Sr Marketing Manager, Software, OTTAVA

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Marketing

Job Sub Function:

Strategic Marketing

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies is recruiting for a Senior Marketing Manager, Software, OTTAVA, within our Robotics & Digital Solutions organization. The location for this position is Santa Clara, CA.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech.

We seek a Senior Marketing Manager experienced in software to join our team that envisions and delivers the robotic software strategy and roadmap to enable the OTTAVA™ surgical robotics experience.

In this pivotal role, you will contribute to the vision and delivery of the OTTAVA™ Robotic Surgical System. You'll lead upstream marketing activities related to product software in preparation for a successful commercial launch, including software feature definition, go-to-market strategy, and collaborating with R&D and cross-functional partners to achieve critical development milestones and drive key decisions. This is an exciting time to join our rapidly growing team and partner across the OTTAVA marketing team to help build and deliver J&J MedTech’s multi-quadrant surgical robotic system to markets, globally.

We are looking for a self-starter with a proven track record of delivering successful products in a highly matrixed environment, someone who can truly make a difference.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as upstream marketing lead for OTTAVA product software, working closely with cross-functional team in advancing projects through development stage-gates and delivering on critical business objectives.

• Lead and refine the OTTAVA software roadmap and release strategy.

• Continuous gathering of customer insights and competitive intelligence for robotic systems and advanced software capabilities including AI/ML.

• Ensure product features exceed customer expectations and solidify our value proposition.

• Collaborate across R&D, Regulatory, and other departments to foster continuous innovation.

• Develop customer-facing assets to support OTTAVA commercialization activities in close collaboration with marketing and commercial partners as well as external agencies.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, engineering or equivalent. MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of relevant and progressive business experience.

• Experience with software-enabled products in a highly regulated environment.

• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional partners and across organizational boundaries.  Ability to influence and drive to decisions with leadership stakeholders.

• Demonstrated previous experience of successful product development and launch of a software-enabled device.

• Expertise in conducting market research, competitive analysis, gathering user feedback, and articulating reasoning behind product decisions from a customer perspective.

• Self-starter with excellent communication skills and a strong analytical mindset; ability to drive da