Senior Product Manager, Hardware

Abbott Diabetes Care seeks a Senior Product Manager for hardware and system components in its CGM ecosystem, onsite in Alameda, CA, with a salary range of USD 130,700 to 261,300 per year.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for hardware and system components within the CGM ecosystem, balancing user needs, technical feasibility, quality, manufacturability, and business impact.
• Translate inputs from patients, caregivers, health care professionals, commercial teams, and business stakeholders into clear requirements and priorities for hardware, sensors, readers, applicators, accessories, connectivity, and system experiences.
• Drive cross functional alignment with hardware engineering, systems engineering, sensor technology, embedded software/firmware, mobile app, UX and human factors, clinical, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, marketing, sales, and customer support teams.
• Apply hardware and medical device judgment to evaluate design tradeoffs related to reliability, usability, wearability, performance, durability, cost, manufacturability, serviceability, and global market needs.
• Conduct market, customer, competitive, and product performance analysis to identify opportunities that enhance CGM ecosystem experience, product quality, user confidence, and commercial performance.
• Support regulated medical device development activities, including design controls, system requirements, risk management inputs, human factors, verification and validation planning, clinical and regulatory evidence needs, and quality system expectations.
• Manage dependencies across hardware, firmware, software, manufacturing, supply, clinical, regulatory, and launch plans; anticipate risks, resolve priority conflicts, and keep teams focused on critical path decisions.
• Define and monitor success metrics for product reliability, quality signals, manufacturing readiness, customer satisfaction, adoption, support trends, and commercial performance; adapt plans based on data and stakeholder input.
• Collaborate with marketing, training, field, and support teams to shape positioning, launch readiness, sales enablement, customer communications, and lifecycle updates for hardware and system components.
• Communicate product vision, technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership, bringing a hardware grounded medical device perspective to CGM ecosystem strategy and execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; engineering background preferred
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

Benefits

• Career development within a global company offering growth opportunities
• Eligibility for free medical coverage under the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• Strong retirement savings plan with high employer contributions
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit enabling an affordable path to a bachelor’s degree
• Recognized as a great place to work across dozens of countries and named one of Fortune's most admired companies
• Acknowledged as a top employer for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

The Opportunity

Join Abbott Diabetes Care in its mission to help individuals with diabetes lead active, fulfilling lives. The role focuses on delivering accurate data through life changing products that empower better health decisions, with a commitment to effective, comfortable health management.