Product Lead

Olympus, one of the largest medical technology companies globally, in collaboration with BCG Digital Ventures, is building a new Digital Unit that will be tasked with innovating and building three new strategic products that will expand on its product offerings and impact across the globe.

For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling by helping detect, prevent, and treat disease, furthering scientific research, ensuring public safety, and capturing images of the world. Olympus medical solutions and products are used to provide better diagnostic outcomes for millions of patients across the globe.

The new Digital Unit will focus on experimenting, incubating and bringing to market new technological offerings and digital products that will not only enhance Olympus’s position in the market but spearhead the development of new technologies that will reconceptualize the experience for both patients and medical professionals globally.

As the Product Lead, you will be responsible for defining, designing, and influencing all the products that we build within one of the organizations' core digital clusters, leveraging both future and our existing technologies.

In your role as Product Lead, you will:

- Lead a small team of product owners and collaborate with cross-functional partners across the organization to develop strategies to deliver digital products and improve product development.
- Work closely with our customers, system vendors, and other functions which support the Digital Unit within the organization to help define key sets of product requirements and products that will help us continue to make people’s lives healthier, safer, and more fulfilling.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to help think through our go-to-market models and packaging around these products and solutions.
- In this role, you will use your excellent communication skills to present information to senior leadership and execute on the product vision with teams across the globe.
- Ensures good understanding of product cluster vision, risk, and level of effort
- Maintain stream-level epic backlog and coordinate with stakeholders to maintain accurate plans, status, risk mitigation, and related deliverables
- Align portfolio vision with epic creation and delivery to meet business goals
- Leverage support and operations teams
- Ensure delivery teams understand the customer needs. Develop and communicate program vision and roadmap
- Evolve the vision for Olympus’ digital product portfolio coherence, synthesizing it from multiple perspectives gathered across the company and from global emerging trends. Develop a durable overarching strategy for realizing this vision and help influence teams across Olympus to shape their strategies to account for it
- Lead a small team of product owners while influencing large organizations across business units and functions (product managers, software engineers, research scientists, designers, sales, marketing, etc.)
- Drive iteration of the Olympus venture initiative theory of action to improve its effectiveness and create patterns of operations that improve Olympus
- Build and maintain relationships across Olympus. Foster collaboration through leadership, creativity, presence, and patience.

A successful Product Lead for this role should have:

- 8 years of professional experience, with 2 years of experience as a manager
- Experience leading a team of product managers and/or working across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, strategy consulting, and/or business development.
- Experience working with ecosystems/platforms.
- Passionate about effecting changes, identifying and resolving tension.
- Proficient in strategic and systems thinking, with experience developing and driving strategy across business units.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Comfortable with shifting viewpoints to discern new insights from a variety of perspectives.
- Skilled at navigating and building connections within organizations.

Bonus qualifications
- Former founder or experience working in a start-up environment
- Extensive experience working in a global environment.
- Working across hardware and software, ideally in a MedTech environment.
- Experience developing and driving strategy for a product team and providing detailed product guidance.
- Understanding of how technologies can shape institutions, innovate and deliver growth.
- Passionate about using imaging, computer vision and ML/AI to transform healthcare.
- High level of comfort working with distributed teams and managing stakeholders at a distance.
- BCG Digital Ventures is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law._