(Senior) Product Manager - Microscope Navigation

Brainlab is seeking a (Senior) Product Manager to lead the development, launch, and lifecycle of their Microscope Navigation product. This role involves immersing in customer feedback, collaborating with clinical experts and cross-functional teams to deliver market-leading solutions. The manager will oversee the product's journey from ideation to launch, ensuring it meets customer needs and drives clinical impact, while also managing business opportunities, market analysis, and stakeholder communication.

Must Have

• Drive product success across all phases of the product lifecycle
• Evaluate business opportunities and prioritize product scope
• Manage article structure, pricing, and product information
• Analyze competitor activities and market requirements
• Lead and manage product launch activities
• Gather and analyze feedback from customers, sales, and service teams
• Develop and maintain a strong technical understanding of Microscope Navigation
• Communicate clearly with Sales, aligning on strategy and roadmap
• Support customer visits with presentations and product demos
• Develop marketing programs and strategic initiatives
• Orchestrate, create, review, and maintain marketing collaterals
• Minimum 3 years in Product Management
• University degree in Engineering, Business, Computer Science or related field
• Strong strategic and entrepreneurial thinking
• Confident, structured communicator
• Strong technical affinity with complex hardware-software systems
• Demonstrated ability to work in O.R. environments and interact with clinical staff
• Ability to foster effective collaboration between R&D, Sales, and Clinical teams
• Ability to translate complex contexts into clear visions and strategies
• Proven organizational skills and ability to manage complex tasks
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication and presentation skills in English and German
• Based in or willing to relocate to Munich; willingness for up to 20% travel

Good to Have

• Experience within healthcare, augmented or mixed reality visualization areas
• Experience with surgical microscopes or navigation devices

Perks & Benefits

• Mutually-supportive, international team
• Meaningful work with a lasting impact on medical technology
• 30 vacation days, plus December 24th and December 31st
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work model within Germany
• Bike leasing via cooperation partner "BikeLeasing"
• Parking garage and safe underground bike storage
• Award-winning subsidized company restaurant and in-house cafes
• Variety-rich fitness program in ultra-modern 360m2 company gym
• Regular after work, team, and company events
• Comprehensive training and continuing education opportunities

Company Description

Founded in Munich, Germany in 1989, Brainlab develops, manufactures and markets software-driven medical technology, enabling access to improved, more efficient, less-invasive patient treatments. Our key to success is our creative, talented and hard-working team, which consists of around 2400 dedicated and inspiring individuals in 25 locations worldwide. To succeed in reaching our targets, we are seeking committed colleagues who can stand behind our core values curious, authentic and useful.

Job Description

Are you a strategic and customer-focused Product Manager with a passion for advancing clinical solutions? We are seeking a skilled (Senior) Product Manager - Microscope Navigation to lead the development, launch, and lifecycle of our Microscope Navigation product.

In this role, you will immerse yourself in customer feedback, work closely with clinical experts, and align with cross-functional teams to bring market-leading solutions to life. You will be responsible for overseeing the product’s entire journey—from initial ideation and specification through launch and beyond—ensuring it meets the needs of customers and drives real clinical impact.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive product success across all phases of the product lifecycle by delivering ongoing optimizations and enhancements, and by initiating, monitoring, and conducting clinical studies for the assigned product portfolio.
• Evaluate business opportunities and prioritize product scope in alignment with clinical needs, ensuring technical feasibility and market impact, while tracking global sales performance and identifying areas for improvement.
• Take ownership of the product offering by managing article structure, pricing, and detailed product information.
• Analyze, document, and communicate competitor activities and products; compile market requirements and knock-out specs including serviceability and producibility requirements.
• Lead and manage product launch activities to ensure optimal knowledge transfer to internal stakeholders and enable meaningful customer engagement at every stage.
• Actively gather and analyze feedback from customers, sales and service teams, and market data to guide product improvements and elevate customer satisfaction.
• Develop and maintain a strong technical understanding of Microscope Navigation and internal demo setups to ensure technical credibility.
• Communicate clearly and directly with Sales, aligning on strategy and roadmap, providing guidance, and confidently maintaining prioritization based on clinical needs and technical constraints.
• Support customer visits at headquarters with presentations and in-depth product demos.
• Develop marketing programs and strategic initiatives with the Product Marketing Manager to strengthen visibility and adoption.
• Orchestrate, create, review, and maintain marketing collaterals with the Product Marketing Manager

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years in Product Management, or a similar role, ideally within healthcare, augmented or mixed reality visualization areas.
• University degree in Engineering, Business, Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong strategic and entrepreneurial thinking, with expertise in scope management, evaluation of business opportunities, prioritization, and defining specifications to balance clinical and technical requirements.
• Confident, structured communicator with the ability to defend prioritization decisions and guide stakeholders toward strategic alignment.
• Strong technical affinity with complex hardware–software systems, preferably surgical microscopes or navigation devices.
• Demonstrated ability to work in O.R. environments and interact confidently with surgeons and clinical staff.
• Ability to foster and motivate effective collaboration between R&D, Sales, and Clinical teams.
• Ability to translate complex contexts and solutions into clear and concise visions and actionable strategies.
• Proven organizational skills and the ability to manage complex operational and project-based tasks.
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication and presentation skills in both English and German, capable of driving cross-functional collaboration and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Munich; willingness for up to 20% travel.

Additional Information

• A mutually-supportive, international team
• Meaningful work with a lasting impact on medical technology
• 30 vacation days, plus December 24th and December 31st
• Flexible working hours as well as hybrid work model within Germany
• Bike leasing via cooperation partner "BikeLeasing"
• Parking garage and safe underground bike storage
• Award-winning subsidized company restaurant and in-house cafes
• Variety-rich fitness program in our ultra-modern 360m2 company gym
• Regular after work, team, and company events
• Comprehensive training and continuing education opportunities

Ready to apply? We look forward to receiving your online application including your first available start date and desired salary.

Contact person: Leonie von Leoprechting