Senior Program Manager, Medical Software and Cloud Delivery

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

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a seasoned Program Manager within the Digital organization to deliver complex infrastructure-driven software programs.

You will drive cross‑functional delivery, manage budgets, schedules, and regulatory requirements, and influence stakeholder outcomes with rigor and clarity. The role emphasizes strong program management fundamentals, ability to lead through influence, and experience with cloud environments, DevOps, security, and compliance in

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.

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.

Skills

Program leadership

Infrastructure fluency

DevOps practices

CI/CD workflows

Cloud operations

Change control

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Conflict resolution

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a seasoned Program Manager within the Digital organization to deliver complex infrastructure-driven software programs.

You will drive cross‑functional delivery, manage budgets, schedules, and regulatory requirements, and influence stakeholder outcomes with rigor and clarity. The role emphasizes strong program management fundamentals, ability to lead through influence, and experience with cloud environments, DevOps, security, and compliance in