Product Manager, Digital

Abbott Laboratories; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Diabetes Care seeks a Product Manager to lead mobile app strategy and lifecycle within the CGM ecosystem from Alameda, CA. You will translate clinical, user, and business needs into product requirements and guide cross‑functional teams through development and commercialization in a regulated medical device environment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering, UX, regulatory, quality, and commercial teams to deliver patient‑centered digital health solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for consumer mobile apps in the CGM ecosystem.
• Translate user needs into clear mobile app requirements and priorities.
• Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, design, data, regulatory, and QA.
• Assess usability, privacy, security, and localization for global markets.
• Analyze market, customer, and competitive data to identify improvements.
• Support regulated medical device development activities and design controls.
• Manage dependencies across apps, services, data, and launch plans.
• Define success metrics for app reliability, adoption, and commercial performance.
• Collaborate with marketing, training, field, and support for launches.
• Communicate product vision and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders.

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

About Abbott

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Join us at Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) in our mission to help individuals with diabetes lead active, fulfilling lives. We’re focused on helping people manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life‑changing products that provide accurate data to drive better‑informed decisions. The Product Manager will lead product strategy, roadmap definition, and lifecycle execution for mobile app experiences within Abbott Diabetes Care’s CGM ecosystem. With a particular focus on the digital needs of people who use insulin, this role will translate customer, clinical, business, and technical needs into clear product requirements, partner cross‑functionally across product development and commercialization teams, and guide decisions that advance the product experience from concept through commercialization in a regulated medical device environment. This is an onsite opportunity based out of Alameda, CA.

What You’ll Work On

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for consumer‑facing mobile apps within Abbott Diabetes Care’s CGM ecosystem, balancing the needs of people who use insulin with clinical value, user experience, technical feasibility, regulatory and quality requirements, and business impact.


• Translate the needs of people with diabetes, caregivers, health care professionals, commercial partners, and the business into clear product requirements and priorities for mobile app functionality, onboarding, data visualization, connectivity, and system‑level experiences.


• Lead cross‑functional alignment with mobile engineering, platform and backend engineering, product design, UX research and human factors, data and analytics, clinical, regulatory, quality, cybersecurity and privacy, marketing, sales, and customer support teams.


• Apply strong digital health and mobile product judgment to evaluate tradeoffs related to usability, accessibility, reliability, performance, privacy, security, interoperability, localization, and global market needs.


• Conduct market, customer, competitive, and product performance analysis to identify opportunities that improve the mobile app and broader CGM ecosystem experience, product quality, user confidence, and commercial performance.


• Support regulated medical device development activities, including design controls, system requirements, risk management inputs, human factors, verification and validation planning, clinical and regulatory evidence needs, and quality system expectations.


• Support regulated digital medical device development activities, including design controls, software and system requirements, risk management inputs, human factors, verification and validation planning, cybersecurity and privacy requirements, clinical and regulatory evidence needs, and quality system expectations.


• Manage dependencies across mobile apps, platform and backend services, device connectivity, data and analytics, clinical, regulatory, and launch plans; anticipate risks, resolve priority conflicts, and keep teams focused on critical‑path decisions.


• Define and monitor success metrics for app reliability, quality signals, customer satisfaction, adoption, engagement, support trends, and commercial performance; adapt plans based on data and stakeholder input.


• Partner with marketing, training, field, and support teams to prepare positioning, launch readiness, sales enablement, customer‑facing communications, and lifecycle updates for mobile app launches and releases.


• Communicate product vision, customer needs, technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders, bringing a digital health and mobile product perspective to CGM ecosystem strategy and execution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree


• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA


• Healthcare or medical device industry experience

The base pay for this position is $114,000.00 – $228,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job Details

• Job Family: Product Management


• Division: ADC Diabetes Care


• Location: United States > Alameda : 2601 Harbor Bay Parkway


• Additional Locations:


• Work Shift: Standard


• Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time


• Medical Surveillance: No


• Significant Work Activities: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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About Abbott (continued)

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next‑generation diagnostics, life‑changing devices, science‑based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.

The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well‑being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges.

We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

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