Staff Product Manager – Compute Architecture

Intuitive•Sunnyvale, CA

23h

About The Position

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive . As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care , our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion —have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide. We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world. The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life. If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare , you’ll find your purpose here. Primary Function of Position You will become a member of the da Vinci® Multiport Global Product Management team helping to lead and support multiple generations of platform solutions across their lifecycle. This is an individual contributor role and will report to a Group Product Manager. As an upstream strategic and product management expert, you will work with cross-functional partners to guide successful product launches and provide strategic expertise throughout the product lifecycle. Responsibilities for this role will be heavily focused in sophisticated computational architecture roadmap planning based on careful analysis of conflicting needs across different product owners. 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 or health related device role with 12 or more years cumulative professional experience

Nice To Haves

MBA
Extensive prior experience in computational architecture road-mapping, AI, and software development across many stakeholders
Product Management experience in Medical Device Industry
Professional engineering experience in highly regulated industry (example med device) preferred in software or hardware development

Responsibilities

Proactively solicit and aggregate the dV5 platform computational needs to support future platform roadmap.
Create the aligned compute system architecture roadmap via detailed benefit and feasibility trade-off process, then ensure aligned multiport BU proposal to Exec leadership by end of 2026.
Support appropriate budget allocation in budget planning cycle for 2027
Document and map a comprehensive view of demands for compute along with tradeoffs and understand key strategic points of view from each major Compute stakeholder
Manage an iterative process with stakeholder teams to prioritize product development proposals that align with short and long term dV5 global strategy and other prioritized product roadmaps/strategies
Understand key software needs and objectives from teams that only develop software, with limited understanding of platform integration requirements, and serve as a key integrator with the Multiport hardware engineering team managing integration of physical hardware into the dV5 architecture
Liaison with AI & Machine learning product teams within Multiport, Strategy, and Digital business units.
Conduct diligence for each product proposal and support viability creation and lead evidence generation if more data needed.
Present to Multiport leadership at qtrly cadence.
Product Manager for AI & Machine learning products sourced from Multiport through Evaluation & Development stages (progressing / stopping proposals)
Lead Product Manager on human/machine interface workstream in 2026 and subsequent development support