Intuitive Surgical
Senior Project Manager, Portfolio Lifecycle Operations
Intuitive Surgical is hiring a Senior Project Manager, Portfolio Lifecycle Operations in San Francisco, CA, United States. Posted October 16, 2026.
Job at a glance
- Company
- Intuitive Surgical
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Workplace
- On-site
- Sector
- Operations & Manufacturing
- Posted
- October 16, 2026
- First scanned
- October 16, 2026
About the job
Job Description
Primary Function of Position:
This individual will report to the Senior Manager of PLO (portfolio lifecycle operations) and will be focused on the fast growing and highly innovative Multi-Port business unit. This person should have a background which exhibits expertise in operational excellence, business process development and change management. The primary focus of this person’s role will be to provide project management across the entire lifecycle of Intuitive’s multi-port products; from pre-commercialization planning, to launch execution, to global obsolescence. This person will require a global mindset, will be able to quickly comprehend unique regional challenges and opportunities, and will be able to provide functional project management for multiple worldwide regions simultaneously. He or she must excel in a high-energy team environment and be capable of making sound decisions when faced with the time pressures and incomplete information typical of portfolio lifecycle management.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with core Intuitive functions (both US and International) to enable commercial readiness in accordance with the company’s Quality Management System and applicable regulations.
- Act as a catalyst to align commercial timelines, requirements, and priorities with Commercial and Executive Leadership.
- Identify, create, and collaborate in the implementation of business process improvements, enabling tools, and systems that deliver tangible value to the Portfolio Lifecycle Operations (PLO), Program Management Office (PMO) the Multi-port business unit.
- Escalate threats to commercialization projects as required to functional management and senior leadership.
- Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner
- Project manage all aspects of ISI’s Approved Product List (APL) activities and provide hyper-care for initial product imports and shipments. Functionally, work includes:
- Identifying critical path milestones and developing project plans/timelines with ISI functions, including Global Commercial leadership, Project Management Office, Customer Success, Trade Compliance, Global Logistics, Regulatory Affairs, Product Quality, and various shared service organizations.
- Leading core team forums to track milestone developments, flag risks and potential project delays and develop contingency plans, evaluate options for ensuring commercial and regional readiness, ensure proper flow of communications.
- Collaborating with SMEs to perform comprehensive regional requirements evaluation (e.g. regulatory, trade compliance, hardware compliance, import/export), then coordinating development of processes to ensure compliance to regional requirements.