Product Manager, Endoscopes

Position: Staff Product Manager, Endoscopes
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 at Intuitive. As 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.

We're 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.

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
As a Staff Product Manager on the da Vinci® Multiport Vision team, you will be a key
development and design-stage stakeholder across the robotic endoscope portfolio, with
responsibility spanning new product development (NPD) and sustaining initiatives. You will own
and shape the long-term strategy for Multiport endoscope products and partner with cross
- functional teams to deliver compelling visualization solutions for minimally invasive surgery.
You will work with cross-functional partners to identify unmet user needs; define and guide
products through the design and development process; shape and guide the roadmap; and
partner with downstream teams for commercialization, evidence, and messaging. Your scope
spans the full robotic endoscope lifecycle - from early concept and feasibility through launch,
lifecycle management, and post-market sustaining engineering. Your efforts will not be limited to
a single product but include broader ownership across the endoscope portfolio and adjacent
visualization initiatives.
This is an individual contributor role and will be part of the Multiport Product Management team,
reporting to the Group Product Manager of Multiport Vision.

Essential Job Duties

Develop deep expertise in robotic endoscope workflows and surgical visualization, including
how surgeons rely on endoscope optical performance, illumination, and image quality during
minimally invasive procedures across general surgery, urology, gynecology, thoracic, and
other specialties. Monitor clinical literature, attend medical society meetings, engage with
physician key opinion leaders (KOLs), and observe live robotic cases - domestically and
internationally.
Capture, refine, and validate user needs related to endoscopic imaging performance
- resolution, sensitivity, contrast, depth of field, color accuracy, illumination uniformity,
ergonomics, sterility/reprocessing, and reliability - and translate these into clear design
requirements for engineering.
Partner closely with engineering teams across endoscopic optics, illumination (LEDs/lasers,
light path design), image sensors and imaging pipelines, system-level image quality, and
mechanical/optical reliability. Provide guidance that balances user needs, clinical value,
technical feasibility, and system constraints.
Own and manage the Multiport robotic endoscope roadmap across new product
development (NPD) and sustaining, balancing platform needs, advanced imaging
opportunities, reliability and quality improvements, cost reduction, and lifecycle
management. Develop business cases that synthesize clinical value, technical feasibility,
and competitive landscape.
Lead sustaining product strategy for the in-market endoscope portfolio, including failure
- mode analysis, field-action prioritization, design improvements, supplier transitions, and
obsolescence management. Partner with quality, reliability, manufacturing, and service
teams to drive measurable improvements in field performance, customer satisfaction, and
cost of poor quality.
Drive new product development for next-generation Multiport endoscopes from early
concept through launch - leading user research, requirements definition, design reviews,
design verification and validation planning, and phase-gate progression in a regulated
medical device environment.

Conduct qualitative and quantitative research (VOC/VOE, segmentation, conjoint,
ethnography) to inform endoscope strategy. Use structured insights to drive decisions on
new imaging capabilities, performance thresholds, and portfolio architecture.
Establish design requirements, prioritize design efforts, navigate tradeoffs, and document
and communicate design decisions. Be a credible technical partner who works deeply with
optical, mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering.
Develop downstream claims and clinical evidence strategies to substantiate that upstream
needs are being met and to support competitive differentiation of the Multiport endoscope
portfolio.
Collaboratively develop global…