Staff Product Manager, Digital, EMEIA

Intuitive • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

As a regional product manager in Digital, you will be a key leader in identifying needs and driving impactful changes that benefit our OUS customers in the development of our Digital Ecosystem. You will work across a broad set of partners including country commercial teams, regional marketing, local customers, and core product development BUs in order to develop well understood needs and whole product solutions. You will work with cross-functional partners to identify needs; define and guide products through the development process; shape and guide the roadmap; and work with downstream teams for commercialization, evidence, and messaging. Your efforts will not just be limited to a single project/product (e.g., a digital feature) but also include broader ownership to address regional, business procedure, compliance, or market needs. This is an individual contributor role which will be part of the OUS Expansion digital product management team. However, you will be a singular leader in your region building relationships with key partners and assessing opportunities to ensure the future successfully impact of digital products in region.

Requirements

• Empathy, understanding, and appreciation for different country, market, and business dynamics
• Humble, mindful of other people’s input, and able to communicate in a clear, concise, and professional manner.
• Self-directed with awareness to proactively seek advice and develop professional skills.
• Excellent teamwork skills with proven ability to collaborate across multiple disciplines to ensure product success and ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority. This includes the ability to lead in bridging communication across business units and between engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customers.
• Presentation skills to internal and external audiences including leaders at the executive level.
• Quantitative mindset, proven ability to investigate open-ended problems, break into first principles analysis, and work cross-functionally to implement initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to work creatively amidst competing priorities and smoothly manage multiple competing deadlines and tasks.
• An ability to think strategically, build a proposed plan of action, and be able to critically argue from different perspectives.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 8 years in a medical device role and 12 years cumulative professional experience in product management, marketing, engineering, business development, or equivalent role

Nice To Haves

• MBA, Graduate level education, or equivalent experience in role
• Experience in medical devices and customer facing roles
• Experience working directly with OUS customers and in OUS markets
• 6 years upstream Product Management or equivalent experience in medical devices

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the European, and potentially, other OUS country regions in terms of market dynamics and adoption of MIS/Da Vinci, digital policies and compliance needs (data residency, privacy position, AI/ML views), clinical areas of focus, which then requires engagement with physician/hospital/policy key opinion leaders (KOL), attending applicable conferences and society meetings, and observing customer use of digital products. This will require international travel to multiple countries and the ability to step into a breadth of scenarios from surgical case observation to government/policymaker/administrator meetings.
• Identify and navigate complex digital technologies, robotic platforms, clinical markets, or programmatic initiatives that bridge across business units and teams. Pull together teams to develop whole product solutions.
• Capture, refine, and validate user needs with feedback from customers, the commercial team, and country data/privacy/legal teams. Use qualitative and quantitative market research methods and direct customer interviews and observations to develop deep insights.
• Establish design requirements, prioritize design efforts, navigate tradeoffs, and document and communicate design decisions. Be a credible partner who works deeply with product development teams.
• Develop downstream claims and clinical evidence strategies to show programmatic evidence that upstream needs are being met.
• Significantly contribute to the product roadmap and lifecycle management in alignment with the portfolio objectives. Develop business justification for recommendations and gain alignment across key stakeholders on project prioritization.
• Collaboratively develop global product commercialization plans and global/regional messaging with global portfolio marketing, regional marketing, and commercial teams.
• Work with product engineering, clinical engineering, competitive insights, and business development teams to evaluate new technologies and prioritize the new business development pipeline.
• Consistently share, uplevel, and influence the broader product management organization on the key insights from various countries so that broader product strategies can become more global aligned, aware, and applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees