Principal Digital Product Manager - Robotics

Robots already work at Mayo Clinic, cleaning our floors, moving millions of laboratory specimens, and assisting in our operating rooms. Yet this is less than one percent of what is possible. Over the next decade, robotics will advance from sensor-driven, single-purpose machines to AI-driven autonomous systems, including generalist and humanoid robots, and Mayo Clinic intends to lead across that entire continuum, from the operating room to the loading dock. The Mayo Clinic Robotics Program exists to pioneer human-centered robotics that expands access and creates an empowered, safe, more personalized, and convenient experience for patients and staff, cementing Mayo Clinic as the global leader in healthcare while freeing our people for the human work of healing. Within this program, the Principal Digital Product Manager - Robotics is accountable for ensuring Mayo pursues the right robotics opportunities for the right reasons and scales only what earns it. The opportunity space spans surgical assistance, specimen and material logistics, environmental services, pharmacy and laboratory automation, patient-facing platforms, and drones. This leader brings discipline to it: rigorous problem definition before solution work begins, evidence-based decisions about what advances, scales, or stops, and value measured in patient experience, staff time returned to care, reliability, and cost. The Principal leads the most consequential engagements personally, sets the standards other product managers work to, and mentors them. This portfolio is physical: its products are robots working among patients and staff, and success is safe, trusted, adopted operation.

Responsible for driving the vision, strategy, business requirements, roadmap, and execution across multiple assigned digital products. Advocates for the end user experience through data and research driven product discovery and development methods. Ensures alignment between Product, Business and Platform/Property priorities in context of Mayo Clinic's overall strategy and goals, while ensuring the end-user needs are met.

Oversees the entire life cycle of the assigned product, from defining and setting the vision, managing teams to hit cross-product and shared OKRs, deriving feature intention maps, and managing capacity against scope - ultimately creating a best in class user/customer experience, while on time and within budget. Sets the portfolio-wide standard for problem definition – ensuring every initiative is grounded in a clear articulation of what is being built, why it matters and how success will be measured before any solution work begins. Defines and owns cross-product OKRs across the portfolio, establishing clear targets aligned to organizational goals. Sets the standard for how OKRs are structured and measured, holding teams accountable.

Coordinates agile product methodologies across multiple product teams. Works with IT, Experience Design, Content and Digital Analytics leaders. Accountable to the success of a cross-functional team, including experts in design, engineering, marketing, and others. Recruits, hires, and mentors members of the team; establishes and standardizes product management practices, frameworks and tools across the product organization as a primary accountability alongside portfolio strategy.

Responsible for driving the product strategy, vision, design, and development execution across the portfolio. Ensures delivery of high-value products in alignment with business goals and user experience optimization. Leads high performing cross-functional teams effectively and efficiently, collaborating with business partners, customers, and other stakeholders (Engineering, UX/UI, Operations, Engagement, AI, etc.)

Leverages market and customer feedback and data to inform and guide future product and feature development. Sets discovery standards across the portfolio and leads fast-paced discovery sessions including user research, defining outcomes with baselines and opportunity areas. Leads portfolio-level prioritization and investment trade-off discussions with executive, clinical, operational, vendor and technology leadership. Advocates for end-users, and builds and improves features based on their pain points - strives to make product technology and workflows easy to use.

Proactively manages and monitors product and operational risks (regulatory, security, operational, etc.) in order to prevent and/or mitigate risks to the customer and business. Establishes deep partnerships with business stakeholders to ensure products achieve business requirements and align to other organizational strategies and priorities. Quickly build credibility and partnership with key internal partners and leaders.

Monitors and manages product schedules, scopes and budgets across the portfolio, delivering as scheduled. Manages external Mayo Clinic vendor and partnership relationships. Sets and manages product portfolio performance scorecards and shared OKRs; tracks shared KPIs across portfolio products and drives continuous improvement. Actively seeks to understand new and emerging technologies, their capabilities, pros/cons, and potential applicability to Mayo Clinic digital product needs.

This vacancy is not eligible for sponsorship/ we will not sponsor or transfer visas for this position. Also, Mayo Clinic DOES NOT participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree (business, communications, advertising, marketing, statistics, engineering, technology, health care) and 7+ yrs of digital product management experience (5 yrs with digital products and platforms); or minimum of 9 years direct digital product management with HS diploma/GED required. Prior health care experience preferred. Experience in managing complex products or a family of multiple products required. Digital product and people leadership experience (direct or indirect). Prior Digital Senior Product Management experience or equivalent role. Preference for health care experience (clinical, management, technology, other) from some Product Manager roles. Experience in design thinking methodologies.

Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships at multiple levels of the organization. Strong communicator (written & verbal) with active listening skills. Ability to facility group/team discussions. Professional and reflects Mayo Clinic values and beliefs. Strong planning and organizational skills.

Visionary, Proactive, and problem solver. Ability to effectively negotiate, strong conflict resolution skills, strong attention to detail and multitasking skills, and works well under pressure.

The preferred candidate will possess:

• Product management experience with physical or cyber-physical products such as robotics, automation, medical devices, or IoT, not solely software.

• Track record running an evidence-gated portfolio with explicit scale, pivot, and stop decisions and investment recommendations to executive audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to build and defend business cases for capital-intensive automation, including total-cost-of-ownership modeling, labor reallocation analysis, and ROI measurement.

• Experience leading vendor selection and structured technology evaluation in a multi-vendor market, including RFPs, pilots, and negotiated technical requirements.

• Experience as an accountable engagement or delivery lead in jointly staffed customer partnerships with named executive sponsors.

• Healthcare operations experience (clinical logistics, environmental services, laboratory, pharmacy, or supply chain) or comparable complex, safety-critical operational domains.

Why Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other care provider according to U.S. News & World Report. As we work together to put the needs of the patient first, we are also dedicated to our employees, investing in competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans – to take care of you and your family, now and in the future. And with continuing education and advancement opportunities at every turn, you can build a long, successful career with Mayo Clinic.

Benefits Highlights

• Medical: Multiple plan options.

• Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.

• Vision: Affordable plan with national network.

• Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.

• Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.

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Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Learn more about the "EOE is the Law". Mayo Clinic participates in E-Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.