Sr. Product Manager, Instruments - GYN

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Future Forward Product Manager to oversee the full lifecycle of Future Forward products, guiding research, requirements, design, and launch. You will collaborate with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to align on strategies that maximize patient impact and business value.

You will build market insights, frame product opportunities by surgical specialty, and drive commercialization with global teams while prioritizing quality and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Manage Future Forward products across the entire lifecycle.
• Develop market and user research, write product requirements, lead development and launch.
• Product business & strategic modeling, user needs & requirements management, market research, customer interaction, forecasting, pricing, competitive analysis, and new product proposals.
• Frame efforts by surgical specialty and product technology.
• Assist in managing the Future Forward product roadmap and lifecycle; develop business justification for recommendations and gain alignment on prioritization.
• Develop business analyses including competitive assessments to enable data-driven decisions.
• Use qualitative and quantitative market research and direct customer interviews to develop insights for the roadmap.
• Lead cross-functional product teams including engineering, sales and marketing to execute the plan.
• Represent product management in development, complete market and product requirement documents, and facilitate tradeoff discussions.
• Engage with Human Factors and Interaction Design by establishing design requirements and documenting decisions.
• Convey product value proposition to global marketing for positioning and messaging.
• Measure product success by adoption and post-launch feedback.
• Develop deep understanding of surgical treatments and engage with KOLs.
• Collaboratively develop global product commercialization plans with regional teams.
• Understand competitive and emerging tech and its impact on Intuitive’s product lines.
• Work with product engineering and business development to evaluate new technologies and prioritize pipeline.
• Monitor and prioritize product quality issues and coordinate cross-functional resolution.
• Participate in product education programs and sustaining activities including end of life.

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Future Forward Product Manager:

You will manage Future Forward products across the entire product lifecycle. You will develop and conduct market and user research, make product proposals, write product requirements and lead the product through development, design and launch stages. Responsibilities include product business & strategic modeling, product user needs & requirements management, market research, customer interaction, forecasting, pricing, competitive analysis, and new product proposals. You will have the ability to frame these efforts by surgical specialty and product technology.

In your first year, you can expect to:

• Assist in managing the Future Forward product roadmap and lifecycle in alignment with Intuitive portfolio objectives. Develop business justification for recommendations and gain alignment across key stakeholders on project prioritization.
• Develop the business justification for new products and features by working with customers and company stakeholders. Develop business analyses, including competitive assessments, to facilitate sound data-driven decision making.
• Use qualitative and quantitative market research methods and direct customer interviews and observations to develop insights that inform the product roadmap. Refine requirements with feedback from customers, clinical sales and clinical development engineering.
• Lead cross-functional product teams including engineering, sales and marketing to execute against the product plan.
• Represent product management in the product development process, complete deliverables such as market requirements and product requirements documents and facilitate tradeoff discussions with design teams while keeping the needs of the customer and the business in mind.
• Engage with Human Factors and Interaction Design partners during the development process by establishing design requirements, prioritizing design efforts, coordinating design reviews, and documenting and communicating design decisions.
• Convey product value proposition to global marketing for global product positioning and messaging.
• Measure product success by monitoring product adoption and seeking post-launch product feedback.
• Develop a deep understanding of the surgical treatments for applicable indications, including monitoring and consuming clinical literature, attending medical society meetings and engaging with physician key opinion leaders (KOLs).
• Collaboratively develop global product commercialization plans with regional marketing and commercial teams.
• Understand competitive, emerging and complementary technology and its potential impact on Intuitive’s product lines.
• Work with the product engineering and business development teams to evaluate new technologies and prioritize the new business development pipeline.
• Monitor and prioritize product quality issues. Work on cross-functional teams to resolve product issues and critical customer issues.
• Conduct additional activities across the product lifecycle as needed including, participating in product education program development and supporting sustaining product activities including end of life.