Principal Industrial Designer(Hybrid)

Stryker • Portage, MI • 10h ago

Join Stryker's Orthopedic Instruments (OI) team as a Principal Industrial Designer, where creativity meets purpose. In this role, you will lead design activities and collaborate with engineering and marketing teams to develop innovative product platforms focused on surgical procedural solutions. Leveraging User-Centered Design techniques, you'll ensure optimal user experience, ergonomics, usability, human factors, aesthetics, and safety.

As a design leader, you will plan and conduct user observation research in the OR, synthesize insights, and translate them into compelling design solutions through 2D and 3D visualization, proto@types, and systems. From concept to implementation, you'll guide the design development process, merging user needs with business objectives to deliver high-quality solutions. Successful candidates will bring a strong commercial portfolio, leadership qualities, and the ability to mentor team members while driving design strategy at the business level.

Click to know more about the Team: Orthopaedic Instruments (https://www.stryker.com/us/en/portfolios/medical-surgical-equipment/power-tools-and-cutting-accessories.html)

You will need to live within commuting distance to our 1941 Stryker Way, Portage, MI

This role Hybrid with an expectation to be in the office a minimum of 3 days in a week.

What You Will Do

Ensure consistency of visual brand language across divisional and inter-divisional product designs.

Identify new market opportunities-both core and adjacent-aligned with brand values and strategic goals.

Lead research on design trends and product limitations; use insights to define user experience, aesthetics, safety, functionality, and production feasibility.

Drive development of product vision and portfolio brand language, influencing design strategy and execution.

Provide expert input on form development, human factors, ergonomics, material selection, finishes, color, and graphical user interfaces for Stryker products.

Lead and facilitate multi-disciplinary team meetings, presenting design concepts and portfolio to stakeholders and management.

Oversee testing and validation of designs through focus groups, surveys, and user feedback sessions; manage external design firms as needed.

Mentor Industrial Designers, lead design reviews, and actively contribute to building design excellence within the team.

What You Need

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in science (Industrial Design, Product Design, or related discipline) with relevant experience in design and product development.

8+ years of professional experience, including leading development teams and projects, supported by a portfolio showcasing commercialized products.

Proven experience working in a regulated industry.

Expertise in design software (such as Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Creo or similar advanced CAD tools.

Background in the medical device industry.

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. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine 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.

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability.

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