Director, Product Manager Type 2 (Hybrid: Acton, MA)

Job Summary

SeInsulet is a mission-driven company focused on creating innovative medical solutions that enhance the lives of people with diabetes and their supporters. The Director of Product Management plays a crucial role in this effort by advocating for the product's purpose, defining priorities, and collaborating with technical teams to meet user needs. Insulet employs cross-functional teams, integrating disciplines like engineering, UX, software, and clinical expertise to ensure successful product development. This role involves accountability for product success, including user experience, market performance, and reliability, while also sharing responsibilities for timely delivery and budget management. By working closely with product marketing, system architects, and program management, the Director helps shape the vision and strategy for Insulet’s product lines, contributing to the company's commitment to improving health outcomes through connected consumer medical solutions.e email

Insulet started in 2000 with an idea and a mission to enable our customers to enjoy simplicity, freedom, and healthier lives through the use of our Omnipod® product platform. In the last two decades we have improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients by using innovative technology that is wearable, waterproof, and lifestyle accommodating.

We are looking for highly motivated, performance-driven individuals to be a part of our expanding team. We do this by hiring amazing people guided by shared values who exceed customer expectations. Our continued success depends on it!

Position Overview

Insulet is a mission driven company that develops extraordinary, innovative products that directly impact people’s lives and health. We are developing connected consumer medical solutions with a combination of hardware, software, mobile, cloud, and wearables for people living with diabetes and the people that support them. Our mission is to both simplify people’s lives while improving their outcomes. As the product leader, the Director of Product Management must evangelize the product and bring the ‘Why’ to the teams, define and prioritize the ‘What’, and work closely with the technical leadership to ensure the ‘How’ delivers on the user needs.

To deliver outstanding products, Insulet approaches development with cross functional product teams with resources from many disciplines (e.g., mechanical engineering, embedded electronics, UX and human factors, software engineering, cloud architecture, clinical, regulatory, and commercial) contributing to each program. In this role you are primarily accountable for the success of the product that is released (user experience, commercial success, field reliability), and have shared responsibility with Program Management for timeliness to market and program budget.

Working closely with a peer in product marketing, a system architect, and program management, you achieve these objectives by ensuring that the product vision, system design, and regulatory and clinical strategies, are optimized to efficiently deliver an outstanding product to Insulet’s users.  You will also help to create the vision and strategy for the different product lines.

If you are driven, intellectually curious, technical, and are looking for the opportunity to apply your product expertise to an incredible mission working with great teams and innovative technology then come join the Insulet team.

Responsibilities

• Steward of the product line, ensuring vision and intent across releases, ensuring simplicity, usability, and HCP confidence are preserved as the product is delivered on time & scales.
• Lead MVP shaping within an established roadmap, making informed tradeoffs across scope, risk, usability, and delivery timing.

• Coach Principle through Associate Product Managers through ambiguity and complexity, helping teams balance near‑term delivery with long‑term coherence across multiple release versions and time horizons. Ensure product managers  deliver to intent into clear product definitions, requirements, and acceptance criteria across PM‑owned domains.
• Collaborate with Marketing to ensure that the product vision is clear and compelling, and that the planned product will deliver commercial success by delivering meaningful innovation and value to users
• Partner with peers in PMO, Marketing, and Development as a key member of leadership team for the solution/product line
• Guide product managers and product owners to ensure that the product vision is well-understood by all members of the product team and that each feature delivers its part of a cohesive vision
• Evangelize the product to the product team to continually guide teams towards the vision
• Owns a platform or solution including the roadmap of releases, guiding other product managers on the specific releases.