Job DescriptionPrimary Function of the PositionProduct Managers play a critical role in Ion's success by enabling cross-functional teams to deliver differentiated, life-changing products and solutions that improve patient outcomes and customer experience. The Product Manager, Digital Applications is responsible for driving the development, launch, and lifecycle management of a digital application platform from initial investigation to commercialization and through end-of-life.
Working across multiple product franchises and geographies, and in close partnership with Cross-Functional Application Development and Commercial teams, this role serves as the central point of contact for digital applications. The Product Manager ensures that products meet customer, clinical, and business needs while balancing performance and usability considerations.
Operating with moderate independence on complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives, the Product Manager provides strategic input into portfolio and roadmap development, translates voice-of-customer and field insights into actionable product requirements, and crafts compelling, data-driven product narratives to influence tradeoff decisions and stakeholder alignment. High attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to connect big-picture strategy to disciplined execution are essential to success in this role.
This position reports to the Director of Endoluminal Product Management and acts as an advocate for digital application excellence across the Ion endoluminal portfolio.
Essential Job DutiesProduct Execution and Delivery
- Partner closely with engineering, UI/UX, privacy, and other stakeholders to translate product strategy into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans.
- Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, and release readiness activities to maintain a predictable and sustainable software delivery cadence.
- Drive requirements gathering and feature definition through collaboration with customers, field teams, clinicians, and internal stakeholders.
- Work with UX designers to define user workflows, evaluate prototypes, and ensure solutions deliver a high-quality user experience.
- Facilitate tradeoff discussions and decision-making across scope, schedule, technical complexity, and business value.
- Champion agile product development practices that enable small, incremental, and frequent software releases while maintaining quality, compliance, and customer value.
Downstream Product Management
- Own in-market product performance, identifying opportunities to improve adoption, utilization, and customer experience across clinical, hospital operational, and commercial dimensions
- Translate voice-of-customer, field insights, and post-market data into clear product requirements, prioritization recommendations, and roadmap inputs
- Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution of product performance issues in partnership with cross-functional teams
Product Analytics and Insights
- Develop success metrics and KPIs that directly tie product performance to user needs and business outcomes
- Integrate qualitative and quantitative research insights into clear product positioning and value propositions
- Analyze market, customer, competitive, financial, and operational data to inform product decisions, business and pricing recommendation
Product Rollout and Launch
- Identify and clearly articulate unmet customer needs and propose feature enhancements or next-generation solutions aligned with portfolio strategy
- Define and evaluate digital applications solutions based on critical business requirements and potential product impact
- Develop product claims, messaging, pricing inputs, and launch strategies
- Lead cross-functional project teams to ensure execution of a smooth product rollout process, including product launch, inclusive product introduction timing, business/contract system development, product phase in/phase out, and internal and external training plans
- Drive readiness and execution of product rollouts, primarily in the U.S., with support of global counterparts when applicable
- Measure and communicate post-launch performance, adoption, and customer feedback to inform continuous improvement
Roadmap Development
- Shaping strategy and execution across multiple product platforms
- Serve as a conduit between field teams and product management team, providing actionable, real-time insights
- Conduct direct customer engagement, including clinician interviews, site observations, and KOL interactions
- Monitor clinical literature, emerging technologies, and market dynamics impacting Ion endoluminal platforms
- Contribute to roadmap development by evaluating tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities and building alignment across stakeholders.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative market research to inform Ion's product roadmap development by evaluating tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities and building alignment across stakeholders.
QualificationsRequired Skills and Experience- Minimum of 8 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in medical device product management, product marketing, or product-focused commercial roles
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple complex projects and product lines with moderate risk and ambiguity
- Strong analytical skills with ability to synthesize multiple data sources into clear insights and recommendations to senior leadership
- Proven ability to communicate compelling product stories and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Proven ability to lead Agile product development and software delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release management
- Track record of effective collaboration across engineering, operations, clinical, commercial, and regulatory partners
- Self-starter with ability to take leadership in a fast-paced environment, agility to pivot focus to meet evolving customer needs and shifting market dynamics.
- Strong relationship builder with proven ability to work across disparate parts of an organization to deliver results.
- Comfortable working in hospital, procedural, and surgical lab environments
Required Education and Training- Bachelor's degree, preferably with a major in science, engineering, or business.
- Well-versed in MS Office Suite, Tableau, Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, Figma.
Working Conditions- Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
Preferred Skills and Experience- Masters degree in life science, engineering or business discipline preferred
Additional InformationDue to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidate's experience, knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
candidate's qualifications, consistent with applicable law.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target base compensation ranges are listed.
