Product Manager/Senior Product Manager, Digital Platforms

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the [Register to View] student debt program and [Register to View] education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our location in Alameda, CA has a future opportunity for an Associate Product Manager/Product Manager/Senior Product Manager on the Digital Platforms team which is responsible for software-based products and services that expand and enhance the capabilities of the FreeStyle Libre platform, the world’s #1 continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) solution. Abbott Diabetes Care is focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

*This listing is for an upcoming onsite role

Can be filled as either Associate Product Manager, Product Manager or Senior Product Manager depending on experience

What You’ll Work On

• Define and advance the digital product strategy and roadmap

• Identify and prioritize unmet user needs, and translate them into product requirements

• Collaborate with product designers to define the total user experience

• Plan and execute formative design research and usability testing

• Collaborate with software engineering to implement and test new features and/or products

• Train internal stakeholders on new features and/or products

• Collaborate with product marketing to produce promotional and/or educational content

• Provide on-market product support to Global Commercial Operations

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 4 years experience or MBA with at least 2 years of related digital experience.

• Strong presentation and communication skills, proactive and resourceful with a “can do” attitude.

• Innovative and able to think open, broadly and strategically

• Strong analytical skills able to draw conclusions from data, management information and trends

• Enjoys responding quickly and influencing people to deliver

• Sound time management skills, ensuring that work is produced to agreed deadlines and high standards

• Highly organized, focused and committed to achieving goals

• Thrives under pressure with tight deadlines on several initiatives simultaneously

• Understanding of delivering digital success in a regulated environment

• Ability to lead/manage program budgets monthly, create and manage purchase orders and scope of work documents with procurement

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