Staff Product Manager, Ion Instruments & Accessories

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The Staff Product Manager, Ion Endoluminal will be responsible for product management of the instruments and accessories for Ion, a novel robotic technology for lung access. This role takes ownership in strategic planning, representing the voice of the customer to the organization, and acting as a leading person in product development efforts. This includes executing high-impact future oriented projects to elevate the capabilities of future Ion platforms, working closely to translate customer insights into user needs. To work across multiple product franchises, in multiple geographies, and in partnership with multiple cross-functional partners, this person will have a unique breadth and story-telling platform, tying the value-proposition into a cohesive and compelling story for future products.

Essential Job Duties

Product Roadmap Development

• Drive the Desirability and Feasibility assessment for advanced product development in alignment with the company’s long-term priorities. Develop business justification for recommendations and gain alignment across key partners on project prioritization
• Develop a deep knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and future clinical spaces, including monitoring and consuming clinical literature, attending medical society meetings and engaging with physician key opinion leaders.
• Recognize emerging and complementary technology and its impact on Intuitive’s product lines.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative market research. Direct customer interviews (patients, HCPs & their care team, providers and payers) and observations to develop insights and inform the product roadmap.

Product Design, Development and Launch

• Propose next-generation products and services aligned with customer needs and company’s long-term targets:
  • Identify and clearly articulate unmet customer needs
  • Evaluate fit or prototype product solutions
  • Evaluate critical business requirements and potential product impact
  • Cross-functionally manage projects through the product development process including developing market requirements and product requirements
  • Negotiate core product tradeoffs and create alignment across key cross-functional collaborators, including design engineering, clinical development engineers and manufacturing while keeping the needs of the customer and the business in mind.
  • Establish product positioning, claims, messaging and pricing.
  • Ensure execution of a smooth product rollout process, including global product launch.
  • Measure product success by implementing KPIs, monitoring product adoption, and seeking post-launch product feedback.

Business Analysis

• Ability to use data to develop market and product insights and drive decision making
• Integrate voice-of-customer and field intelligence into the product roadmap development
• Identify high potential product investigations by potential market size, customer value, financial impact and willingness-to-pay for proposed product concepts
• Negotiate core product tradeoffs between cost and performing; align key cross-functional collaborators

Inbound and Outbound Business Development

• Work with the product engineering and business development teams t