- Portage, MI 49002, United States
- Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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Job description
Stryker is seeking a dynamic and visionary product development leader with a proven track record of leading large, complex product development programs through the application of systems engineering principles. As the technical quarterback, this individual will drive alignment, collaboration, and execution across a multidisciplinary global product line, ensuring teams work cohesively toward shared objectives while delivering innovative solutions that improve patient care.
As medical technologies continue to evolve, our products must operate seamlessly within broader healthcare ecosystems and enabling technology platforms. This leader will be responsible for defining and overseeing system-level architectures, ensuring robust integration across hardware, software, data, connectivity, and partner technologies. They will champion a systems-thinking approach, proactively identify opportunities and risks, and ensuring our products deliver a seamless user experience while supporting the future needs of a connected healthcare environment.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with exceptional leadership, influencing stakeholders across functions, geographies, and organizational levels to bring complex systems and product visions to life.
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What You Will Do
- Lead system architecture, technical strategy, and integration activities for complex medical device products and platforms.
- Translate customer, clinical, and business needs into system-level requirements and drive alignment across software, electrical, and mechanical engineering teams.
- Lead requirements development, allocation, traceability, and verification planning throughout the product lifecycle.
- Drive system-level decision making, architecture reviews, tradeoff analyses, and risk assessments.
- Lead cross-functional product development efforts from concept through verification, ensuring delivery of safe, reliable, and high-quality solutions.
- Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, and Engineering stakeholders to ensure compliance with design controls and applicable standards.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate product development risks while promoting a risk-based development approach.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend new capabilities, platforms, and solutions that support future customer needs.
- Build alignment across global stakeholders and influence design direction without direct authority.
What You Will Need (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, Software, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- 8+ years of relevant engineering experience in product development, systems engineering, or technical leadership roles.
- Experience developing products within a regulated industry environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Medical device product development experience.
- Experience leading system architecture and integration activities for complex, multidisciplinary products.
- Knowledge of requirements management, verification, and system-level risk management.
- Experience with ISO 13485, ISO 14971, FDA Design Controls, or similar regulatory frameworks.
- Experience with requirements management tools such as Jama, DOORS, or Polarion.
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML.
- Experience developing connected products, digital health solutions, or integrated healthcare technologies.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading design efforts across cross-functional teams.
$118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual
Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Click here to learn more about: US Stryker employee benefits Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology and Orthopaedics that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.
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