Sr. Product Manager - Novel Soft Tissue Applications
About The Position
As a Product Manager within Intuitive’s Future Forward team, the advanced concepts and new opportunity growth organization, this role defines and champions new product concepts from early exploration through initial market introduction. The Product Manager sets direction in areas where the problem, solution, and path to market are not yet defined, helping teams reduce uncertainty about product desirability, viability, and feasibility. The role gathers data and develops insights to shape market and product requirements, owns product-development business cases, and aligns cross-functional stakeholders on a path to market. It calls for comfort with ambiguity, strong collaboration, and the ability to work independently and systematically over extended time horizons. The role develops knowledge of new clinical spaces and their diagnosis and treatment, identifies market and product requirements, conducts research and user observation, evaluates product concepts, and develops roadmaps and business cases. It collaborates with engineering, clinical, manufacturing, regulatory, market access, and commercial partners to establish evidence, reimbursement, regulatory, and go-to-market strategies. The Product Manager also monitors competitive and adjacent technologies and helps evaluate and prioritize new technologies and business-development opportunities.
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, bridging communication among engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customers.
- Ability to deliver compelling presentations to internal and external audiences, including vice president-level leaders.
- Self-directed approach and awareness to seek advice proactively when needed.
- Quantitative mindset and demonstrated ability to investigate open-ended problems and address them cross-functionally.
- Humble, creative, and able to work amid competing priorities while communicating clearly, concisely, and professionally.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple competing deadlines and tasks smoothly.
- Ability to travel globally up to 25%.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or master’s degree.
- Experience with surgical robotics.
Responsibilities
- Build 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-state fundamentals, outcomes of available solutions, target user personas, unmet needs, and high-level requirements.
- Develop product requirements and iterate on them 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 stakeholders across design engineering, clinical development engineering, manufacturing, and other functions 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 requirements.
- 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 through treatment using currently available modalities, and identify opportunities to influence them.
- Plan initial go-to-market strategies, including target customer, pricing, positioning and messaging, sales channel, and education; coordinate a clear handoff with commercial and market-development partners.
- Maintain an understanding of relevant competitive and adjacent technologies and their implications for Intuitive’s products.
- Work with engineering and business development teams to evaluate new technologies and prioritize the business-development pipeline.
Benefits
- Market-competitive compensation package that includes base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
