Principal Product Manager

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare with leading businesses and products in diagnostics medical devices nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott you can do work that matters grow and learn care for yourself and your family be your true self and live a full life. Youll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Principal Product Manager for Enterprise Developer Experience defines the vision strategy and roadmap for the platforms tools and capabilities developers rely on to build and deliver software. The role connects developer needs with enterprise priorities to reduce friction improve engineering flow and enable secure high-quality delivery at scale.

This is a cross-cutting senior individual-contributor role. You will lead through influence align multiple platform and engineering teams and shape investment decisions across the developer ecosystem. A key part of the mandate is enabling responsible high-value adoption of AI across the software development lifecycle.

In addition this role requires strong strategic leadership critical thinking and business acumen to guide teams through complex decisions maximize the value of technology investments and drive measurable outcomes across the enterprise.

The portfolio may include source control and collaboration build and release automation internal developer portals and self-service development environments automated testing engineering intelligence secure software delivery and AI Developer Experience capabilities.

This is an opportunity to shape how an enterprise engineering community works. You will influence the platforms practices partnerships and AI-enabled experiences that help developers move from idea to impact with greater speed quality security and confidence.

You will also play a pivotal role in ensuring technology investments vendor partnerships and AI-enabled capabilities deliver sustainable business value while supporting the growth and effectiveness of the engineering community.

What Youll Do

Set the Enterprise Developer Experience Strategy

Define and communicate the Developer Experience product vision portfolio strategy and roadmap.

Prioritize investments using developer research product telemetry business value technical health risk and cost.

Align domain roadmaps identify duplication and gaps and guide build buy standardize and retirement decisions.

Apply critical thinking and data-driven analysis to evaluate competing priorities risks opportunities and long-term enterprise impact.

Foster alignment and leadership across teams facilitating decision-making and partnering with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Enable AI-Powered Developer Experiences

Set product direction for AI coding assistants agentic workflows enterprise knowledge integration AI-enabled testing documentation and operational workflows.

Partner with engineering architecture security data privacy legal risk and procurement to establish safe and scalable enterprise patterns.

Drive adoption through onboarding education reusable practices communities of practice support and clear responsible-use guidance.

Mentor and guide cross-functional teams fostering a culture of collaboration innovation continuous improvement and customer-centric thinking

Champion the Developer

Build continuous discovery and feedback loops with developers engineering leaders and technical communities.

Translating workflow pain points and unmet needs into clear product outcomes priorities and roadmaps.

Represent the developer perspective in architecture security governance and investment decisions.

Drive Delivery Adoption and Outcomes

Partner with engineering and platform teams from discovery through delivery launch adoption and lifecycle management.

Make transparent trade-offs across developer value reliability security technical health operational risk and enterprise priorities.

Define success measures for developer flow platform and AI adoption satisfaction delivery performance self-service quality cost and risk.

Drive accountability across teams for achieving strategic objectives adoption targets and operational excellence

Education and Experience Youll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering or related field.

Required

Overall 10 years experience including 8 or more years of product management experience.

Strong experience including ownership of enterprise developer experience platforms software development tooling and AI Developer experience capabilities.

Demonstrated experience setting product strategy making portfolio trade-offs and delivering measurable outcomes across multiple teams.

Strong technical fluency and the ability to build credibility with engineers architects security teams and senior technology leaders.

Experience using customer research product telemetry operational data and business evidence to guide decisions.

Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams when ownership funding and priorities are distributed.

Exceptional communication relationship-building and decision-making skills.

Demonstrated leadership capabilities including the ability to coach mentor and influence technical and business teams without direct authority.

Strong critical thinking problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and make sound strategic decisions.

Experience managing technology investments budgets vendor relationships and value realization initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with developer platforms internal products or one or more Developer Experience domains.

Experience with AI-enabled products AI-assisted software development or responsible enterprise AI adoption.

Experience working in a large matrixed global or regulated organization.

Experience leading enterprise change initiatives and driving adoption of new technologies and ways of working.

Misc: This is an onsite role at Abbott location in IL. This is not a remote role/opportunity.

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The base pay for this position is

$129300.00 $258700.00

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

IT Services & Solutions Delivery

BTS Business Technology Services

United States > Waukegan : J46

United States > Chicago : Willis Tower Building 233 S Wacker Dr.

Standard

Yes 5 % of the Time

Not Applicable

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

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