Manager – Industrial Design
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
|---|---|
| Location | Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.