Technical Product Manager, Robotics
About the role
As a Technical Product Manager, Robotics at Johnson & Johnson, you will be responsible for defining and delivering the technical vision for products in the surgical robotics space. You will collaborate closely with R&D leaders, engineers, and cross-functional teams to ensure the development of innovative technical product roadmaps aligned with business goals and technological feasibility.
Responsibilities
Own the product roadmap and platform backlog, including feature intake, prioritization, grooming, and readiness, ensuring alignment with business goals, customer needs, technical strategy, and delivery capacity.
Translate roadmap priorities into executable plans by defining quarterly objectives, developing coordinated delivery plans, and maintaining backlogs that connect long-range strategy to day-to-day execution.
Drive end-to-end execution of cross-functional R&D initiatives by tracking work against commitments, managing dependencies and risks, and ensuring predictable delivery across the product development lifecycle—from concept through design transfer and release.
Lead planning, tracking, and execution cadence using Agile and program management practices (e.g., sprint planning, reviews, dependency management), leveraging these mechanisms to implement the roadmap rather than serving as a dedicated Scrum Master or standalone Program Manager.
Partner closely with engineering, product management, clinical, and functional leaders to align scope, priorities, and timelines, proactively surface tradeoffs, and resolve execution blockers.
Use data and metrics to inform decisions and course-correct, including tracking delivery health, milestone progress, and key performance indicators related to scope, schedule, quality, and risk.
Communicate clearly and proactively with leadership and partners, providing regular updates on roadmap progress, execution status, risks, and mitigation plans to support timely, informed decision-making.
Qualifications
Education: Minimum bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) or equivalent experience in engineering, or scientific field.
Required Experience and Skills: Minimum 8+ years of professional work experience in product development, minimum 4 years in engineer, program or product management, strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work effectively with teams, experience in 'Organizational Change' and 'Conflict Resolution', software and/or hardware development experience, ability to motivate and influence others without direct authority, passion for experimentation, proactive approach to problem-solving, strong critical thinking, eagerness to learn.
Preferred Experience: Launching a new product, Project Management Certification (e.g., FPX, PMP), Scrum Master Certification (e.g., CSM, PSM I, PMI-ACP), experience in the regulated industry such as healthcare, aerospace, pharmaceutical, automotive, experience with Jira, Smartsheet, Airtable, other database and work planning tools, people management experience.
Benefits
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year, Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year, Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year, Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year, Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child, Condemnation Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member, Caregiver Leave – 10 days, Volunteer Leave – 4 days, Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours.
Additional information can be found through the link below: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits.