Digital Health Senior Product Manager

As a global medtech company, we are driven by our Vision of changing the trajectory of lives for a new day and our Mission to create ingenious solutions that ignite patient turnarounds. Our relentless commitment to patients and strong legacy of innovation in healthcare are the foundation of our future. If you're looking for a new chance, a new beginning, a new trajectory, LivaNova is where your talent can truly thrive. Join our talented team members worldwide to become a pioneer of tomorrow-because at LivaNova, we don't just treat conditions - we aspire to alter the course of lives.

Location

• Remote

• Willingness to travel up to 50% as required for business needs.

As the Digital Health Senior Product Manager (Upstream) for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), you will take on a leadership role in driving upstream activities and serving as a subject matter expert on our digital products and services. You will set the vision and roadmap for your digital product category, with a major focus on patient engagement. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless transitions of the product throughout the development life cycle, ensuring clarity on value, customer work-flow and patient pathway needs, to take the product from concept to successful commercial launch. Your strategic vision and cross-functional leadership will be vital in creating digital products that support better outcomes for OSA patients.

As an essential member of our product team, you'll work closely with engineering and design - along with business stakeholders from across the company - to create new value in our products. This opportunity spans many activities from strategic to tactical and provides cross-functional leadership. You will help by identifying unmet market needs, analyzing opportunities, landscaping the market and working the key 'problems-to-be-solved' into clear digital solutions. You will also develop and implement comprehensive research to further validate customer needs, preferences, and trends to shape the future product pipeline while prioritizing and defining product features. This includes acting as the SME on customer workflow and digital product needs within the organization between different functions, most notably between engineering-oriented teams, sales and marketing, and support.

The role is accountable to work with these teams to define and align the future state of the product category including value, features, specifications, and benefits; ensuring the product aligns with market demands, customer needs, has a clear competitive advantage and a strategic pricing plan for market entry that optimally balances market access and profitability.

The Opportunity

• Roadmap: Set vision and clear direction of your digital product by developing and communicating a long-term roadmap and product pipeline, aligning with the company's strategic objectives and market opportunities.

• Product and Solution Development Ownership: Act as the driving force behind the product's vision, purpose, and roadmap. Lead cross-functional teams from the product's conception to its launch readiness, taking responsibility for the product's success.

• Feature Ideation and Integration: Collect, curate, and promote relevant ideas into features, ensuring they align with critical objectives for the product line and business. Integrate vital customer feedback and requests into the product planning and development processes.

• Product Requirements and User Experience: Define the features and requirements necessary for a complete digital solution to enter the market, utilizing strong knowledge of customer workflow, and working closely with internal stakeholders, the UI/UX and engineering teams to design elegant user experiences that address customers' pain points.

• Concept Testing: Collaborate with the UI/UX and engineering team to develop high-fidelity prototypes for user feedback. Use insights to refine and improve the product.

• Labeling and Collateral Development: Consult and suggest necessary refinements and improvements to existing labeling, collateral, and educational materials for the product as defined by gap analysis and needs.

• Approval: Review and approve or assign all documents and specifications related to current and future products to ensure compliance with regulations.

• Sales and Marketing Support: Oversee the development and delivery of materials required to support successful product launches. Ensure the creation of a structured method to assist the field sales team with product-related inquiries.

• Research: Collaborate on the design of market research instruments, execution, as input for the marketing strategic plan and conduct primary and secondary market research to help identify and validate needs.

• Landscape: Monitor environmental market conditions and trends that affect LivaNova product strategy in collaboration with the Corporate Development team. A thorough understanding of global competitive behavior, clinical and technology trends, regulatory practice, and reimbursement policy is required.

• External Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and maintain partnerships with key stakeholders, industry leaders, and third-party vendors to enhance product offerings and market positioning.

• Internal Stakeholder Engagement: establish strong working relationships across functions to garner feedback and ensure internal voices are captured and influence product needs as appropriate. You will work closely with R&D, Clinical, Downstream Marketing, Finance, Market Access and other functions to bring products to life.

• Leadership: Effectively work with the team and encourage a diverse and inclusive workplace culture in both people and thought leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required, preferably in Engineering, Business, Science or Marketing; MBA or PhD is preferred.

• 10 career experience in areas such as in:

  • Digital Product Development in Healthcare or in the software industry.

  • Proven experience in workflow transformation.

  • Neurology, neuromodulation or sleep apnea experience is a plus.

• Demonstrated experience in digital product roadmap development and management.

• Strong technical background and experience in product development for digital medical devices, diagnostics, or healthcare software.

• Proven track record of successful product launches and demonstrated ability to utilize creative thinking in developing effective strategic plans.

• Remote work experience and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in a virtual environment.

• Demonstrated strength in communication and relationship-building skills.

• Analytical decision-maker with dynamic and pragmatic problem-solving attitude.

• Proven strong leadership and communication skills, ability to develop a strategic vision.

Pay Transparency

• A reasonable estimate of the annual base salary for this position is $130,000 - $170,000 plus discretionary annual bonus. Pay ranges may vary by location.

Employee benefits include:

• Health benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Personal and Vacation Time

• Retirement & Savings Plan (401K)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Training & Education Assistance

• Bonus Referral Program

• Service Awards

• Employee Recognition Program

• Flexible Work Schedules