Senior Manager, Strategic/Upstream Marketing at JenaValve Technology, Inc. | Irvine, CA

Senior Manager, Strategic/Upstream Marketing

Irvine, CA (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

Job Summary

Own the global product and education strategy, turning clinical insights into a long horizon roadmap while aligning education, sales enablement, and clinical training to accelerate product adoption.

Product & Innovation: steer future indications, portfolio expansion, and differentiation based on market and clinical feedback.
Education & Training: guide comprehensive curricula and training programs for clinicians and the commercial team.
Insights & Usability: convert physician input and device usability data into design changes and a streamlined implant experience.

Job Description

Lead the long-term global product and innovation strategy, ensuring future development aligns with corporate commercial goals and clinical unmet needs.
Oversee the education programs for the organization, guiding the strategic development of comprehensive clinical training programs and curricula.
Foster critical alignment across Education, Sales Enablement, and Clinical Training to deliver a cohesive, integrated training experience for both healthcare professionals and the commercial team.
Drive product development through meaningful product iterations, differentiation, and indication expansion strategies rooted in a strategic market understanding and informed by clinical insights.
Translate clinical observations and physician feedback from education initiatives into actionable insights for long-term product and pipeline strategy.
Continuously monitor clinical outcomes and device usability to identify necessary design changes and improve the streamlined implant experience.
Define and map out future indications for the Trilogy platform through clinical trial expansion and product iterations.
Provide executive oversight to ensure compliance and excellence of all strategic marketing, educational, and regulatory documentation.

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field. MBA highly preferred.
Minimum of 7 plus years of experience in medical device marketing, strategy, or clinical education leadership.
Proven leadership experience managing cross-functional initiatives, teams, and overseeing complex, long-term product portfolios.
Deep strategic expertise in the structural heart, cardiology, or TAVR space is highly preferred.
Demonstrated history of guiding products through early-stage innovation and scaling professional education or clinical training programs.
Strong technical acumen with the ability to initiate, own and navigate complex and nuanced long-term projects, with multiple stakeholders and moving parts.
Ability to comprehensively understand the market, gathering and translating clinical unmet needs into specific, actionable technical requirements.
High level of proficiency in strategic marketing functions including VOC, competitor pipeline mapping, TAM modeling, formal design and regulatory documentation.
Collaborative leadership style with the ability to partner with and influence cross-functional teams.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, highly organized.

JenaValve Technology, Inc.

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JenaValve is a medical device company developing the first transcatheter heart valve technology that is uniquely designed for the minimally invasive treatment of aortic regurgitation (AR). The JenaValve Trilogy Heart Valve System is the first and only device currently approved in the EU for the treatment of severe, symptomatic aortic regurgitation in patients that are deemed high-risk for surgical aortic valve replacement. The Trilogy System is also CE-Mark approved for treatment of severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis.In the US, JenaValve has completed enrollment of the ALIGN-AR IDE Clinical Trial which will support a future PMA submission. If approved, the Trilogy System would become the first and only TAVR system in the US indicated for the treatment of symptomatic, severe AR.JenaValve is headquartered in Irvine, California with offices in Leeds, U.K. and Munich, Germany.

Founded in 2013

Irvine, California, USA

218 employees (4 in marketing)

www.jenavalve.com

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