Product Manager, Upstream Marketing

Vicarious Surgical is hiring a Product Manager to join the upstream marketing team in Waltham, MA. In this role, you will be the “voice of the customer” on product core teams, developing a go to market strategy, and identifying future opportunities for growth. 

Vicarious Surgical is a next generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedure, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs.

This is an exciting opportunity for an upstream marketer to join Vicarious Surgical and be a key member of the team that will launch a truly transformative robotic solution to the market.

Responsibilities

• Provide marketing leadership to product development teams by clearly defining customer needs and product requirements.
• Represent the voice of the customer on cross-functional teams to prioritize business and user needs.
• Establish immediate, mid-term and long-term global product roadmap that reflects key unmet needs, prioritized business opportunities, and Vicarious Surgical’s clear right to win.
• Develop a differentiated value proposition by stakeholder, claims strategy, product labeling, product segmentation and positioning strategy to establish a strong Vicarious brand.
• Become a subject matter expert of customer needs, market dynamics, and technology trends to identify significant growth opportunities and accelerate market penetration.
• Execute market research activities to drive strategic business, platform, portfolio decisions.
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative market data to identify trends in the market and translate learnings into actionable and measurable business opportunities.
• Create a global market overview of targeted surgical applications and trends in approaches, technologies, and competitive landscape.
• Partner with cross-functional partners to optimize product development processes and tools to drive efficiency across project teams.
• Develop needed project proposals, market models, metrics (ROIs, NPVs) and market assumptions to enable strategic discussions and informed decisions.
• Support stakeholder engagements to include industry educational meetings and events, on-site meetings, and labs.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in upstream marketing, product development, strategy, engineering and/or product management.
• 5+ years (or 3+ years with advanced degree) of relevant experience in medical devices, surgical equipment, robotics or another highly regulated industry. While medical device industry experience is desirable, this may be a terrific opportunity for someone with relevant experience to make the transition.
• Desire to operate in a pre-commercial startup environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence a variety of stakeholders, including executive leadership, surgeons, and R&D engineers.

Together, we share a love for learning and we are passionate teachers.  As a company, we set ambitious goals and individually, we share in that ambition. At the office, we enjoy each other’s company during monthly socials and company celebrations.

Please note that at Vicarious Surgical, we follow COVID-19 safety protocol, which may include compliance with vaccination, testing and masking requirements.