Job Description

Position Overview

As a Lead Product Manager for the Innovation Group, you will define and execute the product strategy for key innovation platforms and applications. You’ll report directly to the VP of Innovation & Technology, and collaborate daily with engineering, design, and business stakeholders to translate big-picture goals into actionable roadmaps, ensuring timely delivery of high-impact solutions. Your role is to validate ideas through research and experimentation, prioritize features based on data and customer insights, and drive successful launches that advance our innovation objectives within the broader corporate strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Vision & Strategy – Develop & refine a multi-year product vision that aligns with corporate strategy and market opportunity.
• Roadmap & Execution – Translate vision into a prioritized, detail‑rich product roadmap; work with engineering, design, and business to move it from concept to launch.
• Stakeholder Leadership – Partner with business unit leaders, customer success, marketing, sales, and engineering to surface needs, negotiate trade‑offs, and secure buy‑in.
• Metrics & Outcomes – Define KPIs, success metrics in line with broader objectives defined for the Innovation Group, and build dashboards for continuous measurement.
• Agile Enablement – Champion agile practices (sprints, retrospectives, backlog refinement) and coach cross‑functional teams.
• Product Discovery & Validation – Lead user research in partnership with design; prototype tests, and run data‑driven experiments to validate hypotheses before building.
• Team Mentorship – Mentor less senior PMs, foster a culture of growth, experimentation, and accountability.
• Innovation Culture – Build and grow the innovation organization: help to onboard and grow the team, set processes, and create a “fail fast, learn fast” mindset.

Desired First Year Outcomes

• Deliver Initial Product Launches: Drive at least one major innovation platform from concept through MVP and into initial market launch, ensuring alignment with broader Innovation Group objectives.
• Establish Product Discovery & Validation Framework: Implement a structured process for user research, hypothesis testing, and rapid prototyping to accelerate innovation cycles and reduce risk.
• Advance AI Integration Strategy: Deliver clear implementation strategy for at least two high-impact AI use cases that enhance product workflows or customer experiences, demonstrating measurable value.
• Build Metrics & Reporting Infrastructure: Define KPIs and create dashboards for innovation projects to enable leadership visibility and data-driven decision-making.
• Foster Innovation Culture & Team Growth: Onboard and mentor junior PMs, embed agile practices, and cultivate a “fail fast, learn fast” mindset across the team.
• Achieve Cross-Functional Alignment for Launch Readiness: Secure stakeholder buy-in for prioritized roadmap items and deliver at least two successful product launches or major feature releases within the first year.

Ideal Experience

• 10+ years of product management in fast‑moving tech or innovation orgs; 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record of launching successful products
• Experience building and scaling an innovation or product organization (start‑up, enterprise, or incubator).
• Deep understanding of agile development, product discovery, and data‑driven decision‑making.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.
• AI Expertise: Strong understanding of classical AI (predictive analytics, optimization) and generative AI (LLMs, multimodal models).
• Ability to identify opportunities for AI integration in workflows and customer experiences.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering and AI API integration.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, make tough trade‑offs, and drive consensus.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with UX research, A/B testing, analytics tools
• Background in AV/streaming, live‑event tech, or infrastructure automation
• Experience with remote / distributed teams
• Agile/SAFe certifications
• Experience in healthcare or regulated industries
• Familiarity with ethical AI and compliance frameworks

Other Personal Characteristics

As a founding team member of the Innovation Group, the following will be considered:

• Ability to think outside the box to deliver creative solutions in constrained environments
• Someone who can “think in product & systems” and translate that into a roadmap that the engineering team can build.
• A servant‑leader who mentors, removes blockers, and keeps the product organization healthy and scalable.
• A data‑driven decision maker who uses metrics, experiments, and customer voice to iterate.
• A willingness to establish a psychologically safe and team culture

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package with performance-based incentives.
• Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, flexible vacation, and 401k with matching.
• Professional development opportunities in a rapidly growing healthcare technology company.
• Flexible work arrangements with preference for proximity to Austin or hybrid in CT/ET time zones.
• Opportunity to build innovative solutions that improve patient outcomes and healthcare training.

Position Details – Lead Product Manager, Innovation Group

• Location: Austin / Hybrid
• Travel: As required for business needs
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred, or equivalent professional experience. Advanced degree (MBA or similar) is a plus but not required.
• Experience: 10+ years of total experience preferred, 5+ years in an product team leadership role

About the Company

Elevate Healthcare was recently added to the Madison Medical portfolio of companies in February of 2024 with the acquisition from CAE corporation. As a 30 year old company, Elevate designs, manufactures, and services healthcare simulation products used to educate nurses, doctors and medical professionals on the proper techniques and procedures to have confidence and competence in the life saving moments that matter. Currently, society is facing a significant shortage of nurses and doctors needed to treat an aging world population. Medical errors represent the third largest cause of death in the United States. Elevate plays a critical part in reducing medical errors and expanding the workforce for healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes. Elevate serves all of the major nursing and medical programs at hospitals, universities, nursing schools, medical schools, medical associations and medical technology manufacturers worldwide.

Madison Industries Holdings LLC is one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world. Driven by a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive, the company is uniquely designed to foster, empower, and build exceptional companies and teams that are essential to collective health and well- being.

Founded 25 years ago by Larry Gies, Madison Industries has morphed from a "buy, build, sell" model prevalent among venture capital and private equity firms, into partnerships that mutually benefit customers, employees and the business owners who join it. Madison’s goal is to build something truly remarkable that will long outlast all of us. Through Madison’s strategy, the company has grown into an international manufacturing powerhouse. It has built market leaders in the filtration, medical, safety, healthcare simulation, industrial equipment, process improvement, instruments & controls, plastics, energy, and indoor air quality industries with combined enterprise value of nearly $20 billion. Its footprint spans across Europe, Asia and the Americas operating over 300 facilities in 40+ countries, with over 18,000 engaged employees.

Madison/Elevate Culture

Elevate is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive by inspiring positive outcomes in healthcare. We are committed to an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and a strong bias for action. The team at Elevate is committed to building something truly remarkable that long outlasts us while coaching others to reach their highest potential.

Elevate is part of the Madison Medical platform which has built its reputation by fostering three key attributes: Trust, Bias for Action, Entrepreneurial.

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