Head of Engineering, Lingo

Job description

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 114,000 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 family, be your true self and live a full life.

You’ll also have access to:

+ Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
+ Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
+ An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
+ Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree
+ A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

**Abbott Lingo**

Health and digital technology have united into a powerhouse force, igniting a fundamental shift in how people manage their health.

Supporting this movement is Abbott's portfolio of biowearable technologies, including their leading FreeStyle Libre system for continuous glucose monitoring.

In January 2022, Abbott introduced Lingo, a biosensing technology that helps consumers better understand their general health to take action.

Having operated like a startup within Abbott, Lingo extends the Abbott sensing technology platform, allowing continuous glucose monitoring with a small biosensor patch on the back of the upper arm.

With an accompanying app, Lingo aims to become a true consumer brand that differentiates with its ability to leverage Abbott relationships in the medical industry and expand glucose monitoring to individuals looking to manage weight, improve sleep, boost energy, and enhance cognitive function.

The Lingo Count system offers personalized coaching and guided health suggestions such to reduce glucose spikes, retrain your metabolism, and optimize long-term well-being.

Lingo tracks key signals in the body such as glucose, ketones, and lactate and Abbott is designing other features like a ketone biowearable to provide insights on dieting and weight loss, and a lactate biowearable to monitor lactate build-up during exercise, which can be an indicator of athletic performance.

**Opportunity For Impact**

The Head of Engineering will be responsible for leading a world-class digital technology function that builds and maintains the Lingo Biosensor platform, used to improve the lives of Lingo customers through the creation of life-changing digitally connected products.

Reporting to Lingo's business unit leader, the Head of Engineering will be a member of the leadership team and lead a high-performing engineering organization focused on the development of current and next generation Lingo products using the Lingo Biosensor technologies.

In partnership with the Head of Product, this Executive will be responsible for executing on the product roadmap and bringing concepts to fully scaled, regulated products.

**What You’ll Work On**

+ Develop a clear vision for internal processes and build an agile digital product culture that aligns with business goals, ensuring the successful delivery of a large-scale portfolio globally.
+ Collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive the development of current and next-generation products using Lingo Biosensor technologies and develop innovative technology solutions that exceed customer expectations.
+ Provide leadership and technical direction to deliver best-in-class Platform Services and Consumer Apps that touch millions of users worldwide.
+ Attract, inspire and retain great talent with a clear philosophy for talent development, technical career tracks, and best in class recruiting practices.
+ Challenge the status quo in developing software for consumer medical devices to deliver a best-in-class user experience.
+ Lead product development teams through the discovery, ideation, design, and technical development of minimum viable products and market-ready digital products.
+ Implement a dev-ops culture to ensure quick and safe deployment of new features and changes.
+ Further develop machine learning and AI capabilities to address business opportunities in predictive health and personalized experiences.
+ Understand and communicate Abbott’s strategic vision and market needs for delivering digitally connected products that achieve company goals in a fast-paced startup environment.

**Personal Characteristics**

+ Demonstrates accountability by taking ownership of projects and outcomes, consistently meeting deadlines, and addressing challenges proactively to ensure successful results.
+ Ability to strike a balance between being entrepreneurial and agile in a startup environment, and having an understanding of how to operate in a large and complex corporate environment.
+ A clear communicator with a strong point of view on how to build, influence, and collaborate.
+ Ability to drive operational excellence and efficiency through disciplined prioritization and trade-off management.
+ Thrives in a fast-paced environment and excels at bringing structure to teams.
+ Talent magnet with the ability to attract and build exceptional talent.
+ Talent developer who fosters the skills of the current team and prepares for future workforce needs.
+ Results-oriented with a strong work ethic and a focus on mission-driven problem-solving in the consumer sector.

**Qualifications**

+ Bachelor’s degree required.

Master’s degree in engineering preferred.
+ Minimum of 15 years of software product development experience in large or mid-size multinational healthtech businesses, with a focus on product development, ideally building internal startup capabilities.
+ Experience developing mobile software products for millions of users in highly regulated environments.
+ Experience building software products that interface with medical devices is a plus.
+ Excellence in managing and building sizable technology teams across operations, QA, data, engineering, architects and cybersecurity.
+ Demonstrated success in building and scaling products across multiple platforms.
+ Strong executive presence and leadership traits with the self-directed competence to translate concepts to outcomes and an understanding of the company's financial practices and goals - including drivers of process costs.
+ Exceptional track record in delivering complex and cross-functional programs.
+ Extensive experience in technical design and architecture, with a deep understanding of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and contemporary design patterns, including microservices.
+ Broad IT ability in various disciplines, that include establishing Agile development methodologies, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, organization change management, etc.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $216,700.00 – $433,300.00.

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

An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com

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