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Advanced Product Development Lead

Advanced Product Development Lead

IntuitiveSunnyvale, CA, US
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Advanced Product Development Lead

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission : we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints. As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible. Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves. Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential. Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position :

The Future Forward team is responsible for creating new products and technologies for Intuitive.

The Head of Advanced Product Development, Future Forward is responsible for leading the strategic planning, oversight, and execution of an advanced product development team within Future Forward at Intuitive. This is an exciting opportunity to supervise a technical team focused on developing new solutions to address significant unmet clinical needs.

Critical to the success of this role is experience leading cross functional teams to successfully develop market definition, clinical specification, and engineering development for new medical products, from inception to formal program launch.

The Head of Advanced Product Development, Future Forward will report to the Executive Vice President, Future Forward.

Essential Job Duties :

  • Manage the design and development of a next generation product for Future Forward
  • Develop novel solutions that are deeply informed by unmet customer needs, advanced technology development and Intuitive's core technology
  • Develop and manage to the program critical path and budget, anticipating overruns and shortfalls, project / program cost tracking, and other program management administrative experience
  • Build and inspire a highly motivated team by attracting, hiring and developing top talent
  • Assess employee performance, provide coaching, and create opportunities for career growth
  • Maintain current awareness of industry developments and competitor activity in medical fields relevant to the team portfolio and report out to executives
  • Communicate effectively with staff, company executives, clinicians, product teams, process development, KOLs, and all operations functions
  • Build relationships across the company and focusing particularly with those that are close partners with product development

Qualifications

Core Competencies and Skill Requirements :

  • Minimum Bachelor's / Master's degree in an engineering or scientific discipline
  • 10+ years of experience in senior level product development positions in the medical device / healthcare industry and successful management in a high growth environment
  • Ability to formulate and communicate a long-term vision based on a thorough understanding of unmet customer needs, medical environment trends, technology trends, and opportunities
  • Proven leadership and team-building skills, with the ability to recruit, inspire and develop a diverse group of technical professionals
  • Effective program management, planning, budgeting, goal setting, decision making, negotiating and change management skills
  • Supervise by example, influence and work well in a cross functional team environment with ability to be a hands-on technical manager as needed
  • Responsibilities include managing to the department budget, anticipating overruns and shortfalls, project / program cost tracking and other technical management administrative experience
  • Excellent communication (written, verbal), presentation and documentation skills in English
  • Experience with Intellectual Property strategy, patent creation and application process a plus
  • 20% travel required / some International
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