Sr. Product Manager, Portfolio Management
About The Position
The Senior Product Manager of Portfolio Management supports the global expansion of the da Vinci portfolio and reports to the Director of Product Management. The role partners with Regional Portfolio Management, Commercial Marketing, Multiport franchise Product Managers, Product Lifecycle Operations, and the Program Office to align and rationalize the portfolio across regions, position products for customer segments, and maximize procedure growth. The team represents both business needs and the needs of surgeons and operating-room team members. The position uses data, analytics, and modeling to assess portfolio options and support regional strategic planning. It aligns regional portfolio requests with da Vinci Business Unit strategies, helps prioritize launch-readiness activities, and ensures portfolio decisions, goals, success measures, and launch timelines are communicated and executed. The role also develops processes to improve portfolio management and monitors competitive, emerging, and complementary technologies that may affect product positioning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Strong passion for users’ product experience and how products are positioned for target segments.
- Experience developing and maintaining processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills across multiple regions.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority and bridge communication among Commercial Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Portfolio Lifecycle Management, Program Management, and executive leadership.
- Ability to work in surgical labs and operating rooms.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience, including 3–5 years in Medical Device Product Management.
- Experience defining and managing market and portfolio positioning for medical devices.
- Extensive experience segmenting customers and positioning products for targeted customers.
Nice To Haves
- Strong knowledge of the minimally invasive robotic surgery market.
- Graduate business degree or certificates.
- Experience with minimally invasive surgical products, including capital equipment, software launches, AI prompts, and collaboration with teams outside the U.S.
Responsibilities
- Use data-driven analysis to manage tradeoff discussions with regional product management, Product Lifecycle Operations, and the Program Office, and assess portfolio options for regional success.
- Support regional strategic planning with analytics and modeling to align the product portfolio to customer segments.
- Communicate portfolio and investment decisions clearly to internal and external stakeholders, particularly following decisions to accelerate new-technology launches.
- Align regional commercial portfolio requests with da Vinci Business Unit strategies and execute the overall portfolio strategy, including launch acceleration, growth targets, portfolio goals, and success measures.
- Develop and track team goals and objectives aligned with business units and portfolio lifecycle timelines, and hold the team accountable for results.
- Build and improve portfolio-management processes with Regional Commercial Marketing and Product Managers to develop insights that inform launch timelines.
- Coordinate across functions to ensure launch timelines are broadly understood and met in each regional market.
- Monitor competitive, emerging, and complementary technologies and assess their potential impact on product positioning.
- Partner with Regional Portfolio Management and Commercial Marketing to position the da Vinci portfolio for existing and new segments and localize positioning for regional markets.
- Support Product Operations teams in prioritizing launch-readiness activities.
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
