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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.
• Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Join us at Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) in our mission to help individuals with diabetes lead active, fulfilling lives. We're focused on helping people manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions.

The Senior Product Manager will lead product strategy, roadmap definition, and lifecycle execution for hardware and system components within Abbott Diabetes Care's CGM ecosystem. This role will translate customer, clinical, business, and technical needs into clear product requirements, partner cross-functionally across product development and commercialization teams, and guide decisions that advance the product experience from concept through commercialization in a regulated medical device environment.

This is an onsite opportunity based out of Alameda, CA.

What You'll Work On

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management for hardware and system components within an Abbott Diabetes Care CGM ecosystem, balancing user needs, technical feasibility, quality, manufacturability, and business impact.
• Translate patient, caregiver, health care professional, commercial, and business needs into clear product requirements and priorities for hardware, sensor, reader, applicator, accessories, connectivity, and system-level experiences.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with hardware engineering, systems engineering, sensor technology, embedded software/firmware, mobile app, UX/human factors, clinical, regulatory, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, marketing, sales, and customer support teams.
• Apply strong hardware and medical device product 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 improve 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.
• Partner with marketing, training, field, and support teams to prepare positioning, launch readiness, sales enablement, customer-facing communications, and lifecycle updates for hardware and system components.
• Communicate product vision, technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders, bringing a hardware-grounded medical device perspective to CGM ecosystem strategy and execution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (Engineering preferred)
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• Healthcare or medical device industry experience

The base pay for this position is

$130,700.00 - $261,300.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:Product ManagementDIVISION:ADC Diabetes CareLOCATION:United States > Alameda : 2601 Harbor Bay ParkwayADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:WORK SHIFT:StandardTRAVEL:NoMEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:NoSIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf