Product Manager - Multiport

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 
As a global upstream product manager on the da Vinci® Multiport team, you will become a key development and design stage stakeholder for multiple projects and provide a clinical specialty (e.g., urology) perspective. This is an individual contributor role and will report to a Sr. Group Product Manager.

You will work with cross-functional partners to identify needs; define and guide products through the development process; become a global portfolio expert helping to guide future portfolio recommendations; and work with the commercial downstream teams for product launches. Responsibilities include product business & strategic modeling, product user needs & requirements management, market research, customer interaction, forecasting, pricing, competitive analysis, and supporting commercialized products.

Essential Job Duties

• Develop a deep understanding of the surgical treatments for applicable indications, including monitoring and consuming clinical literature, attending medical society meetings, engaging with physician key opinion leaders (KOLs), and observing live robotic cases. Will require both domestic and international travel.
• Capture, refine, and validate user needs with feedback from customers, the commercial team, and clinical development engineering. Establish design requirements, prioritize design efforts, navigate tradeoffs, and document and communicate design decisions.
• Assist in managing the Multiport product roadmap and lifecycle in alignment with the multiport portfolio objectives. Develop business justification for recommendations and gain alignment across key stakeholders on project prioritization.
• Use qualitative and quantitative market research methods and direct customer interviews and observations to develop insights that inform product development and the product roadmap.
• Collaboratively develop global product commercialization plans with global portfolio marketing, regional marketing, and commercial teams.
• Work with the product engineering and business development teams to evaluate new technologies and prioritize the new business development pipeline.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience 

• 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 between engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customers.
• Presentation skills to internal and external audiences including leaders at the VP level.  Strong PowerPoint or equivalent modality skillset.
• 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.

Required Education and Training 

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 4 or more years