Director, Software Product Development

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott 

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: 

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. 

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree. 

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.  

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.  

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Livermore, CA location in the Abbott Heart Failure, Acelis Connected Health (ACH) business.  Our Heart Failure solutions are helping address some of the World’s greatest healthcare challenges.

The Director of Software Product Development reports to the Divisional Vice President and General Manager of Acelis Connected Health. The Director of Software Product Development leads all aspects for the portfolio of customer and patient facing solutions. This includes defining and commercializing scalable, trusted, and extensible architecture, providing oversight for design, development and evolution of solutions, and establishing processes and tools to realize the strategy efficiently. This position is a key member of the business leadership team and will provide technical input into the development and execution of strategic plans to create customer focused digital products and services. The Director of Software Product Development will work closely with the cross-functional team, support functions, and partners to establish and achieve goals while ensuring compatibility with all systems involved.

What You’ll Work On 

• The technical leader within the business. Create a long-term roadmap & platform strategy for a secure, interoperable, data analytics, and AI driven non-medical software offering including cloud, desktop, mobile, and analytics.

• Lead team to develop, maintain, and ensure reliability and quality of current and future products and services. 

• Provide technical assistance throughout software development lifecycle, including diagnosing software problems.

• Provide leadership to design/development teams to keep focus.  Provides design/development teams with appropriate resources to perform assigned tasks and deliver on commitments. 

• Interface with appropriate internal and external resources to ensure intellectual property is appropriately protected.

• Actively monitor technology trends and competitive dynamics while integrating and adapting internal plans accordingly.

• Keep senior management team informed of design/development progress and issues.

• Track and forecast product and technology projects. Provide leadership to ensure cross-functional delivery of programs.

• Contribute to business unit and divisional strategy planning.

• Develop and manage depa