Director, Product Manager Type 2 (Hybrid: Acton, MA)

Job Summary SeInsulet is a mission-driven company focused on creating innovative medical solutions that enhance the lives of people with diabetes and their supporters. The Director of Product Management plays a crucial role in this effort by advocating for the product's purpose, defining priorities, and collaborating with technical teams to meet user needs. Insulet employs cross-functional teams, integrating disciplines like engineering, UX, software, and clinical expertise to ensure successful product development. This role involves accountability for product success, including user experience, market performance, and reliability, while also sharing responsibilities for timely delivery and budget management. By working closely with product marketing, system architects, and program management, the Director helps shape the vision and strategy for Insulet’s product lines, contributing to the company's commitment to improving health outcomes through connected consumer medical solutions.e email

 Insulet started in 2000 with an idea and a mission to enable our customers to enjoy simplicity, freedom, and healthier lives through the use of our Omnipod® product platform. In the last two decades we have improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients by using innovative technology that is wearable, waterproof, and lifestyle accommodating. We are looking for highly motivated, performance-driven individuals to be a part of our expanding team. We do this by hiring amazing people guided by shared values who exceed customer expectations. Our continued success depends on it! Position Overview Insulet is a mission driven company that develops extraordinary, innovative products that directly impact people’s lives and health. We are developing connected consumer medical solutions with a combination of hardware, software, mobile, cloud, and wearables for people living with diabetes and the people that support them. Our mission is to both simplify people’s lives while improving their outcomes. As the product leader, the Director of Product Management must evangelize the product and bring the ‘Why’ to the teams, define and prioritize the ‘What’, and work closely with the technical leadership to ensure the ‘How’ delivers on the user needs. To deliver outstanding products, Insulet approaches development with cross functional product teams with resources from many disciplines (e.g., mechanical engineering, embedded electronics, UX and human factors, software engineering, cloud architecture, clinical, regulatory, and commercial) contributing to each program. In this role you are primarily accountable for the success of the product that is released (user experience, commercial success, field reliability), and have shared responsibility with Program Management for timeliness to market and program budget. Working closely with a peer in product marketing, a system architect, and program management, you achieve these objectives by ensuring that the product vision, system design, and regulatory and clinical strategies, are optimized to efficiently deliver an outstanding product to Insulet’s users. You will also help to create the vision and strategy for the different product lines. If you are driven, intellectually curious, technical, and are looking for the opportunity to apply your product expertise to an incredible mission working with great teams and innovative technology then come join the Insulet team. Responsibilities Steward of the product line, ensuring vision and intent across releases, ensuring simplicity, usability, and HCP confidence are preserved as the product is delivered on time & scales. Lead MVP shaping within an established roadmap, making informed tradeoffs across scope, risk, usability, and delivery timing. Coach Principle through Associate Product Managers through ambiguity and complexity, helping teams balance near‑term delivery with long‑term coherence across multiple release versions and time horizons. Ensure product managers deliver to intent into clear product definitions, requirements, and acceptance criteria across PM‑owned domains. Collaborate with Marketing to ensure that the product vision is clear and compelling, and that the planned product will deliver commercial success by delivering meaningful innovation and value to users Partner with peers in PMO, Marketing, and Development as a key member of leadership team for the solution/product line Guide product managers and product owners to ensure that the product vision is well-understood by all members of the product team and that each feature delivers its part of a cohesive vision Evangelize the product to the product team to continually guide teams towards the vision Owns a platform or solution including the roadmap of releases, guiding other product managers on the specific releases. Align the product metrics to the organizational KPIs Develop analytics methods and collect user insights to shape the vision and strategy Bring strategic thinking to define solutions and see the product through to delivery Partner with Systems Architect to align the architectural roadmap with the feature roadmap Work with strategic technical partners in our technology organization Provide leadership and enthusiasm to the program team to help them complete their work successfully Manage portfolio level scope by assessing tradeoffs and scope increase or scope reduction requests Enhance processes for product management around discovery and delivery Define and manage metrics for product management With a peer in Program Management, ensure product is delivered on time and in-budget Works in an Agile environment and is the owner of the solution backlog. Ensures the work is ready and understood by the development teams Participates and helps drive user experience research Mentor other Product Managers Requirements Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent. MBA preferred Minimum of 12 years of experience in the field with 10 years of software development experience and/or equivalent combination of education and experience Minimum of 7 years’ experience as a product manager Proven experience overseeing all elements of the medical device product development lifecycle, with multiple releases of experience. Class II+ Medical device experience and knowledge to approve design history file elements & defend in audits as responsible for product Insulet Corporation (NASDAQ: PODD) is an innovative medical device company dedicated to simplifying life for people with diabetes and other conditions through its Omnipod product platform. The Omnipod® Insulin Management System provides a unique alternative to traditional insulin delivery methods. With its simple, wearable design, the disposable and waterproof Pod provides up to three days of non-stop insulin delivery, without the need to see or handle a needle. Insulet’s latest innovation, the Omnipod® 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System, is a tubeless automated insulin delivery system, integrated with a continuous glucose monitor to manage blood sugar with no multiple daily injections, zero finger sticks, and is fully controlled by a compatible personal smartphone. Insulet also leverages the unique design of its Pod by tailoring its Omnipod technology platform for the delivery of non-insulin subcutaneous drugs across other therapeutic areas. Studies have demonstrated the clinical and lifestyle advantages of insulin pump therapy over multiple daily insulin injections (MDI). However, many people still choose MDI therapy largely due to the complexity, cost, and inconvenience of convent