Edwards Lifesciences Corp

Sr Principal Industrial Designer

Edwards Lifesciences Corp$145K — $205K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design or related field
  • 10 years of experience in device and user interface design
  • Proficient in developing low-, medium-, and high-fidelity prototypes
  • Skilled in creating CAD models
  • Experienced across all product development phases from ideation to high-fidelity models

Responsibilities

  • Foster and support Industrial Design activities with new product development teams
  • Execute UI design guidelines for consistency across platforms
  • Utilize user experience techniques for intuitive interfaces
  • Lead design improvement and optimization for medical devices
  • Partner with external design teams and stakeholders to support Industrial Design activities
  • Identify and resolve issues within the Industrial Design space
  • Create and update design control documents with knowledge of design requirements
  • Develop project plans to assess user experience and drive results

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries and performance-based incentives
  • Variety of benefits programs for employees and their families
  • Opportunities for career advancement in a high visibility role
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams and external partners
  • A chance to make a significant impact in product innovation within the medical device field
Full Job Description
How you'll make an impact:

This is a unique opportunity to foster and support Industrial Design activities with new product development teams across projects and business units. This is a high visibility and high impact career opportunity.

Provide technical expertise in the creation and execution of innovative designs, prototype new concepts, and support consistent and intuitive product experiences in partnership with Human Factors Engineering, Marketing, and various cross-functional business partners.
• Execute UI design guidelines to ensure consistent design and interaction elements across platforms and projects. Provide creative Industrial Design recommendations that align with and support design control activities for devices.
• Utilize user experience techniques to make intuitive interfaces that minimize user training and learning curves for medical devices.
• Lead in the improvement, design and optimization of medical devices, provide recommendations with increased complexity, and develop reports, based on user experience design principles that translate to innovative products.
• Support Industrial Design activities by partnering with external design partners and various stakeholders throughout the organization as needed.
• Identify, evaluate, manage, and provide guidance to stakeholders to implement consistent Industrial Design frameworks across a variety of devices.
• Proactively identify issues, achieve resolution, and resolve problems within the Industrial Design space.
• Create/update Industrial Design-related design control documents including requirement specs and risk documents with robust knowledge on design control requirements.
• Develop project plans to assess user experience and drive project results.

What you'll need (Required):

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design or related field, 10 years of previous related experience required
Experience in designing devices and user interfaces in challenging situations required
Experience in developing low-, medium-, and high-fidelity prototypes required
Experience in creating CAD models required
Experience across all phases of product development from ideation, user research, feasibility, prototyping, design iteration, and high-fidelity models required

What else we look for (Preferred):
• Demonstrated experience in consistently executing design language and libraries across various product platforms
• Demonstrated experience in designing products that minimize risk of use errors, require minimal training, and are intuitive
• Proven experience with CAD software (SolidWorks, Creo, etc)
• Demonstrated ability to work with teams to complete critical milestones under pressure with short deadlines
• Proven successful project management skills
• Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite and other related tools and/or systems required
• Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills
• Extensive knowledge of own area within the organization while contributing to the development of new concepts, techniques, and standards
• Extensive understanding of Industrial Design
• Extensive understanding of user experience concepts
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Leadership and talent development skills
• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California (CA), the base pay range for this position is $145,000 to $205,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.

About Edwards Lifesciences Corp

Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical technology company headquartered in Irvine, California, specializing in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. It developed the SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve made of cow tissue within a balloon-expandable, cobalt-chromium frame, deployed via catheter. The company has manufacturing facilities at the Irvine headquarters, as well as in Draper, Utah; Costa Rica; the Dominican Republic; Puerto Rico; and Singapore; and is building a new facility due to be completed in 2021 in Limerick, Ireland.
Learn more about Edwards Lifesciences Corp
Size
15,700 employees
Market Cap
$45.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$823.4 million
Founded
1958
5 Year Trend
+12%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
NASDAQ

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