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Director Product & Design
Abbott Laboratories · 🇺🇸 United States - California - Pleasanton
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 28 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Abbott Laboratories paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Director, IT Architecture” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in IL: $188k–$205k, median $197k. Most were filed at wage level IV (50%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Abbott Laboratories
The US Department of Labor certified 73 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 28 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. JOB DESCRIPTION: Responsible for defining and driving the global product portfolio strategy, digital solutions roadmap, and innovation agenda across the Heart Failure division, influencing enterprise investment decisions, growth strategies, and long-term business performance globally. Acts as a key strategic leader, shaping the future direction of the portfolio by integrating customer needs, market opportunities, clinical insights, regulatory and quality requirements, business objectives, and emerging technologies. Leads global product and design organizations responsible for translating unmet needs into differentiated products and solutions that accelerate growth, improve patient outcomes, and strengthen competitive advantage across all Heart Failure markets worldwide. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Define and drive the global Heart Failure product portfolio strategy, long-range planning, and roadmap development for pipeline products, digital solutions, services, and innovation initiatives, ensuring alignment with divisional objectives, enterprise priorities, and future growth opportunities. • Establish the product vision, strategic direction, and value proposition framework by translating customer, clinical, market, and business insights into enterprise-wide product strategies and investment priorities. • Set the product design, human factors, usability, and product experience strategy for the Heart Failure portfolio, ensuring customer and user insights are translated into product requirements, design decisions, validation, and lifecycle improvements. • Shape the future innovation agenda for Heart Failure by identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing emerging technologies, new product opportunities, strategic partnerships, and innovation initiatives that drive sustainable portfolio growth and competitive differentiation. • Lead the development of business cases, market assessments, and investment strategies that inform portfolio prioritization, lifecycle management, resource allocation, and long-term growth decisions across the global Heart Failure portfolio. • Establish and drive the strategic product development agenda with R&D leadership, ensuring product requirements, development priorities, and investment decisions align with customer needs, business strategy, and portfolio objectives. • Lead product development governance, including stage-gate reviews and design control decision-making, ensuring alignment between product strategy, technical execution, commercial objectives, and business priorities. • Own product management strategy across the entire product lifecycle, from concept development through commercialization, launch readiness, market expansion, and ongoing portfolio optimization. • Drive cross-functional alignment with Clinical Affairs, Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Quality leadership to shape evidence-generation, regulatory, and quality strategies that enable portfolio success and accelerated market adoption. • Define the strategic evidence-generation framework and influence clinical study priorities to support regulatory approvals, reimbursement objectives, physician adoption, and long-term market leadership. • Lead enterprise-wide alignment across Marketing, Commercial, Market Access, and Market Insights organizations to define commercialization strategies, drive customer adoption, and maximize g