Program Manager Digital BU

Company Description

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 Program Managers in Digital is responsible for delivering new products. We are looking for a person with proven track records of delivering complex, integrated, cross-functional products with super high quality standards. Digital program managers are engaged in all aspects of the product lifecycle from requirements research and architectural design to software engineering development, QA, deployment, and market rollout. You will align hardware and software engineering, clinical, and regulatory schedules, ensuring that the right products are created at the right time.

This is not a task-based job; you will be responsible for successful outcomes and delivery of Digital Programs.

The role requires an expertise of product development and manufacturing, project management, and most importantly managing through influence.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Establish clear project charter, goals, and targets and develop tasks, timelines, resources and milestones. Ensure plan is flexible to accommodate changes
• Effectively manage cross-functional development teams across Intuitive
• Oversee critical projects and delivering against commitments
• Identify the critical path, constraints, contingencies and mitigations to achieve project goals
• Escalate threats and risks as required to functional management and senior leadership
• Help the team prioritize the tasks to focus on the critical activities that drive progress and avoid being sidetracked by less important issues
• Partner with the cross-functional teams to ensure the right people are updated with the correct information at the best time on status
• Ensure cross-product dependencies are implied, planned for, and executed
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and gather data from functions to proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff recommendations
• Drive required discipline and rigor in requirements exploration, design, development, and testing through good development practices and effective use of phase gates
• Work across the organization and external partners as needed to align functional help and input for the project
• Contribute and help drive improvement Intuitive project management processes and ongoing improvements to the way we ship new products and capabilities

Qualifications

Skill/Job Requirements

• 12+ years project management experience with minimum of a four year degree or 10 years with a masters degree
• Demonstrated excellence in program management capabilities across product lifecycle, from ideation through commercialization
• Excellent grasp of the software development engineering practices, manufacturing and quality control
• Direct experience with development and commercialization of medical technology
• Expertise of Design Controls under US and International Regulations (510K)

Nice to Have Skills:

• Proven ability to think strategically, plan and align product development with business goals and market needs
• Be accountable, amenable, and outcomes-oriented
• Be a self-starter, self-motivated, self-directed, and self-directed to address obstacles and find solutions to project related issues
• Demonstrated excellence at prioritization and applying sound, data-informed judgement to weigh trade-offs
• Outstanding communicator, written and verbal
• Proven ability to drive, influence, resolve conflict and work well at all levels of an organization and in a cross functional team environment
• Solid relationship building, customer focus and facilitation skills
• Effective time management skills to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously

Additional Information

Due 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.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

EEO and AA Policy

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.

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 salary ranges are listed.

Client-provided location(s): Sunnyvale, CA

Job ID: a9a5e36d-a360-4873-ab4e-dc22dddb7428

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-02-05T18:04:57