Associate Product Manager, Alignment & Surgical Planning at Alphatec Spine, Carlsbad, United States

Support the development, commercialization, and lifecycle management of EOS Insight and related data-driven capabilities, contributing to requirements definition, surgeon feedback integration, product messaging, launches, and customer engagement to ensure products align with company goals and market needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage assigned portions of the EOS Insight portfolio from concept through launch, updates, and obsolescence planning.
• Assist in defining product requirements, roadmap priorities, and feature sequencing.
• Translate business objectives, surgeon insights, clinical workflows, data needs, and technical constraints into product requirements and user stories.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, UX/UI, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, and other cross-functional teams.
• Gather and synthesize feedback from surgeons, sales, account managers, and stakeholders to inform product updates.
• Support the definition and integration of AI-powered insights, analytics, predictive models, and decision-support tools.
• Ensure AI-enabled features are clinically meaningful, explainable, and aligned with surgeon workflows.
• Collaborate with Clinical Account Managers and Regional Sales Managers to drive sales, utilization, and engagement.
• Assist in developing sales collateral, training content, case studies, product demos, and educational resources.
• Participate in product launches, sales training, customer onboarding, trade shows, seminars, conferences, and surgeon education events.
• Define and monitor product success metrics including adoption, utilization, customer satisfaction, workflow efficiency, data quality, and commercial performance.
• Develop professional knowledge through training, publications, networking, and conference participation.
• Travel 15-40% as required.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to translate customer needs into product requirements.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams including engineering, marketing, sales, clinical, regulatory, quality, and research.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to inform decisions.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Superior interpersonal skills.
• Experience collaborating with software development teams.
• Ability to organize and prioritize workflow to meet established timeframes.
• Ability to multi-task within a cross-functional team.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to represent the company professionally at business functions.
• Ability to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced, team environment.
• Ability to prepare sales forecasts.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of related experience, preferably with technology products and/or in the orthopedic/spine device industry.
• Preferred: Experience in spine, orthopedics, medical imaging, surgical planning, navigation, robotics, digital surgery, or AI-enabled healthcare software.
• Preferred: Experience working with web or mobile software platforms.
• Preferred: Familiarity with software as a medical device, regulated product development, design controls, usability engineering, or medical device quality systems.
• Preferred: Experience developing product requirements, user stories, launch plans, sales collateral, training materials, or product positioning.

Benefits And Growth

• $75,000-$80,000 Full-Time Annual Salary