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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Manager - Upstream Software, ION - **Company:** Intuitive Surgical, Inc. - **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Franchise - **Skills:** EHealth, Medical Software, Information Technology - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/intuitive/sr-product-manager-upstream-software-ion ## About the Role * Ability to manage cross-functional projects, stakeholders, and teams; effectively resolves issues that impact multiple teams and departments, involving complex strategies and priorities. * Proven track record of leading strategic initiatives from concept through to completion. * Able to prioritize and smoothly manage multiple tasks, product lines, and product features * Relationship builder with proven ability to work across disparate parts of an organization to deliver results. * Can operate and drive results and set priorities with limited supervision. * Influences critical project trade-offs with clear communication, customer insight, and data * Self-starter with ability to take leadership in a fast-paced environment, with agility to pivot focus to meet evolving customer needs and shifting market dynamics. * Effectively communicates impact of critical requirements on commercial success and across organizational stakeholders Excellent communication and presentation skills, including experience presenting to senior management and customers. * Demonstrated interest in healthcare, hospital operations, and finance * Ability to work in surgical labs and hospital patient care areas is required * Ability to travel up to 30% Required Education and Training * A Bachelors (BS/BSE) in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field strongly preferred * 5 or more years of professional experience with at least 2 years of experience in medical, * Relevant experience in medical devices and/or engineering/technical organizations Working Conditions * Ability to travel domestically and internationally Preferred Skills and Experience * Masters degree in life science, engineering, or business discipline preferred * Experience leading development of multiple software product lines as the single-point-of- contact in a regulated environment * Experience in one or more of the following areas preferred: medical software, capital equipment, medical devices, digital health, robotics, regulated product development ## Description Product Strategy and Roadmap Development - Develop next generation software product roadmap across multiple product franchises in the Ion business units - Develop a deep knowledge of relevant clinical spaces, including monitoring and consuming clinical literature, attending medical society meetings and engaging with physician key opinion leaders Market Landscape and Voice of Customer - Understand competitive, emerging, and complementary technology, and its impact on Intuitive's endoluminal product lines - Conduct qualitative and quantitative market research. Execute customer interviews (patients, HCPs & their care team, providers and payers) and observations to develop insights and inform the product roadmap Marketing Claims: - Develop customer segmentation and marketing claims strategy for next generation product franchises - Drive cross-functional alignment on pre and post-launch product roadmap and data collection in pre-clinical and clinical settings Product Feature Development and Prioritization - Partner with product franchise leads to develop and prioritize software product investigations, features, and product requirements for next generation software - Partner with UX and Clinical to prototype and assess prototype product solutions. - Evaluate critical program requirements and potential product impact End-to-End Ownership of Software Features - Own and scope the end-to-end software experience for users across next generation product franchises and global geographies to ensure a unified, consistent, and streamlined user experience Drive desirability, feasibility, and viability assessments of next generation software product features to prioritize next generation product portfolio Business Analysis - Collect, organize, and leverage datasets to build business cases and drive business decisions for next generation software product lines - Identify high-leverage software innovations by customer desirability, business viability, and longer-term NPV methodologies New Technologies and Global Launches - Partner with engineering and business development teams to assess new technologies, potential partnerships, and prioritize the new business development software pipeline - Collaborate with regional teams to ensure that product features and NextGen portfolio align with user needs across geographies ## Related Videos - [ZEISS & Microsoft - Building the Next Generation Medical Ecosystem in the Cloud](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/424-zeiss-microsoft-building-the-next-generation-medical-ecosystem-in-the-cloud) - [Enabling intelligent logistics automation: home-grown Industrial IoT platform at Austrian Post](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2018-enabling-intelligent-logistics-automation-home-grown-industrial-iot-platform-at-austrian-post) - [Coffee with Developers - Silvio Barbieri](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/897-coffee-with-developers-silvio-barbieri) - [AI in High-Stakes Industries: Lessons Learned](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100253-ai-in-high-stakes-industries-lessons-learned) - [More efficient software for more efficient microchips](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1164-more-efficient-software-for-more-efficient-microchips) - [It's not easy being green](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/558-it-s-not-easy-being-green) ## Related Articles - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [From developer to manager – what does it take to become an engineering manager?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/42-from-developer-to-manager-what-does-it-take-to-become-an-engineering-manager) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies)