Digital Product Manager
$110k - $150k+ Equity Awards + Employee Stock Purchase Program
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Minneapolis, MN, USA
In Person
ProductProduct Management
About the job
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in business, product management, marketing, engineering, computer science, design, healthcare, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 7 years of progressive experience in digital product management, software product management, product strategy, or a related role, including ownership of complex products or capabilities.
- Ability to develop product strategy and roadmaps, lead discovery, prioritize investments, and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Customer orientation and experience using research, analytics, experimentation, and feedback to inform decisions.
- Experience leading cross-functional work across design, engineering, data, business, and operational functions.
- Ability to communicate complex product decisions, evidence, and trade-offs clearly to senior leaders and delivery teams.
- Working knowledge of agile and modern product development practices, digital product analytics, and software delivery lifecycles.
- Strong judgment, systems thinking, facilitation, and influence skills in a matrixed environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop and communicate a clear product vision, strategy, value proposition, and outcome-based roadmap aligned with enterprise and digital strategy.
- Define the user and business problems to solve, target users, desired outcomes, key assumptions, and measures of success.
- Build evidence-based business cases and investment recommendations considering customer value, patient and clinician impact, commercial value, risk, cost, capacity, and lifecycle needs.
- Partner with portfolio and functional leaders to sequence investments, manage dependencies, and make transparent trade-off recommendations across products and capabilities.
- Maintain a product lifecycle perspective spanning discovery, development, launch, adoption, operations, continuous improvement, and retirement.
- Develop empathy for patients, clinicians, customers, employees, and other users through direct research, observation, feedback, analytics, and partnership with design and research teams.
- Synthesize user needs, market dynamics, competitive signals, business strategy, product performance, and regulatory considerations into opportunity areas.
- Lead cross-functional discovery to validate problems, evaluate solution options, test assumptions, and reduce risk before significant delivery investment.
- Ensure discovery and product decisions consider accessibility, privacy, security, safety, human factors, interoperability, and global market considerations as applicable.
- Translate strategy into an outcome-based roadmap with clear priorities that provide context for Product Owners and delivery teams without prescribing solutions prematurely.
- Partner with Product Owners, design, engineering, systems, architecture, and quality partners to shape initiatives, clarify intended outcomes, and support sequencing and release planning.
- Make or facilitate product-level priority and scope decisions using transparent criteria and available evidence.
- Identify and communicate product risks, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions, escalating when broader leadership action is required.
- Support release readiness and go-to-market planning with commercial, training, support, operations, clinical, and other partners.
- Define and monitor product success measures, including user outcomes, adoption, engagement, experience, quality, reliability, operational impact, and business value as appropriate.
- Use quantitative and qualitative evidence to evaluate product performance, inform roadmap changes, and identify opportunities to improve or retire capabilities.
- Establish feedback loops with users, support teams, commercial partners, and delivery teams to drive continuous learning and improvement.
- Communicate product strategy, progress, outcomes, decisions, and trade-offs to executive, business, and technical audiences.
- Create alignment across diverse stakeholders while preserving clear product decision rights and shared accountability for outcomes.
- Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Legal, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Systems Engineering to integrate applicable requirements and evidence into product plans.
- Support compliant development and release activities within the quality management system, including design controls, risk management, change control, and post-market responsibilities as applicable.
- Promote modern product practices, inclusive collaboration, ethical use of data, and a culture of learning and accountability.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with healthcare, medical devices, regulated software, software as a medical device, or another regulated industry.
- Experience with quality systems, design controls, risk management, human factors, privacy, cybersecurity, interoperability, or global digital products.
- Experience with digital platforms, mobile applications, web products, cloud services, APIs, data products, or connected devices.
- An advanced degree or relevant product management certification.
- Experience with product analytics and delivery tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
About the company
Inspire Medical Systems develops and sells a minimally invasive implantable device for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Its lead product, the Inspire system, uses implanted neurostimulation to activate the hypoglossal nerve, which moves the tongue and other airway muscles to keep the airway open during sleep. Patients control the therapy with a small handheld remote. The system targets adults with moderate to severe OSA who cannot use or benefit consistently from CPAP. Unlike non-implant options, Inspire provides a hands-free, on-demand airway support during sleep and is the first FDA-approved neurostimulation treatment for OSA. The company differentiates itself by offering a clinically approved implantable alternative to CPAP, backed by a direct US sales force and a network in Europe. Its goal is to provide an effective, durable option for patients who struggle with CPAP, expanding access to neurostimulation therapy to improve sleep quality and health outcomes.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Golden Valley, Minnesota
Founded
2007
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- August 2026 Project Horizon targets $30 million annualized investment capacity by 2027.
- September 2026 conference materials said coding clarity improved and WISeR-state billing issues eased.
- CMS proposed 2027 facility-rate increases of 12% to 15%, supporting procedure economics.
What critics are saying
- The January 2026 class action alleges Inspire V launch failures and misleading disclosures.
- Medicare coding disruption cut second-quarter revenue $40 million; management expects $120 million-$130 million full-year impact.
- If reimbursement stalls again before 2028 CPT approval, Inspire's growth thesis breaks quickly.
What makes Inspire Medical Systems unique
- Inspire remains the only FDA-approved hypoglossal nerve stimulator for moderate-to-severe OSA.
- The 2026 launch of Inspire V strengthened procedure simplicity and 3.0T MRI compatibility.
- Direct U.S. sales and distributor coverage give Inspire tight control over adoption and education.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance program
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan