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Position: Senior Product Manager, Future Forward

Senior Product Manager, Future Forward (Finance)

Company Description
It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

Were a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

The Future Forward organization is Intuitive's advanced concepts group. We explore emerging technologies, prototype next-generation solutions, and build software experiences that shape the future of robotic-assisted surgery.

If you're ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you'll find your purpose here.

Job Description
Primary Function of Position

The Senior Product Manager, Future Forward will support product management of novel robotic platforms and technologies. This includes executing future-oriented projects to advance the capabilities of future platforms, working closely with customers to capture voice of customer and translate research and insights into user needs. Interface with cross-functional teams including Product Design, Interaction Design, Human Factors, Clinical Development Engineering and Engineering to develop product requirements and represent the customer through the Product Development Process (PDP), support trade-off discussions and help prepare new products for commercial launch.

This role contributes to strategic planning, represents the voice of the customer to the organization, and plays a key role in product development efforts. Working across product franchises, in multiple geographies, and in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders across Product Operations and Commercial functions, this person will help tie the value-proposition of multiple products into a cohesive and compelling story that ranges across the portfolio lifecycle (from launch to end-of-life).

Essential Job Duties

Roadmap Development

Contribute to the product roadmap, particularly the Desirability and Feasibility aspects, in alignment with the company's long-term priorities. Support business justification for recommendations and help gain alignment across key stakeholders on project prioritization.
Develop a solid understanding of the diagnosis and treatment of new clinical spaces, including monitoring and consuming clinical literature, attending medical society meetings and engaging with physician key opinion leaders.
Understand market-leading, emerging and complementary technology and its impact on Intuitive's product lines.
Conduct qualitative and quantitative market research. Perform customer interviews (patients, HCPs & their care team, providers and payers) and observations to develop insights and inform the product roadmap.

Product Design, Development and Launch

Support the development of next-generation products and services aligned with customer needs and company's long-term targets:

Identify and clearly articulate unmet customer needs
Evaluate fit or prototype product solutions
Evaluate critical business requirements and potential product impact
Support cross-functional project management through the product development process including developing market requirements and product requirements
Support core product tradeoff discussions and help create alignment across key cross-functional stakeholders, including design engineering, clinical development engineers and manufacturing.
Participate in tradeoff discussions with design teams while keeping the needs of the customer and the business in mind.
Contribute to product positioning, claims, messaging and support market research for pricing.
Support execution of a smooth product rollout process, including global product launch. Participate on cross-functional product rollout teams to prepare products for worldwide launch.
Measure product success by monitoring product adoption and seeking post-launch product…

Senior Product Manager, Forward