Company Description
At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.
Job Description
Intuitive’s da Vinci and Ion systems push the frontier of human-machine interaction by fusing many technologies into a core product experience – technologies such as immersive 3D vision, real-time haptic interfaces and robotic instruments and accessories. Industrial Design is a key function at Intuitive that works across multiple technical disciplines to envision possibilities and synthesize needs & requirements into beautifully designed, high performance solutions that make customers’ experience of using complex surgical devices safe, easy to learn, and confidence-inspiring.
The Manager, Industrial Design manages a team of industrial designers and collaborates with adjacent design teams (interaction, visual, creative), brand, mechanical engineering, clinical engineering, human factors, and product marketing teams to design beautiful, honest, and high performance products and experiences. They strive to improve existing products and create future solutions that are highly usable, manufacturable, and aligned with the intuitive brand. They do this by guiding efforts with a holistic mindset, helping to establish appropriate usability and design criteria, leading a design team, and collaborating with partners to bring new products to life. This includes managing physical design development from early product definition and development phases through product launch, as well supporting validation of product usability through testing with representative users.
Role And Responsibilities
Drive industrial design efforts
Nurtures relationships with partners and stakeholders within the businesses Leads the design of physical products, product ecosystems, and design strategies from concept to implementation. Identifies, frames, and acts on opportunities to drive product design and user experience consistency, and envisions compelling new product possibilities for the business. Creates compelling presentations and regularly presents to business leaders and stakeholders.
Advocate For Product Usability And Design Excellence
Serves as a leading champion of product usability and design excellence by collaborating with other design teams (interaction, visual, creative), clinical development, human factors, product marketing to inform and prove designs. Collaborates with mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing engineering to explore, define attributes, and execute highly crafted new product designs.
Functionally Manage a Team Of Designers
- Establishes group objectives and individual work goals for the team, consistent with overall product development and business goals.
- Plans resources, assigns tasks, sets priorities, establishes metrics and tracks progress for team.
- Facilitates and drives informed, efficient, and collaborative decision-making.
- Nurtures personal development of team members. Establishes goals and tracks performance.
- Recruits and retains creative and highly capable industrial design professionals.
- Seeks out and adopts best practices from industry to develop and improve Industrial Design processes at Intuitive.
Qualifications
Skills/Job Requirements:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in product design and development.
- Minimum Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, in Industrial Design.
- Experience leading industrial designers, including mentoring staff, negotiation of project scopes with stakeholders, and general project management ability.
- Proven record of design excellence and shepherding of highly usable and beautiful products to market that contain sophisticated user interactions.
- Excellent teamwork skills with natural inclination to collaborate across multiple disciplines.
- Brings holistic view. High-level of confidence and articulation of design approach and POV. Exceptional aesthetic and storytelling skills. Passionate for delivering the best possible experience.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
Additional Information
Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.
Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.
Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.
Base Salary Range Region 1: $169,800 USD - $244,400 USD
Base Salary Range Region 2: $144,300 USD - $207,700 USD
Shift: Day
Workplace Type: Set Schedule - This job will be onsite weekly, the percentage of onsite work will be defined by the leader.
