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Senior Upstream Product Manager – Structural Heart
Job in
California, Moniteau County, Missouri, 65018, USA
Listed on 2026-09-15
Listing for:
Jobtailor
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-15
Job specializations:
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Marketing / Advertising / PR
Marketing Strategy, Product Marketing, Market Research
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Build deep therapy expertise across disease states, treatment pathways, physician workflows, current and emerging therapies, technologies, market trends, adoption barriers, and unmet clinical needs
- Represent upstream marketing on product development teams
- Translate customer insight and business strategy into product requirements, program priorities, and trade-off decisions
- Partner with R&D, clinical, regulatory, medical affairs, commercial, finance, and other functions to shape differentiated products
- Collect, analyze, and synthesize Voice of Customer, Voice of Business, market research, competitive intelligence, and stakeholder input
- Translate unmet needs into product requirements, value propositions, evidence needs, and business recommendations
- Engage physician key opinion leaders, customers, internal stakeholders, and third-party market research groups
- Develop business plans, market models, and opportunity assessments
- Monitor emerging technologies, competitive moves, treatment trends, and external market developments
- Help define the future innovation and evidence pipeline
- Participate in strategic portfolio planning
- Deliver presentations to internal partners, senior leaders, and external physician experts
- Build trusted relationships with key opinion leaders, customers, and internal experts
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to move complex projects forward
- Frame ambiguous problems, clarify assumptions, identify decision points, and create practical paths forward
- Identify and champion new approaches to business, technology, operations, and marketing challenges
- Provide management and cross-functional partners with updates, reports, content, and presentations
- Manage a broad stakeholder environment and influence without direct authority
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 7+ years in a marketing, sales, strategy or engineering role (5+ years with Masters)
- Project management experience
- Upstream or strategic marketing experience, including innovation strategy, product pipeline development, evidence planning, and portfolio planning activities
- Experience translating customer needs, clinical insights, and technical trade-offs into product requirements, business cases, or strategic recommendations
- Strong experience interfacing with physician customers both individually and in group settings
- Track record and passion for effectively partnering with cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment
- Experience influencing stakeholders without direct authority, including situations with competing priorities or incomplete information
- Strong business and strategic acumen
- Excellent communication and relationship skills
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity
- Able to travel up to 35%
- Medical device or other healthcare industry experience
- For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required
- Roles below the Principal level require unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment
Demonstrates expertise in upstream marketing, product pipeline development, and strategic planning within the healthcare industry. Proven ability to translate customer insights into actionable product requirements and effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords- Upstream Marketing Experience
- Project Management Experience
- Strong Business Acumen
- Stakeholder Influence Without Authority
- Medical Device Industry Experience
- Product Pipeline Development
- Market Research Analysis
- Voice of Customer Synthesis
- Evidence Planning
- Business Case Development
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Relationship Building
- Ability to Thrive in Ambiguity
- Collaboration in Matrixed Environment
- Healthcare Industry
- Clinical Insights
- Strategic Portfolio Planning
- Market Trends
- Emerging Technologies
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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