About Dexcom

Founded in 1999, Dexcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: DXCM), develops and markets Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems for ambulatory use by people with diabetes and by healthcare providers for the treatment of people with diabetes. The company is the leader in transforming diabetes care and management by providing CGM technology to help patients and healthcare professionals better manage diabetes. Since the company’s inception, Dexcom has focused on better outcomes for patients, caregivers, and clinicians by delivering solutions that are best in class - while empowering the community to take control of diabetes. Dexcom reported full-year 2022 revenues of $2.9B, a growth of 18% over 2021. Headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company employs over 8,000 people worldwide.

Position Summary:

Dexcom is searching for a Sr. Staff Program Manager to drive Software development of high-impact product development initiatives in the Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) space. A successful candidate has a proven ability to lead a diverse, cross functional, team through the various product development stages in the Med Tech, IVD or related field and has honed an ability to influence, and resolve competing priorities at various levels in a growing business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Project & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Leads cross functional teams through a medical device product development lifecycle (from concept to FDA filing and subsequent commercialization).
• Leads the team through Phase Gate and other Go/No-Go decisions by executive leadership, ensuring that decisions are informed by a balanced and clearly articulated representation of the relevant data.
• Responsible for synthesizing the project work breakdown structures, schedules and project risk into an integrated plan.
• Manages the roles, responsibilities, goals and deliverables for core and extended team members and partner with functional leaders to ensure appropriate Core Team resources are setup for success and delivering on objectives.
• Defines, plans, and manages program resources through partnership with functional managers.
• Create and foster team dynamics for high performance

Business and Financial Acumen

• Ensures alignment of product value proposition and business objectives to the project scope and plan.
• Leads program planning process ensuring marketing and product requirements are driven by customer needs.
• Accountable for developing and managing to a project budget including capital expenditure, expenses and headcount.
• Links project goals and objectives to commercial and financial outcomes

Innovative Self Starter

• Critically thinks about the big picture and generates novel ideas for defining, implementing and bringing to market new products, technologies and services.

• Constructively challenges team and the organization on assumptions in technical designs and commercial excellence reviews.
  

Required Qualifications:

• Proven ability to lead cross functional teams through a medical device product development lifecycle. Requires a thorough understanding of all functional work streams in a phase gate process and ability to distill functional complexities into an integrated project vision and plan.

• Strong horizontal and vertical communicator. Represents self and program with an executive presence. Must possess exceptional written and oral communication skills along with effective meeting management and group facilitation abilities.

• Demonstrates a high level of business acumen integrated across finance, marketing, sales, service, R&D and manufacturing.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully influence people and teams at all levels without direct authority.
• Demonstrated analytical, decision making, prioritization and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage conflicts and ambiguity to drive clarity and deliver results.
  

Strongly Preferred:

• Relevant experience in new product development within the regulated medical industry.
• Experience in Med Tech, IVD or Pharmaceutical industries developing electromechanical devices and software systems is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency with typical Project management and collaboration tools preferred (eg MS Project, Confluence/Jira, etc.)

Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

An Equal Opportunity Employer . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Dexcom’s AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com .

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com .

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