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Director, Product & Design

The Director, Product & Design

Leads the strategic direction and execution of product and design initiatives across the Provation healthcare SaaS portfolio. This role drives innovation, user-centered design, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, compliant, and impactful solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Strategy & Vision

  • Define and execute product strategy aligned with business goals
  • Translate market insights into differentiated product offerings
  • Prioritize roadmap based on user needs, compliance, and scalability

Design Leadership

  • Champion design thinking and user-centered innovation
  • Guide design execution across product teams
  • Ensure consistency and accessibility in user experience

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with engineering, clinical, and marketing teams
  • Align product and design efforts with organizational strategy
  • Facilitate agile delivery and iterative development

Healthcare SaaS Expertise

  • Understand healthcare workflows and compliance standards (HIPAA, HL7, FHIR)
  • Design for interoperability and regulatory alignment
  • Integrate AI/ML capabilities into product design

Analytics & Market Insight

  • Leverage data to inform product decisions and measure impact
  • Conduct competitive analysis and user research
  • Drive continuous improvement through feedback loops

People Leadership

  • Coach, mentor, and manage performance to foster individual growth and accountability, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain top talent by building strong capabilities and creating clear career development pathways/providing opportunities for continuous learning and advancement.
  • Cultivate a high-performing culture that promotes engagement, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams.

Required Qualifications:

Education & Experience Guidelines

  • Bachelors Degree required; Masters degree preferred
  • 8-12 years relevant experience, with 5-8 years in leadership roles
  • Demonstrated impact leveraging AI as a productivity and effectiveness multiplier
  • Proven success delivering SaaS solutions in healthcare or regulated industries
  • Expertise in agile methodologies and digital product lifecycle
  • Ability to travel 25-30% is required.

Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications

  • Knowledge of HIPAA, HL7, FHIR, and healthcare compliance standards
  • Experience with AI/ML integration in product design
  • Certification in Agile, Scrum, or Product Management frameworks

Fortive 9 Behaviors by Level:

  • Customer Obsessed: Starts with the customers needs and makes decisions with their perspective in mind.
  • Strategic: Uses data-driven insights to influence and shape strategies that advance organizational priorities across multiple functions.
  • Innovation for Impact: Inspires breakthrough solutions by nurturing ideas through experimentation and embracing diverse perspectives.
  • Inspiring: Communicates a compelling vision that energizes and motivates others.
  • Builds Extraordinary Teams: Creates a unified leadership group that drives organizational success.
  • Courageous: Takes decisive action and tackles tough issues head-on.
  • Delivers Results: Leads with high standards and urgency, driving values-based execution for quality, timely, and sustainable results.
  • Adaptable: Maintains rigor while continuously experimenting and learning.
  • Lead with FBS: Goes to Gemba - Observes real-world processes at the source and embraces FBS principles through kaizen, coaching, and leveraging expertise to solve challenges.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortives essential technology makes the world safer and more productive. We accelerate transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, build environments, and healthcare. We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in healthcare sterilization, industrial safety, predictive maintenance, and other mission-critical solutions. Were a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to advanced technologies that help providers focus on exceptional patient care. We are a diverse team 10,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

About Provation

Provation is a leading provider of healthcare software and SaaS solutions for clinical productivity, care coordination, quality reporting, and billing. Our purpose is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. Provations comprehensive portfolio spans the entire patient encounter, from pre-procedure through post-procedure, with solutions for physician and nursing documentation (Provation® MD, Provation® Apex, MD-Reports, Provation® endoPRO®, and Provation® MultiCaregiver), anesthesia documentation (#1 Best in KLAS Provation® iPro), patient engagement, surgical care coordination, quality reporting, and billing capture (Provation® SurgicalValet™), order set and care plan management (Provation® Order Set Advisor™ and Provation® Care Plans), and EHR embedded clinical documentation (Provation® Clinic Note). Provation has a loyal customer base, serving more than 5,000 hospitals, surgery centers, and medical offices, and 700 physician groups globally, including 19 of the top 20 U.S. hospitals. In 2021, Provation was acquired by Fortive Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company that builds essential technology and accelerates transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, engineering, and healthcare.

Our purpose at Provation is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. To deliver on this commitment, were guided by our core values – Provation has a culture of CARES:

  • Community - We have a shared sense of improving healthcare, enriching the broader world we live in and serve.
  • Accountability - We own it and get it done with integrity.
  • Respect - We build diverse teams that collaborate and communicate with positive intent and trust.
  • Excellence - We welcome new ideas as we innovate quality solutions.
  • Service - We are passionate about putting customers first.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.

Bonus or Equity

This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.

Pay Range

The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 114,100.00 - 190,500.00