Dexcom

About Dexcom

Founded in 1999, Dexcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: DXCM), develops and markets Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems for ambulatory use by people with diabetes and by healthcare providers for the treatment of people with diabetes. The company is the leader in transforming diabetes care and management by providing CGM technology to help patients and healthcare professionals better manage diabetes. Since the company’s inception, Dexcom has focused on better outcomes for patients, caregivers, and clinicians by delivering solutions that are best in class - while empowering the community to take control of diabetes. Dexcom reported full-year 2022 revenues of $2.9B, a growth of 18% over 2021. Headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company employs over 8,000 people worldwide.

The VP Product Management position is responsible for maximizing and accelerating commercial and clinical value creation of Dexcom G Series and D Series product lines. Additionally, this key position is responsible for close collaboration with Dexcom Research & Development, Product & Channel Marketing and Global Commercial Leadership to ensure continuous innovation, as well as category leadership. 

The VP Product Management role is wholly accountable for the upstream marketing outcomes of their product lines worldwide, and will work in a highly collaborative way with partners across functions and geographies to inspire alignment around the product vision, strategy, roadmap, as well as track successes and failures, share lessons learned, and continuously and proactively work to accelerate product and commercial impact.

This leader understands the broad definition of “customer” as decision-makers who influence choice for Dexcom products and takes responsibility for setting the definition of competitive advantage across customer segments, channels, and geographies. They also have a deep understanding of relevant market space, products and services, competitive offerings, and relevant healthcare industry trends, and are the internal champion for the Dexcom G and D Series product lines. 

Where you come in:

• You will lead the commercial product development process, from ideation through regulatory filing, for the Dexcom portfolio of consumer-focused products.
• You are responsible for leading all components of Commercial Product Development (“upstream marketing”) for Consumer portfolio.
• You partner with the Product & Channel Marketing lead, and with deep marketplace insights, establish long-term and short-term strategic product development plans to deliver on Dexcom commercial objectives, including sales and market share commitments across HCP, End-User, Payer/Health Plans, and Distributor customers.
• You partner with R&D and Marketing in the development of product requirements, priorities, and plans to achieve commercial objectives; represent the worldwide and cross-channel “voice of the customer” and commercial point of view.
• You synthesize the insights and inputs across functions and geographies to deliver timely, data-driven, value-creating product and portfolio recommendations.
• You align the organization leadership on product vision, strategy, and roadmap, both short- and long-range, to support company objectives.
• You partner closely with Market Research and Market Analytics functions to analyze results and drivers and to continuously understand technological, demographic, competitive, health economic, and other macro factors impacting market opportunities and risks for this product line. 
• You determine factors/attributes that drive customer decisions, and identify opportunities for product differentiation on these most important factors. Clarify the unequivocal promotable advantage.
• You identify the required product data and evidence generation needs to support product differentiation and promotional claims, and collaborate effectively across clinical, market access, legal, regulatory, and other functions as needed to ensure market-leading evidence generation and dissemination. 
• You work closely with Corporate Development, R&D, Product Design, Program Management, Legal, Operations, Clinical and Regulatory teams to incubate new ideas into viable business opportunities, claims, and product or service offerings.
• You lead cross-functional product development, design, and life cycle management: Partner closely with Marketing and Sales teams, and with Program Management to execute all phases of the product lifecycle, from product launch, through expansion, optimization, and eventual obsolescence.
• You demonstrate the need/level of investment to expand and optimize product lines, working closely with Market Insights/Analytics and Finance functions to demonstrate sound business cases for investment.
• You are responsible for understanding and complying with quality standards and requirements as documented.

What makes you successful:

Learning Agility and Innovation Mindset

• You demonstrate curiosity and a continuous learning mindset
• You proactively share knowledge with others for continued improvement
• You exhibit willingness to test and learn from new approaches, advancing our products and markets
• You demonstrate eagerness to understand areas beyond functional accountabilities, including the technology and science behind our products

Problem Solving and Results Orientation

• You proactively address strategic and operational challenges
• You use business judgement to make decisions based on facts and data, advancing problem-solving in uncertain times/ambiguous situations, balancing risk with value-creation opportunity
• You connect functional accountability with broader business outcomes
• You intentionality to “zoom out and zoom in” as needed: challenge broadly on big, longer-term possibilities, while being ‘hands on’ and persistent in delivering today’s business results

Collaboration, Team First Mindset, and Company-Wide Impact

• You start with a team first, global mindset to deliver superior results
• You celebrate individuals and teams for achieving significant milestones and goals
• You demonstrate the ability to “zoom in and out” to meet situational leadership demands, driving broad impact

Communication and Credibility

• You translate company and team business imperatives to specific prioritized actions and deliverables
• You create and foster a culture of empowered accountability, enabling others to deliver at their fullest potential 
• You motivate high performing teams through this exciting period of growth and transformation
• You set clear expectations and deliver on commitments

In addition, the ideal candidate should bring the following function-specific capabilities and experiences: 

• Typically 20+ years of product management experience with at least 5 years of experience in diabetes and/or medical device marketing or a product management leadership role, and 15+ years of successful leadership experience plus a Bachelor’s degree; MBA preferred. 
• Deep knowledge of business strategy, market research, marketing, product management, design, and development.
• Proven ability to lead teams and use influence management effectively with cross-functional partners and senior management.
• Strong analytical skills, and high facility to drive decision-making of future innovative technologies, even in situations of uncertainty.
• High comfort with ambiguity, and ability to lead and drive hypothesis-drive problem solving.
• Strong communication skills, high energy; executive presence.

What you’ll get:

• A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community. 
• A full and comprehensive benefits program. 
• Growth opportunities on a global scale. 
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement. 
• An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve. 

Travel Required:

• The position is based in San Diego, CA, with global responsibilities, and requires at least 25% travel, depending on candidate’s home location. Dexcom supports remote work for employees. At the same time, this pivotal leadership role must have the ability to be present in San Diego offices at least 25% of the time, and travel as needed to customer-facing and internal meetings worldwide.

Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Dexcom’s AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com. 

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com. 

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Salary:

$209,600.00 - $349,300.00