Staff Industrial Design Engineer

Staff Industrial Design Engineer
 

Why Design and engineering at Stryker?

At Stryker, we are dedicated to improving lives, with a passion for researching and developing new medical device products. As a designer at Stryker, you will be proud of the work that you will be doing, using cutting-edge surgical technologies to save lives and make healthcare better. Here, you will work in a supportive culture with other incredibly talented and intelligent people, creating industry-leading medical technology products. You will also have growth opportunities, as we have a culture that supports your personal and professional development.
 

Where will you work?

You will work within our world-class industrial design team based in the Innovation Centre Cork, Ireland. You will be dedicated to supporting all of the business units we support working with interdisciplinary teams globally to research, design, and develop next-generation aesthetic, ergonomic, and functional prototypes, devices, and systems with the best user experiences.

Summary

In this highly collaborative role, you will work closely with a team of talented designers, researchers, engineers, and marketers who are driven to deliver innovative, human-centered solutions for the healthcare industry. You will be a part of a design team that is responsible for driving the vision for the future of Stryker products. Utilizing user-centered design principles and methodology, you will work with interdisciplinary teams to identify relevant insights and translate them into actionable design opportunities. The designer puts significant effort into defining the user experience and product attributes that support the experience. The designer continues to advocate for the end user during a product’s development and drives activities to solicit end user feedback, such as end user co-creation activities.

At Stryker, the industrial designer is typically focused on the user experience, desirability physical appearance, functionality, and manufacturability of a product, though they are often involved in far more during the development cycle. The designer brings specialized competencies to an interdisciplinary team as they attempt to find solutions for problems of form, function, usability, physical ergonomics, marketing and brand development, sustainability, and sales.

Designers are expected to play a dual role for the benefit of the teams they collaborate with:

1. The designer must have a passion to learn, leverage, and facilitate design thinking methods and tools to improve collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking in the cross-functional teams they support. It is through design process facilitation that a designer leads the effort to define a meaningful user experience.

2. In role as the creative specialist, the designer creates divergent product and service solutions to key market and business problems their team has identified as critical to the success of a project. Including establishing the strategic design plan and the aesthetic direction for the product.

Who we want

Problem solvers. Curious-minded achievers who resolve complex problems where precedent may not have previously existed

Articulate communicators. Individuals with a natural ability to communicate complex concepts into easily understandable ideas both visually and verbally

Attentive multitaskers. Associates who hold themselves accountable for managing multiple priorities and timelines at once

Relationship builders. Team players who collaborate with internal stakeholders to create powerful outcomes.

Dedicated achievers. Designers with an unparalleled, never-ending work ethic and a customer-focused attitude who bring value to every project they touch

Game changers. Persistent designers who will stop at nothing to live out Stryker’s mission to make healthcare better

Engaging professionals and mentors Engaging Professionals. Designers who bring their best talents and skills to their teams every day, as well as natural teachers who can create learning environments for less experienced designers,

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree is required in Industrial Design or Product Design (2:1 or 1:1 strongly preferred)
• Must have excellent communication skills to lead conversations, solve technical challenges and mentor and facilitate discussions with other SME's on design related challenges and innovative opportunities.
• Minimum of 6+ years of professional industrial or medical device design experience.
• Have a designer portfolio that demonstrates mastery of the industrial design process, research methodologies, and experience from concept through product execution is required.
• Demonstrable experience working as part of a cross-functional product development team with commercial and technical stakeholders in an agency or in-house setting.
• Good Industrial design sketching and oral and verbal presentation techniques to communicate your ideas.
• Very good model-making skills are required to communicate the product look and feel of your designs.
• Must be fully proficient in a CAD surfacing and parametric modeling software such as Solidworks, Creo, Rhino, Blender, etc.
• Very good Keyshot rendering and 3D visualization skills and experience.
• Excellent working proficiency with the Adobe creative suite (Photoshop and Illustrator are essential)
• A Master’s in Medical Device Design, Industrial design or Interaction Design or design related field is desirable but not essential.
• Have a positive attitude, creative spirit, be customer-obsessed, empathetic and be able to give and receive constructive feedback. Have a growth mindset.

Additional Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining Stryker product offerings, form development, human factors and ergonomics, material selection, finishes, color, brand language and graphical user interfaces.
• Act in the role of the product development team’s synthesizer, using a diverse set of design tools and methods to create probes for the purpose of gaining valuable feedback from the team and our customers. A designer should be quick to action and create concepts through sketching, visual storytelling, and physical prototypes.
• Implement the product visual brand language in accordance to the business unit’s product line and portfolio.
• Support a product development team with visual communication in all phases of the product development process.
• Practice planning key activities that will lead to a strong personal contribution to a project and project team. The designer has to balance project work with training and practice to learn and refine design skills (ie. sketching, CAD modeling, digital rendering, etc.)

Design Process Knowledge and Facilitation

• Inform the project team of key trends in design related topics such as product design, color, materials and finishes. Assure product concepts proposals are inclusive of market winning attributes consistent with, or inspired by, global design and technology trends.
• Devise methods and activities to accomplish better collaboration, communication and decision-making within the teams you work.
• Develop design process/activity plans (design briefs and schedules) as a means to secure the proper time and activities to execute world-class design.
• Manage the selection and management of external design partners when necessary.
• Develop and facilitate research to gain key end user insights for concept generation and design usability validation.
• Actively participate in strategic discussions/planning regarding portfolio and development direction.
• Bring a high level of professionalism and demonstrate the unique contribution of design specialization (demonstrate the role of a designer on a team)
• Strong personal time/activity planning and management
• Demonstrate high degree of collaboration and teamwork
• solves a diverse range of problems, from simple to complex
• Act as functional expert or internal consultant regarding all matters of design. (process, specialization, etc.)