Director, Upstream Marketing - IP Liaison

The Company

Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM; Market Cap $44.3B) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health.

We are driven by nearly 10,000 ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Meet The Team

This position is responsible for proactively capturing technology and product innovation opportunities, through collaboration with Marketing, Research and Development, Corporate Development, and Intellectual Property. This position will drive alignment around valuation and prioritization, and then initial solutioning and prototyping that can be used as demonstrative embodiments.

This position has a deep understanding of relevant market space, products and services, competitive offerings, and relevant healthcare and consumer industry trends.

Where You Come In

Accelerate Dexcom innovation and intellectual property efforts:

• Provide regular technology and product development project updates to the Intellectual Property group
• Organize and initiate regular brainstorming and invention disclosure review meetings with technology and product development teams
• Draft outlines for new Dexcom invention disclosures
  
  

Prioritize Dexcom Intellectual Property Capture

• Prioritize patent harvesting projects to support key technology and product development milestones
• Provide support in freedom to operate (FTO) projects to advance key business unit(s) project milestones
• Support intellectual property litigation to help the organization meet long-term business objectives
  
  

The Candidate Must Demonstrate The Following Foundational Leadership Capabilities

Learning Agility and Innovation Mindset

• Demonstrate curiosity and a continuous learning mindset
• Proactively share knowledge with others for continued improvement
• Exhibit willingness to test and learn from new approaches, advancing our products and markets
• Eagerness to understand areas beyond functional accountabilities, including the technology and science behind our products
  
  

Problem Solving and Results Orientation

• Proactively address strategic and operational challenges
• Use business judgement to make decisions based on facts and data, advancing problem-solving in uncertain times/ambiguous situations, balancing risk with value-creation opportunity
• Connect functional accountability with broader business outcomes
• Intentionality to “zoom out and zoom in” as needed: challenge broadly on big, longer-term possibilities, while being ‘hands on’ and persistent in delivering today’s business results
  
  

Collaboration, Team First Mindset, And Company-Wide Impact

• Start with a team first, global mindset to deliver superior results
• Celebrate individuals and teams for achieving significant milestones and goals
• Demonstrate the ability to “zoom in and out” to meet situational leadership demands, driving broad impact
  
  

Communication and Credibility

• Translate company and team business imperatives to specific prioritized actions and deliverables
• Create and foster a culture of empowered accountability, enabling others to deliver at their fullest potential
• Motivate high performing teams through this exciting period of growth and transformation
• Set clear expectations and deliver on commitments
  
  

What Makes You Successful

• Must have deep knowledge of business strategy, market research, marketing, product management, engineering and product development.
• Proven ability to lead teams and use influence management effectively with cross-functional partners and senior management.
• Strong communication skills, high energy; executive presence.
  
  

What You’ll Get

• A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community .
• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
• An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.
  
  

Travel Required

• 15-25%
  
  

Experience And Education Requirements

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of industry experience
• 9+ years of successful management experience in relevant industry
  
  

Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Dexcom’s AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@dexcom.com.

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Meritain, an Aetna Company, creates and publishes the Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Dexcom. To link to the Machine-Readable Files, please click on the URL provided: https://health1.meritain.com/app/public/#/one/insurerCode=MERITAIN_I&brandCode=MERITAINOVER/machine-readable-transparency-in-coverage?reportingEntityType=TPA_19874&lock=true

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Salary

$164,200.00 - $273,600.00