Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Program Manager

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead Digital portfolio initiatives spanning software product delivery, cloud infrastructure build-out, and platform engineering.

The role prioritizes delivering outcomes on scope, schedule, and budget within regulatory standards. The ideal candidate combines program leadership with deep infrastructure fluency, excellent communication, and a track record of influencing at multiple levels while driving disciplined

Qualifications

• Demonstrated history of leadership in project, program, and portfolio management of software delivery programs involving infrastructure, at scale.
• Meaningful technical fluency in infrastructure platforms, DevOps practices, and cloud operations
• Understanding of environment management, change control, and infrastructure provisioning workflows
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline concepts, DevOps principles, containerization, and tooling sufficient to understand release dependencies and risks
• Strong grasp of software product development engineering principles, manufacturing, servicing, and quality control.
• Proven ability to think strategically, plan, and align product development with business goals and market needs.
• Naturally accountable and responsible; self-starter, self-motivated, self-directed, self-sufficient.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization.
• Ability to recognize project challenges and drive creative and simple solutions with a customer-focused approach
• Proven ability to influence at various levels and drive conflict resolution with low drama

Responsibilities

• Effectively manage cross-functional development programs across Intuitive's different Business units and shared services, overseeing critical projects including cloud and infrastructure, and delivering against commitments and outcomes
• Help teams prioritize tasks to focus on the critical activities that drive progress and avoid being sidetracked by less important issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Infrastructure environment dependencies, to ensure the right people are updated with the right information at the right time on status and ensure that cross-product dependencies are understood, planned for, and crisply executed
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and gather data from functions to proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions
• Drive required discipline and rigor in requirements analysis, design, development, and testing through good development practices and effective use of phase gates.
• Work across the organization and external partners as needed to align functional support and input for the project
• Contribute to and help lead improvements to Intuitive project management processes and ongoing improvements to the way we ship new products and capabilities.
• Function as a primary point of contact for stakeholders across the org. stakeholders across the org.

Skills

Leadership

DevOps

Cloud operations

Environment management

Change control

CI/CD

Containerization

Product development

Strategic thinking

Communication

Customer-focused

Influence

Conflict resolution

Education

PM experience

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Regulated/medical devices

Design Controls

Regulations

PM Certifications

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead Digital portfolio initiatives spanning software product delivery, cloud infrastructure build-out, and platform engineering.

The role prioritizes delivering outcomes on scope, schedule, and budget within regulatory standards. The ideal candidate combines program leadership with deep infrastructure fluency, excellent communication, and a track record of influencing at multiple levels while driving disciplined