Kaizen Executive Search, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead product development strategy and initiatives. The role involves analyzing customer feedback, facilitating market research, and collaborating with various teams to ensure successful product launches and development efforts.
Responsibilities:
- Obtain and analyze feedback-voice of the customer-from key opinion leaders (KOLs), current and future customers, third party market research, and internal customers/partners to guide product development strategy and initiatives
- Facilitate the design, collection and analysis of market research to identify customer needs and market requirements
- Define product concepts and support creation of requirements
- Champion new product development efforts across multiple internal and external groups and ensure all needs are addressed (e.g., design elements, product claims, field education, operations planning, etc.)
- Author User Needs, Stakeholder requirements, and Product Marketing Requirements documents to initiate and guide product development projects
- Serve as product management representative on product core teams and drive voice of the customer throughout the product development process; develop recommendations for technical product direction
- Support the identification, prioritization and development of new product opportunities and quantify the business impact, in order to facilitate the organization’s product pipeline
- Collaborate with marketing to develop and execute successful new product launches
- Develop product pricing and positioning strategies that support execution of product launches which include: training, initial market segmentation, positioning and messaging content
Requirements:
- Experience defining data and connectivity solutions
- Experience with products providing physiological algorithms
- Well versed in the dynamics of medical device markets
- Ability to lead and collaborate across business units, functions
- Knows how a product is adopted in a health care environment
- Travel required (30-50%)
- BA/BS required
- Minimum of 7 years of successful product management or related experience
- Masters degree preferred
- 10 years plus preferred
- ICU experience strongly preferred