Product Manager (Hybrid)

As a Product Manager, you will lead upstream product development and strategy from concept through launch by translating customer insights, market analysis, and unmet clinical needs into clear product direction and business justification. You will partner closely with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, and Operations to define requirements, guide the innovation pipeline, and ensure product concepts are feasible and aligned with global pathways. You will act as the voice of the customer throughout development, shaping launch critical inputs and driving innovations that deliver strong clinical and economic value while improving patient outcomes and elevating standards of care.

This role requires onsite presence at least 4 days per week, at our Irvine, CA office, to support collaboration, team engagement, and business needs.

What You Will Do

• Lead upstream product strategy from concept development through handoff, ensuring alignment with growth objectives and portfolio priorities.
• Identify unmet clinical needs through structured voice-of-customer activities, including interviews, field observations, and advisory engagements.
• Conduct market, customer, and competitive assessments to inform product positioning, differentiation, and long-term roadmap decisions.
• Develop product requirements by defining user needs, value propositions, and target product profiles that guide design and development.
• Build business cases, including market sizing, pricing strategy, revenue forecasts, and investment justification to support pipeline decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, and Operations to translate customer insights into feasible product concepts.
• Support clinical strategy by defining claims, endpoints, and evidence requirements in collaboration with Clinical Affairs and Regulatory.
• Define launch readiness inputs for downstream marketing, including segmentation, targeting, positioning, and value messaging.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum 4 years of work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree (MBA).
• 2 years of experience in upstream product management within the medical device industry or marketing functions.
• Experience supporting or participating in new product development processes.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with multiple cross functional stakeholders to deliver projects or business outcomes.
• Experience working within complex, multi‑step business processes.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

• US15 : $102,700 - $171,100 USD Annual

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.