Product Manager - Clinical (Hybrid)

Product Manager – Clinical (Hybrid)

Your opportunity

By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation – which can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.

Kardium’s mission is to deliver the best treatment for atrial fibrillation. To achieve this, we have developed The Globe® Pulsed Field System – we have a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique, and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.

We have now completed our pivotal clinical study and our focus is on regulatory approvals and commercial launch. This is an exciting and significant milestone in our journey to bring this ground-breaking technology to patients.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, we want to add an exciting new leadership role to our Product Management team. As a Product Manager - Clinical, you'll drive our HD mapping and ablation system toward success by translating the product roadmap strategy into actionable tasks and working with cross-functional teams to execute those requirements. You'll also work with leadership on the product vision and roadmap development.

Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

Meaningful work you will be a part of

Your responsibilities will include:

• Be the technical expert for customer expectations relating to clinical workflows and interactions with clinical hardware, such as the catheter and introducer
• Transform the high-level vision of the product roadmap into prioritized detailed requirements
• Work closely with R&D teams to ensure they develop the optimal hardware, workflows and functionality
• Use data to inform product decisions and maximize value for customers
• Anticipate and mitigate technical risks. Suggest, support, and negotiate decision-making tradeoffs between scope, budget, and schedule. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including executives, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Clinical Engineering, Biomedical Research, Software Development, and UX, to bring new hardware, workflows and features to market
• Communicate product strategy and progress to internal stakeholders, including management and designers
• Stay current on industry trends and new technologies to bring innovative ideas to the product team and support a product-led growth strategy
• Availability to travel to meet with clients and stakeholders and attend trade shows and clinical/pre-clinical procedures, sometimes internationally

What you bring to the team

Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about developing cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work in a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. We understand that only by working together can we solve what was thought unsolvable.

You will be successful in this role because you possess these attributes:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering or equivalent
• 5-10+ years of relevant experience, preferably in the medical or high-technology space
• 5+ years of cath lab or OR experience with deep knowledge of industry-leading cardiac devices and therapeutic strategies is preferred
• Experience with product management or development
• Experience translating product vision to requirements and supporting feature development
• Human Factors or UX experience
• Experience leading development teams and mentoring designers is preferred
• Strong strategic and analytical skills with a focus on data-driven decision-making
• Ability to develop and implement operational procedures and processes
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral), presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to effectively present ideas and concepts, facilitating stakeholder buy-in

Compensation 

Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% RRSP contribution) that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.

As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium’s stock option plan.

• $100,000-128,000 (CAD Annually)

Your Benefits & Well-being

 The total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus a contribution to a Registered Retirement Savings plans (RRSP) to help support your financial goals.

 Comprehensive medical & dental coverage for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.

 Work-day flexibility – additionally, we provide 3 personal days per year.

 Support for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.

 Family building – we provide top up for both maternity leave & adoptive leave. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.

 Career progression and learning support.

  Professional membership support.

Life at Kardium  

What makes us a great place to work?

1. Our Purpose
2. Our People
3. Our Culture

At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we’re committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.  

We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, and Irish ERG. 

As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.  

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