Director, Product Manager Type 2

• Steward the product line and preserve product vision, simplicity, usability, and HCP confidence across releases
• Lead MVP shaping within an established roadmap and make tradeoffs across scope, risk, usability, and delivery timing
• Coach Principal through Associate Product Managers through ambiguity and complexity
• Ensure product managers create clear product definitions, requirements, and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with Marketing to clarify product vision and drive commercial success
• Partner with PMO, Marketing, and Development as a leadership team member for the solution/product line
• Guide product managers and product owners in delivering a cohesive product vision
• Evangelize the product to the product team
• Own a platform or solution and its release roadmap
• Align product metrics with organizational KPIs
• Develop analytics methods and collect user insights to shape vision and strategy
• Define solutions and oversee the product through delivery
• Partner with the Systems Architect to align architectural and feature roadmaps
• Work with strategic technical partners in the technology organization
• Provide leadership and enthusiasm to the program team
• Manage portfolio-level scope and assess scope change requests
• Enhance product-management discovery and delivery processes
• Define and manage product-management metrics
• Ensure the product is delivered on time and within budget with Program Management
• Work in an Agile environment and own the solution backlog
• Ensure development work is ready and understood by development teams
• Participate in and help drive user-experience research
• Mentor other Product Managers

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent
• MBA preferred
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in the field, with 10 years of software development experience and/or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience as a product manager
• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the medical device product development lifecycle, with multiple releases of experience
• Class II+ medical device experience
• Knowledge to approve design history file elements and defend in audits as responsible for product
• Experience working with cross-functional disciplines including engineering, UX and human factors, software engineering, cloud architecture, clinical, regulatory, and commercial functions
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Product backlog ownership experience
• User-experience research experience
• Strategic roadmap and product metrics experience

Demonstrates extensive experience in product management, particularly in the medical device sector, with a strong focus on Agile methodologies, user-experience research, and strategic roadmap development. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage product life cycles while aligning product metrics with organizational goals.

• Product Management
• Agile Methodologies
• User-Experience Research
• Medical Device Development
• Strategic Roadmap Development

• Product Backlog Ownership
• Analytics Methods Development
• Product Definition and Requirements
• Acceptance Criteria Creation
• Scope Management
• Portfolio Management
• Design History File Approval
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Product Metrics Management
• MVP Shaping

• Leadership
• Coaching
• Collaboration
• Mentoring
• Enthusiasm

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
• MBA Preferred

• Medical Device
• Class II+ Medical Device
• Product Development Lifecycle
• Regulatory Compliance
• Human Factors Engineering

• Agile Tools
• User-Experience Research Tools
• Product Management Software
• Cloud Architecture