Physician - Corporate Strategy

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive seeks an MD physician innovator embedded in its Future Forward Incubator to translate clinical insights into new growth opportunities. The role identifies unmet clinical needs, evaluates strategic fit, and shapes technology concepts from hypothesis through early de-risking.

The candidate may come from strong clinical practice with exposure to innovation or from venture/startup backgrounds with an MD fluency to assess patient care and clinician workflows.

Qualifications

• MD physician with clinical practice experience or MD background with exposure to innovation, venture, startups, Biodesign, or product development.
• Experience translating clinical insights into concise need statements and opportunity hypotheses.
• Familiarity with venture/startup environments and corporate strategy concepts.

Responsibilities

• Identify unmet clinical needs through clinical immersion, literature review, market sensing, and stakeholder input.
• Translate physician and patient insights into need statements, hypotheses, workflows, requirements, and de-risking plans.
• Evaluate early-stage opportunities for clinical importance, feasibility, strategic fit, adoption barriers, competitive landscape, and business impact.
• Collaborate with engineering and design to define clinical use cases, workflows, performance goals, and prototype feedback loops.

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of the Position

The Physician, Corporate Strategy is an MD physician innovator embedded within Intuitive’s Future Forward Incubator. This role translates clinical insight and early-market understanding into new growth opportunities, helping identify unmet clinical needs, evaluate strategic fit, and shape technology concepts from initial hypothesis through early de-risking. We are open to candidates who bring one of two complementary profiles: (1) strong clinical practice experience with exposure to innovation, venture, startups, business development, Biodesign, or product development; or (2) deep venture, startup, business development, Biodesign, or corporate strategy experience with an MD background and enough medical/clinical fluency to credibly assess patient care, procedure workflows, and clinician needs. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, clinical, product, regulatory, reimbursement, and strategy partners to determine which opportunities should advance and how they should be clinically and commercially framed.

Essential Job Duties

• Identify, frame, and prioritize unmet clinical needs using clinical immersion, literature review, market sensing, and voice-of-customer input.
• Translate physician and patient insights into concise need statements, opportunity hypotheses, clinical workflows, requirements, and early de-risking plans.
• Evaluate early-stage opportunities for clinical importance, feasibility, strategic fit, adoption barriers, competitive landscape, and potential business impact.
• Partner with engineering and design teams to define clinical use cases, procedural workflows, performance goals, and prototype feedback loops for new platforms.
• Lead or support early clinical de-risking activities, including preclinical studies, simulated use, workflow validation, and early feasibility planning where appropriate.
• Develop point-of-view assessments on emerging technologies, startups, venture-backed innovation, adjacent markets, and external partnership opportunities.
• Collaborate with regulatory, reimbursement, health economics, product, and commercial strategy partners to shape indication strategy and development pathways.
• Engage KOLs, clinicians, entrepreneurs, academic innovators, and external partners to validate concepts and inform investment decisions.
• Communicate findings to senior stakeholders through clear written recommendations, executive presentations, and data-driven opportunity narratives.