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# Sr Product Manager - Upstream Software, ION

- **Company:** Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $215,600
- **Contract:** Franchise
- **Skills:** EHealth, Medical Software, Information Technology
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Intuitive/744000127493169-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
device product management, program management, project management, product
marketing, or a similar discipline

 * Product launch experience
 * 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