Senior Marketing Manager, Academics & Society Engagement

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

Position Overview

The Senior Manager, Academic & Society Engagement will shape the future of da Vinci surgery by working directly with surgical societies and academic medical centers to drive formal endorsements, standardized training, and best practices. Leading society engagement, you will drive guideline inclusion, training requirements, and procedural standardization, leveraging clinical data, peer-reviewed research, and faculty advocacy to establish da Vinci surgery as a recognized standard of care. Collaborating across Clinical Marketing, Product, Digital, Customer Training, and Academic Key Accounts, you will align academic and society strategies to drive training standardization, faculty mentorship, and sustainable procedural growth.

Amplify da Vinci 5 Adoption and Validation in Academics 

• Shape the future of surgical education: Drive da Vinci 5 curriculum integration with resident benchmarks, publish training protocols, and scale best in class training with key faculty.
• Establish evidence-based training standards: Scale validated strategies for Force Feedback, Case Insights, and Dual Console training across our Academic Top 100 Academic Medical Centers.
• Strengthen academic chair and chief networks: build success stories and collaborations with Department Chairs, Division Chiefs, and Program Directors to accelerate da Vinci 5 multi-specialty adoption and research.

Drive Society Champions of da Vinci Surgery 

• Shape the future of surgical standards: Lead engagement and tradeshow execution with priority academic societies to drive guideline inclusion, training requirements, and procedural standardization for da Vinci surgery.
• Secure formal society endorsements: Establish da Vinci as a recognized standard of care by integrating clinical data, surgeon best practices, and peer-reviewed research beyond the Intuitive tradeshow and into their scientific programs.
• Modernize residency and fellowship curriculum standards: Engage and empower society leaders and da Vinci champions to drive resident curriculum standardization, benign procedure adoption, and society guideline changes.
• Lead strategic society analysis across clinical marketing: Research each society’s membership demographics, financial health, and leadership structure to identify high-value partnerships and advocacy opportunities that advance da Vinci surgery.

Accelerate Academic Faculty Adoption and Procedural Growth

• Elevate early practice alumni as thought leaders: Position early practice academic medical center alumni as da Vinci champions, elevating them as key influencers and thought leaders.
• Develop academic faculty KOLS who can shape Program Director belief and effective programmatic adoption of da Vinci as part of academic tripartite mission. 
• Empower the next generation of surgeons: Integrate KOLs into local peer-to-peer events and key sessions at Intuitive 360, CONNECT, and society symposia to drive belief and adoption of da Vinci. 
• Elevate impact of peer-to-peer events in academic residency programs: Drive Journal Clubs, training bootcamps, remote case observation watch parties to build confidence in benign procedures and acute care.
• Amplify academic success stories: Highlight case st