Sr. Product Manager - Advanced Clinical Applications
About The Position
As a Product Manager within Intuitive’s Future Forward organization, the role defines and champions new product concepts from early exploration through initial market introduction. It focuses on systematically assessing the desirability, viability, and feasibility of innovative products addressing unmet patient needs. The role gathers data and develops insights to establish and refine market and product requirements, owns business cases for product development programs, and aligns cross-functional stakeholders on the path to market. It requires comfort with ambiguity, strong collaboration, and the ability to work independently and systematically over extended time horizons. The role contributes to the future product direction of Intuitive by developing an understanding of new clinical spaces, validating user needs and product concepts, and building roadmaps and go-to-market plans. It works closely with engineering, clinical, regulatory, market access, commercial, and business development partners. The position is fully onsite and may require up to 25% global travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- At least 10 years of professional experience in product management, marketing, or engineering for surgical or interventional medical devices.
- Demonstrated interest in healthcare, hospital operations, and medical devices.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience defining and managing market and product requirements for medical devices.
- Experience developing strong key opinion leader partnerships to inform market and product requirements.
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority, including bridging communication between engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customers.
- Ability to deliver compelling presentations to internal and external audiences, including vice president-level leaders.
- Self-directed, with awareness to proactively seek advice when needed.
- Quantitative mindset and ability to investigate open-ended problems and address them cross-functionally.
- Humble nature and ability to work creatively amid competing priorities and communicate clearly, concisely, and professionally.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple competing deadlines and tasks.
- Ability to travel globally up to 25%.
Nice To Haves
- An MBA or master’s degree is strongly preferred.
- Experience with surgical robotics is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of diagnosis and treatment in new clinical spaces by monitoring clinical literature, attending medical society meetings, and engaging physician key opinion leaders.
- Discover and develop market requirements, including disease fundamentals, outcomes of available solutions, target user personas, unmet needs, and high-level requirements.
- Discover and develop product requirements in collaboration with Clinical Development Engineering and Design Engineering.
- Plan and conduct qualitative and quantitative market research and direct user observation to validate unmet needs, product requirements, and business cases.
- Evaluate product concepts, negotiate tradeoffs, and align cross-functional stakeholders while considering customer and business needs.
- Develop clinical-space product roadmaps, including target procedures, user segments, and required product capabilities.
- Develop and iterate product business cases, including TAM/SAM, forecasted penetration, pricing, cost and margin estimates, and program investment needs.
- Partner with Clinical Affairs and Market Access on clinical evidence and reimbursement strategies to support commercial adoption.
- Partner with Regulatory to determine the optimal path to market.
- Map patient pathways in new clinical areas from diagnosis to treatment using currently available modalities and identify opportunities to influence them.
- Plan initial go-to-market strategy, including target customers, pricing, positioning and messaging, sales channel, and education plan; collaborate with commercial and market development partners on handoff.
- Maintain an understanding of relevant competitive and adjacent technologies and their implications for Intuitive products.
- Work with engineering and business development teams to evaluate new technologies and prioritize the business development pipeline.
- Travel globally up to 25%.
Benefits
- Market-competitive compensation package including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
