It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

*Candidates can live anywhere in the US to be considered for this role. Ideally near a major airport hub as approximately 60% travel is anticipated for this position.*

Primary Function of Position

The Senior Market Development Manager is a market-facing commercial leader for new indications and platforms — operating across the full spectrum from product development through early commercialization. This role defines and executes early go-to-market strategy, ensures the commercial perspective informs upstream decisions, and builds the market infrastructure required for successful future Intuitive launches. 

This role is deeply integrated with engineering, product, clinical, regulatory, and corporate strategy teams in both existing business units and future forward— serving as the commercial anchor in cross-functional forums and embedding market insight into the earliest stages of indication and product development. Success requires equal fluency and trust in the external market and the internal development cycle.

The Senior Market Development Manager works directly with physicians, hospital executives, payers, and societies to identify unmet needs and shape clinical and commercial strategy. Where markets must be created rather than captured, this role is tasked with designing strategies to shift patient pathways, referral patterns, and clinical beliefs to unlock demand and accelerate commercial success.

Essential Job Duties 

• Serve as market-facing commercial lead throughout the upstream development cycle; bring commercial guidance to inform strategy and optimize launch success
• Generate deep market, customer, and clinical insights; translate into actionable product and commercial recommendations aligned with the largest unmet clinical needs
• Partner with engineering, product, clinical, and corporate strategy teams to define and execute go-to-market strategy from product development through early commercialization; serve as the commercial anchor in cross-functional forums and influence product roadmap and prioritization
• Identify and engage KOLs, society leadership, and key stakeholders to shape market entry, build pre-market advocacy, and market seeding priming early adoption
• Support clinical and economic evidence-building to enable market access, value articulation, and regulatory/ reimbursement strategy; support transfer into ROI and economic value models
• Understand existing commercial strategy and ways of working across Intuitive- find opportunities to leverage existing expertise to accelerate adoption in new domains.
• Develop market creation strategies where skillsets are not transferable— design approaches to change patient referral pathways, shift clinical beliefs and behaviors, and build demand in spaces where historic strategic success may be less transferable
• Originate and develop creative market entry strategies for new clinical spaces — write the playbook for indications where no established commercial model exists
• Synthesize complex inputs into clear strategic recommendations for senior leadership
• Develop commercialization strategy for new indications, including salesforce structure, go-to-market model, pricing, territory design, and sales incentive plan frameworks

Required Skills and Experience 

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Sales, Marketing, Strategy, or Market Development in MedTech
• Prior leadership experience required, including direct or matrixed leadership
• Demonstrated success operating in early-stage, ambiguous, or emerging market environments
• Capacity to rapidly upskill in clinical and technical knowledge base
• Experience building and executing go to market/ market creation strategy
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Experience building and leveraging KOL, society, and executive-level relationships
• Strong analytical, communication and executive presentation skills
• Ability to identify trends, distill themes, and translate customer preference to strategic priorities
• Familiarity with clinical pathways, hospital economics, capital strategy, and enterprise decision-making

Required Education and Training 

• Bachelor’s degree required

Working Conditions 

• Ability to travel up to 60%

Preferred Skills and Experience 

• Exposure to early product development, market shaping, or pre-launch commercialization working with engineers
• Experience with surgical and/or endoscopic procedures preferred
• Strategic clinical and reimbursement experience; payer fluency
• Global or international experience

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

U.S. Export Controls Disclaimer:  In accordance with the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR §743.13(b)), some roles at Intuitive Surgical may be subject to U.S. export controls for prospective employees
who are nationals from countries currently on embargo or sanctions status.

Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the government’s licensing process can take 3 to 6+ months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan (“TCP”) (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).  

For any Intuitive role subject to export controls, final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employee’s
start date, which may or may not be flexible, and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable, candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes. 

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
candidate’s qualifications, consistent with applicable law.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target base compensation ranges are listed.