Staff Product Manager – Upstream Software

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

Product Managers play a critical role in Ion’s success by empowering teams across technical and commercial functions to bring life-changing tools to our customers and patients. The Staff Software Product Manager will be responsible for the development of the next-generation software portfolio of Ion, a novel robotic technology for lung access. This role will own the next generation software product roadmap across multiple product franchises, scoping the development of new software features, and owning the end-to-end system-level software experience.

The ideal candidate for this role must have excellent communication, organization, and technical skills. The ability to evangelize product narratives to key collaborators, while maintaining a high attention to detail, and serving as the central point-of-contact for next generation software product development workstreams is key.

Expertise in product management methodology, project management methodology, software development, early stage product conceptualization, and product roadmap development within healthcare/medical devices is a plus. This role will report to the Group Product Manager of software.

Essential Job Duties

Product Strategy and Roadmap Development

• Develop next generation software product roadmap across multiple product franchises in the Ion business unit
• 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

Market Landscape and Voice of Customer

• Recognize market-leading, emerging, and complementary technology, and its impact on Intuitive’s endoluminal 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

Marketing Claims:

• Develop customer segmentation and marketing claims strategy for next generation product franchises
• Drive cross-functional alignment on pre and post-launch product roadmap and data collection in pre-clinical and clinical settings

Product Feature Development and Prioritization

• Partner with product franchise leads to develop and prioritize software product investigations, features, and product requirements for next generation software
• Partner with UX and Clinical to prototype and assess prototype product solutions.
• Evaluate critical business requirements and potential product impact

End-to-End Ownership of Software Features

• Own and scope the end-to-end software experience for users across next generation product franchises and global geographies to ensure a unified, consistent, and streamlined user experience
• Drive desirability, feasibility, and viability assessments of next generation software product features to prioritize next generation product portfolio

Business Analysis

• Ability to collect, organize, and leverage datasets to build business cases and drive business decisions for next generation software product lines
• Ident