The Sr Director, Product & Design leads the definition, strategic direction and execution of product and design initiatives across the Provation GI portfolio. This role drives innovation, user-centered design, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, compliant, and impactful solutions. This is a high impact role requiring a dynamic, results driven and customer centric leader.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Strategy & Vision
- Shape, communicate, and execute a compelling product strategy, aligning with customer needs and company objectives
- Define and own the product vision and multi-year roadmap, managing trade-offs and prioritization between core platform, new product development, and innovation to drive adoption, customer satisfaction, retention, and global growth
- Represent the voice of the customer through direct engagement and research
- Anticipate shifts in healthcare delivery, reimbursement, regulation, and technology
- Champion use of AI in how we work and what we deliver
Design Leadership
- Champion deep customer and user understanding to elevate design thinking and user-centered innovation
- Ensure design and product teams create intuitive, workflow-aligned, and accessible experiences that reduce cognitive and administrative burden
- Guide design execution across product teams
- Establish and evolve design systems and UX standards; scale design without sacrificing quality as product lines expand.
Stakeholder Management & Relationship Building
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including senior leadership and cross-functional teams, to ensure product alignment with company objectives.
- Align product goals with broader organizational initiatives.
- Establish and maintain relationships with external customers and partners to inform product development and ensure customer satisfaction.
- Facilitate agile delivery and iterative development
- Partner closely with Engineering to ensure scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
- Support go-to-market readiness by ensuring products are compelling, demonstrable, and well-positioned.
Analytics & Market Insight
- Translate market insights into differentiated product offerings
- Leverage data to inform product decisions and measure impact
- Drive continuous improvement through feedback loops
Delivery Excellence & Process Improvement:
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for product success and implement mechanisms for tracking, reporting, and reacting to performance data.
- Ensure delivery predictability while allowing flexibility for discovery and iteration.
- Use analytics to drive continuous product improvements and optimize user experiences.
- Drive outcomes across adoption, customer satisfaction, retention, and financial growth.
People Leadership
- Coach, mentor, and manage performance of product managers, product owners and designers to foster individual growth and accountability, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Recruit, develop, and retain top talent by building strong capabilities and creating clear career development pathways/providing opportunities for continuous learning and advancement.
- Cultivate a high-performing culture that promotes engagement, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.
Global travel up to 30%
Required Qualifications:
Education & Experience Guidelines
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s degree preferred
- 10+ years relevant Healthcare SaaS experience, with 5+ years in senior leadership roles managing multi-disciplinary product teams
- Proven success delivering SaaS solutions in healthcare or regulated industries
- Expertise in agile methodologies and digital product lifecycle
- Experience leading and mentoring global teams and partnering across functions and geographies
- Familiarity with product-led growth principles and customer-centric, data-driven product development
- Experience leveraging AI and automation to enhance product capabilities and streamline workflows
- Ability to travel domestic & international 30% is required.
Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:
- Knowledge of HIPAA, HL7, FHIR, and healthcare compliance standards
- Experience with AI/ML integration in product design
- Certification in Agile, Scrum, or Product Management frameworks
Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level:
Scaling & Aligning
Customer Obsessed: Starts with the customer’s needs and make decisions with their perspective in mind.
Strategic: Uses data-driven insights to influence and shape strategies that advance organizational priorities across multiple functions.
Innovation for Impact: Inspires breakthrough solutions by nurturing ideas through experimentation and embracing diverse perspectives.
Inspiring: Communicates a compelling vision that energizes and motivates others.
Builds Extraordinary Teams: Creates a unified leadership group that drives organizational success.
Courageous: Takes decisive action and tackles tough issues head-on.
Delivers Results: Leads with high standards and urgency, driving values-based execution for quality, timely, and sustainable results.
Adaptable: Maintains rigor while continuously experimenting and learning.
Lead with FBS: Goes to Gemba - Observes real-world processes at the source and embraces FBS principles through kaizen, coaching, and leveraging expertise to solve challenges.
About UsFortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About the Team
What We Do
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions. We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions. We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact. At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference. At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone. At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
