Sr. Product Manager, Future Systems Platforms

Intuitive•Sunnyvale, CA

4d•$149,900 - $253,700•Onsite

About The Position

You will become a member of the da Vinci® Multiport Global Product Management team helping to lead development and support multiple generations of system software platform solutions across their lifecycle. This is an individual contributor role and will report to a Group Product Manager. As an upstream strategic and software product management expert, you will work with cross-functional partners to guide successful product launches and provide strategic expertise throughout the product development and global launch phases. You will become a key development and design stage stakeholder for multiple projects and will be a global system portfolio expert helping to guide future portfolio strategy recommendations and budgeting.

Requirements

Demonstrated prior experience in essential job duties noted above
Minimum Bachelors degree
Minimum 4 years in a medical device role with 8 or more years cumulative professional experience

Nice To Haves

MBA
Product Management experience in Medical Device Industry
Professional engineering experience in highly regulated industry (example med device) preferred in software development
Applied AI/ML product experience
UI/UX experience

Responsibilities

Build a VOC engine spanning surgeons, OR staff, and admins; synthesizing into problem statements and user journeys.
Define and maintain user needs, scenarios, and priority jobs-to-be-done for system software and the user experience.
Convert user needs into software product requirements (functional, performance, safety, usability, cybersecurity, service, and interoperability requirements) with rationale and acceptance criteria.
Build trusted partnerships with software engineering, clinical, human factors, UX and industrial design, and regulatory teams—becoming the recognized authority on system software direction.
Drive human factors studies and incorporate findings into design iterations.
Develop deep understanding of surgical workflows, surgeon ergonomics, and OR environment constraints through direct observation and physician engagement.
Make disciplined trade-off decisions between features, timeline, cost, and regulatory complexity.
Develop final product definition considering customer needs, technical acumen, and business decisions (which may include I&A and other business units).
Ensure software subsystem requirements enable seamless integration with the system and broader platform architecture.
Establish clear prioritization frameworks and software development milestones that balance innovation ambition with regulatory and manufacturing realities.