Product Manager - New Product Type 2 (Hybrid) Acton, MA

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, the Product Manager will be responsible for developing and commercializing new products and line extensions for the Type 2 Platform. 

The successful leader will have experience leading end-to-end product management for global connected products, with the ability to translate business goals into high-impact product initiatives.  Informed by deep understanding of customer needs, competitive dynamics in the market, and technology constraints and opportunities, he/she/they will develop and lead the execution of a roadmap that positions Insulet for sustained market leadership.  They’ll achieve this by cultivating empowered, high-impact teams, and guiding teams through the full product development lifecycle, providing strong cross-functional leadership.  He/she/they will develop and own business cases for new product initiatives and work cross functionally to deliver market-beating products on-time and on-budget, to advance Insulet’s mission to improve the lives of people with diabetes.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate deep understanding of customer needs, competitive dynamics, and market opportunities.
• Lead teams through data-driven processes to test commercial viability and technical feasibility, and then translate learnings into business cases informed by clear roadmaps and global platform execution plans
• Develop and articulate a clear vision for products and lead execution of the integrated roadmap to achieve enterprise and franchise level goals
• Own full product lifecycle, guiding trade-offs and release plans for new features, launches in new global markets, in-market sustaining activities, and technical debt retirement
• Define integrated release targets & scope, value proposition & delivery to drive growth, provide customers with cadence of new innovations, and maximize return on investment
• Responsible for on-market product performance, including but not limited to market share, retention, product complaints, etc.
• Accountable to build and deliver business cases
• Lead execution and release of product initiatives with technology teams, medical, regulatory, manufacturing and other teams across Insulet to lead on-budget, on-time cross-functional execution to realize value and advance Insulet’s mission
• Collaborate with Product Marketing Managers to shape integrated launch strategy for global products
• Collaborate with other product managers to establish processes and best practices for Product Management and Product Owners at Insulet
• Coordinate on architecture and scalability requirements and guide investment timing
• Create bottom-up planning for annual & strategic plans
• Coordinate medical & scientific input & review
• Collaborate on franchise roadmap and priorities in relation to enterprise-wide strategies

Key Decision Rights

• Decisions related to product strategy, including setting product roadmap and defining feature sets
• Decisions related to priority of product features and improvements

Required Leadership Skills & Behaviors

• A passionate, inspirational leader who leads with an enterprise mindset, challenges the status quo, and can align the organization behind a clear vision and strategy
• Has strong emotional intelligence and ability to engage and lead others through change to advance new ways of working
• Experience guiding high performance teams, driving accountability, empowerment, customer centricity and collaboration across functions and teams.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Customer-obsessed mindset with ability to translate customer insight into product vision and lead execution to achieve franchise goals
• Strong business acumen and passion for delivering impact by executing world-changing technologies
• Strong market sensing, customer intimacy translated into customer needs and achievable product requirements; instinctively a data-driven decision maker
• An enterprise-level thinker and leader in decision making 
• Strong ability to influence, interact, and lead globally
• Strong cross-functional leader, able to bring out the best in cross-functional colleagues to guide swift, effective trade-offs and decision-making
• Ability to translate complex strategies into high impact tactical initiatives with strong project management
• Ability to work cross functionally to develop and realize business case for investments anchored in customer needs, how to realize that globally, and deliver against business case
• Ability to translate business cases into a roadmap informed by technical constraints, balancing technical with desired business outcomes 
• Role model cross functional collab