Fortive

Sr. Director Product & Design

Fortive$133K — $248K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; Master’s preferred
  • 10+ years of Healthcare SaaS experience
  • 5+ years in senior leadership managing product teams
  • Proven success in delivering SaaS solutions in regulated industries
  • Expertise in agile methodologies and digital product lifecycle
  • Familiarity with product-led growth and data-driven development
  • Experience with AI and automation in product capabilities
  • Ability to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally

Responsibilities

  • Shape and execute a compelling product strategy
  • Define and manage product vision and roadmap
  • Represent customer voice through engagement and research
  • Anticipate shifts in healthcare and technology
  • Champion AI adoption in product delivery
  • Ensure user-centered design in product creation
  • Build relationships with stakeholders for product alignment
  • Translate market insights into differentiated offerings

Benefits

  • Global travel opportunities up to 30%
  • Participation in bonus and equity compensation plans
  • Career development opportunities
  • Access to continuous learning programs
  • Formation of a high-performing team culture
Full Job Description
The Sr Director, Product & Design leads the definition, strategic direction and execution of product and design initiatives across the Provation GI portfolio. This role drives innovation, user-centered design, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, compliant, and impactful solutions. This is a high impact role requiring a dynamic, results driven and customer centric leader.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Strategy & Vision
  • Shape, communicate, and execute a compelling product strategy, aligning with customer needs and company objectives
  • Define and own the product vision and multi-year roadmap, managing trade-offs and prioritization between core platform, new product development, and innovation to drive adoption, customer satisfaction, retention, and global growth
  • Represent the voice of the customer through direct engagement and research
  • Anticipate shifts in healthcare delivery, reimbursement, regulation, and technology
  • Champion use of AI in how we work and what we deliver


Design Leadership
  • Champion deep customer and user understanding to elevate design thinking and user-centered innovation
  • Ensure design and product teams create intuitive, workflow-aligned, and accessible experiences that reduce cognitive and administrative burden
  • Guide design execution across product teams
  • Establish and evolve design systems and UX standards; scale design without sacrificing quality as product lines expand.


Stakeholder Management & Relationship Building
  • Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including senior leadership and cross-functional teams, to ensure product alignment with company objectives.
  • Align product goals with broader organizational initiatives.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with external customers and partners to inform product development and ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Facilitate agile delivery and iterative development
  • Partner closely with Engineering to ensure scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
  • Support go-to-market readiness by ensuring products are compelling, demonstrable, and well-positioned.


Analytics & Market Insight
  • Translate market insights into differentiated product offerings
  • Leverage data to inform product decisions and measure impact
  • Drive continuous improvement through feedback loops


Delivery Excellence & Process Improvement:
  • Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for product success and implement mechanisms for tracking, reporting, and reacting to performance data.
  • Ensure delivery predictability while allowing flexibility for discovery and iteration.
  • Use analytics to drive continuous product improvements and optimize user experiences.
  • Drive outcomes across adoption, customer satisfaction, retention, and financial growth.


People Leadership
  • Coach, mentor, and manage performance of product managers, product owners and designers to foster individual growth and accountability, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain top talent by building strong capabilities and creating clear career development pathways/providing opportunities for continuous learning and advancement.
  • Cultivate a high-performing culture that promotes engagement, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.


Global travel up to 30%

Required Qualifications:

Education & Experience Guidelines
  • Bachelor's Degree required; Master's degree preferred
  • 10+ years relevant Healthcare SaaS experience, with 5+ years in senior leadership roles managing multi-disciplinary product teams
  • Proven success delivering SaaS solutions in healthcare or regulated industries
  • Expertise in agile methodologies and digital product lifecycle
  • Experience leading and mentoring global teams and partnering across functions and geographies
  • Familiarity with product-led growth principles and customer-centric, data-driven product development
  • Experience leveraging AI and automation to enhance product capabilities and streamline workflows
  • Ability to travel domestic & international 30% is required.


Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:
  • Knowledge of HIPAA, HL7, FHIR, and healthcare compliance standards
  • Experience with AI/ML integration in product design
  • Certification in Agile, Scrum, or Product Management frameworks


Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level:

Scaling & Aligning

Customer Obsessed: Starts with the customer's needs and make decisions with their perspective in mind.

Strategic: Uses data-driven insights to influence and shape strategies that advance organizational priorities across multiple functions.

Innovation for Impact: Inspires breakthrough solutions by nurturing ideas through experimentation and embracing diverse perspectives.

Inspiring: Communicates a compelling vision that energizes and motivates others.

Builds Extraordinary Teams: Creates a unified leadership group that drives organizational success.

Courageous: Takes decisive action and tackles tough issues head-on.

Delivers Results: Leads with high standards and urgency, driving values-based execution for quality, timely, and sustainable results.

Adaptable: Maintains rigor while continuously experimenting and learning.

Lead with FBS: Goes to Gemba - Observes real-world processes at the source and embraces FBS principles through kaizen, coaching, and leveraging expertise to solve challenges.

Bonus or Equity
This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.

Pay Range
The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 133,600.00 - 248,500.00

About Fortive

Fortive is a diversified industrial growth company comprised of Professional Instrumentation and Industrial Technologies businesses that are recognized leaders in attractive markets. With 2019 revenues of $6.3 billion, Fortive's well-known brands hold leading positions in field instrumentation, transportation, sensing, product realization, automation and specialty, and franchise distribution. Fortive is headquartered in Everett, Washington and employs a team of more than 17,000 research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, service and administrative employees in more than 50 countries around the world.
Learn more about Fortive
Size
18,000 employees
Market Cap
$22.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.6 billion
Founded
2016
5 Year Trend
-0.5%
Revenue
$6.5 billion
NASDAQ

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