Senior Hardware Product Manager - CGM Systems

Thornton Tomasetti; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Diabetes Care in Alameda, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for hardware and system components within our CGM ecosystem. You’ll translate clinical and business needs into clear requirements and partner across hardware, software, and regulatory teams.

The role requires 5+ years in product management, a engineering-leaning degree, and healthcare/medical device domain experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Engineering preferred)
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
• MBA preferred
• Healthcare or medical device industry experience

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for hardware and system components within an Abbott Diabetes Care CGM ecosystem, balancing user needs, technical feasibility, quality, manufacturability, and business impact.
• Translate patient, caregiver, health care professional, commercial, and business needs into clear product requirements and priorities for hardware, sensor, reader, applicator, accessories, connectivity, and system-level experiences.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with hardware engineering, systems engineering, sensor technology, embedded software/firmware, mobile app, UX/human factors, clinical, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, marketing, sales, and customer support teams.
• Apply strong hardware and medical device product judgment to evaluate design tradeoffs related to reliability, usability, wearability, performance, durability, cost, manufacturability, serviceability, and global market needs.
• Conduct market, customer, competitive, and product performance analysis to identify opportunities that improve 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.
• Manage dependencies across hardware, firmware, software, manufacturing, supply, clinical, regulatory and launch plans; anticipate risks, resolve priority conflicts, and keep teams focused on critical path decisions.
• Define and monitor success metrics for product reliability, quality signals, manufacturing readiness, customer satisfaction, adoption, 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 hardware and system components.
• Communicate product vision, technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders, bringing a hardware-grounded medical device perspective to CGM ecosystem strategy and execution.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmap definition

Lifecycle management

Cross-functional collaboration

Hardware/medical device knowledge

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Engineering preferred)

MBA

Job description

Abbott Diabetes Care in Alameda, CA is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for hardware and system components within our CGM ecosystem. You’ll translate clinical and business needs into clear requirements and partner across hardware, software, and regulatory teams.

The role requires 5+ years in product management, a engineering-leaning degree, and healthcare/medical device domain experience.