Staff Industrial Design Engineer

at  Stryker

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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.

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.

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.)
  Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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

• 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.)