Director, Product Owner

What You Will Do

• Set a clear and ambitious product vision and communicate it effectively to the team and B+L leadership
• Champion the MVP mindset, distilling the product at every stage to what is desirable, viable, and feasible, and protecting the team from scope creep
• Own the product roadmap end to end, from discovery through delivery, making hard prioritization calls with speed and confidence, and ensuring every decision is grounded in real clinical workflows
• Build deep relationships with eye care providers, patients, and clinic staff, running structured feedback loops and translating insight into clear product priorities and a well-groomed backlog
• Own the end-to-end patient and eye care provider experience, partnering with UX and design to ensure every touchpoint is intuitive and clinically appropriate
• Lead vendor and partner evaluation, selection, and onboarding for core technology components
• Partner with the CTO on architecture, data governance, AI model decisions, and FDA cybersecurity guidance in support of a future SaMD regulatory pathway
• Drive fast iteration cycles, using design reviews and user testing to validate that what ships works for patients and staff
• Instrument the product from day one, define the KPIs that matter to clinics, and translate clinical and commercial data into clear, actionable recommendations for B+L leadership
• Develop an informed perspective on reimbursement and payer strategy, including the CPT code landscape and value-based care models
• Help define and shape how the digital health platform scales across B+L's surgical, pharmaceutical, vision care, and consumer businesses over time
• Hire and build a product team as the organization scales from pilot to platform

What We Are Looking For

• 8+ years of product management experience, including at least one role where you owned a full product from zero to launch; background in clinical, regulated, or complex healthcare-adjacent environments strongly preferred
• Experience with AI-powered or conversational patient-facing digital health products
• Track record of building with and for clinicians — surgeons, physicians, or clinical staff — not just for them
• Strong commercial instinct: you think about ROI and adoption as much as you think about features
• Experience operating in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment — startup, growth-stage, or independent unit inside a larger company
• Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of making confident decisions with incomplete information
• Sufficient technical fluency to evaluate architecture tradeoffs, work productively with engineering teams, and make informed decisions on AI and data infrastructure
• Background in ophthalmology, surgical specialty software, or ophthalmic devices
• Familiarity with FDA regulatory pathways for Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) or 510(k)
• Experience with HIPAA compliance, BAA frameworks, and healthcare data governance
• Prior experience at a company in the digital health or medtech space