Product Manager - Medical Imaging

About Us

Synaptive Medical is a Canadian medical device company, based in downtown Toronto, focused on supporting healthcare professionals and systems in patient diagnosis and treatment. Synaptive’s suite of products include MRI, surgical planning, navigation, and robotic visualization – all of which can be seamlessly combined or used independently in the operating room. The company has a number of opportunities for innovative people to join the team and share in the development of technologies to solve surgical and imaging challenges in patient care.

The Opportunity
We have a unique opportunity for a Medical Imaging Product Manager to develop the commercial strategies for our MRI technology. Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management this is a great opportunity to exercise your breadth of product management experience and knowledge to help bring the latest medical imaging technologies to market. You will be responsible for leading, managing, and executing all upstream and downstream marketing, as well as defining the product roadmap in alignment with the overall business objectives.

The Product Manager will be a primary contributor to product definition and will be responsible for identifying and articulating new opportunities in the marketplace. This endeavour will require strong research and analytical skills, a deep understanding of customer needs, and an ability to represent the customer as a stakeholder in detailed design team meetings. The Product Manager will be a domain expert, capable of holding deep technical discussions with key customer constituents including but not limited to the C-Suite, IT, Operations, Facilities, Physicians, and Researchers within a hospital. As the expert for their product, this individual will spend time in the field developing key relationships while supporting the Sales and Clinical Applications teams with product positioning, sales, and installation. The Product Manager will also be involved in downstream marketing activities in addition to the upstream responsibilities, including the development of marketing materials, supporting tradeshows, providing product demonstrations, and positioning strategy and training.

Finally, you will have the opportunity to see the outputs of your work installed in hospitals and impact the lives of patients around the world.

What You’ll Do
Product Definition
• Addressable market definition, analysis and positioning
• Identification of market opportunities and regulatory constraints
• Establish relationships with luminaries
• Establish familiarity with and access to competitive products
• Establish Voice of Customer funnel to drive future product iteration
• Contribute to design reviews and showcases on product development teams
• Define and drive the short and long-term product roadmap in line with the corporate strategy

Product Advocacy
• Own the product launch and go-to-market strategy
• Support sales team in conferences, trade shows and developing new sites
• Support engineering in customer VIP demonstrations and discussions
• Support Clinical and Field Support teams during product implementation
• Contribute to marketing and promotional plans and control product related activities to that plan
• Train internal and external sales teams on product detail and messaging
• Support of initial implementation of products in the field at luminary accounts

Product Marketing
• Generate messaging and content for downstream product marketing activities, including brochures, training materials, whitepapers, and others

What You’ll Need
• 5 years of experience with a focus on medical imaging and radiological planning technologies
• Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering or related fields
• Familiarity with advanced imaging techniques in neuroscience
• Knowledge of competitive landscape in surgical planning

It’d Be Amazing If You Had
• Knowledge of Global Healthcare Economics; Reimbursement
• Knowledge of Global Medical Imaging Regulatory landscape
• Understanding of integrated Health Networks
• Experience working with capital Equipment Sales Environment

About You
• Extremely detail oriented
• Drives for consistency
• Takes personal pride in high standard of outputs
• Motivated to work with other departments (Engineering, Sales, Manufacturing, Regulatory, etc.)
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated and self-managing
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

COVID-19 Considerations

Synaptive has a special duty to take a leadership role in protecting the health and wellbeing of its employees and the public. The COVID-19 vaccines are an important public health measure for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace and society. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be asked to provide proof of vaccination or a reason protected by legislation why they cannot be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Diversity & Inclusivity

Synaptive is based out of one of the most diverse countries in the world. This includes differences related to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender expression and presentation, sexual orientation, religion, age, ability and socioeconomic status. To us, diversity is one our strongest assets to our organization. We commit ourselves to promoting the recognition and appreciation of our diverse and rich culture. We believe that it is critical to our success to promote freedom of thought and opinion in a respectful environment. The decisions we make are rooted by respectfully considering each other’s thoughts and opinions and by working towards a greater common goal, saving lives.

Accommodation

Synaptive Medical is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including visible minorities, Indigenous People, and persons with disabilities. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. If as a qualified job applicant, you request accommodation, Synaptive will consult with you to provide reasonable accommodations according to your specific needs. If you wish to make a request, you will be provided an opportunity if your application is selected to proceed in our hiring process.

How to Apply

Unless otherwise stated, applications will only be considered from candidates eligible to work in Canada, or the country in which they’re applying to, without sponsorship.

If you are interested in this position and can demonstrate that you meet or exceed the requirements defined in the job description, please include #GOBRAIN in the top right corner of your resume and then complete your online application by clicking “Apply Now” and following the prompts.

The successful candidate to this role will be asked to complete background checks, which may include criminal, credit, employment and/or educational checks. All offers of employment are conditional on the receipt of satisfactory results of any applicable background check.

We would like to thank everyone who submits an application. Due to the volume that we receive, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.