, design transfer, regulatory filings and product launches, with strong technical leadership, cross-functional leadership, and financial accountability.
• Technical expertise across at least one of the following engineering disciplines: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electrochemistry, bio-sensing, firmware engineering, algorithm engineering, and/or reliability in medical device product development or adjacent disciplines.
• Experience managing stakeholders inclusive of all technical and leadership levels: working effectively to drive critical program decisions and resolve competing stakeholder interests.
• Experience working in the Medical Device industry as well as knowledge of the industry practices, techniques, and standards including a proven ability to both understand and work effectively within a Quality System that is compliant with FDA regulations related to Design Control.
• Experience managing both direct and indirect reports including hiring, performance management, developing talent, and driving cultural change.
• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 15+ years related experience or a Master’s degree and 10+ years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 7+ years of experience.

Nice To Haves

• Particularly helpful is experience developing and filing medical devices through MDR and 510(K) regulatory submissions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Core Team in developing and design transferring a major new hardware platform its initial development program and its future development projects after launch.
• Lead product development activities that are complex and multi-disciplinary activities involving mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electrochemistry, sensor development, firmware engineering, algorithm development, and their integration together and with software (mobile application, web-based applications, cloud data).
• Deliver next generation biosensing platforms through feasibility, development, integration, verification, validation, commercial readiness, and work with Product Core Teams on ensuring successful product launches.
• Define the program scope, gain cross-functional alignment, and lead activities across Commercial, Operations, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Clinical, Regulatory, Finance, Legal, and R&D teams delivering business-critical programs.
• Establish the program vision, direction, and structure to the cross-functional and cross-disciplinary core teams. This includes controlling scope, aligning product roadmaps, and driving their cross functional delivery.
• Regularly communicate strategy, recommendations, external platform impacts, and program updates to functional and executive leadership, driving management decisions when needed.
• Create and maintain a culture of accountability and collaboration within your Core Teams by ensuring mutual accountability, removing organizational barriers to success, ensuring and facilitating excellent communication, and resolving conflict promptly.
• Develop and mentor core team members and serve as an advisor regarding planning, milestones, tasking, risk burn-down, and conflict resolution.
• Aid in evaluating and providing candid feedback directly to these core team members and their managers, including for their mid-year and annual performance reviews.
• May manage one or more technical program managers ensuring functional excellence within our team.

Benefits

• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

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