Manager, R&D - A&D NPD

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

It's Time to Join Stryker!

Stryker Medical, Emergency Care is seeking a Manager, Engineering - R&D to lead a talented engineering team supporting the development of innovative medical technologies.

This is an opportunity for an engineering leader with a strongengineering background who enjoys developing people while remainingclosely connectedto technical product development. The team is composed primarily of software engineers, making softwareand electrical experienceparticularly valuable.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of technical credibility, people leadership, and product development experience and understands how to move complex engineering programs forward in a fast-paced environment while maintainingthe quality and rigor requiredfor medical devices.

What You Will Do

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing R&D engineering team, with a strong focus on software and electrical product development.

• Provide technical leadership and direction while empowering engineers to solve complex design and development challenges.

• Lead engineering activities across the product development lifecycle, helping teams translate product needs into robust technical solutions and successfully deliver products to market.

• Drive execution across complex development programs, including resource planning, staffing, schedules, budgets, technical priorities, and delivery commitments.

• Partner closely with Systems, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Program Management, and other cross-functional teams to resolve technical challenges and maintainprogrammomentum.

• Guide teams through technical tradeoffs, design decisions, risk management, troubleshooting, and problem resolution.

• Build an environment of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and strong engineering practices.

• Recruit, retain, coach, and develop engineering talent while creating meaningful growth and development opportunities for team members.

• Ensure engineering activities comply with applicable medical device regulations, quality systems, and design control requirements.

• Communicate technical strategies, program risks, resource needs, and recommendations effectively to cross-functional partners and senior leadership.

• Balance technical rigor, quality, cost, and speed to help teams execute successfully in a dynamic product-development environment.

• Partnerwith customers, clinicians, and other key stakeholders as appropriate toensure technical solutions support user and clinical needs.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field

• Minimum 8 years experience in engineering or product development

• Minimum 2 years direct people management experience

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong software or electrical engineering background and experience leading SWEE-baseddevelopment teams.

• Experience developing and launching at least one product, preferably within the medical device or healthcare industry.

• Experience leading complex engineering or product-developmentprograms and working across multiple technical and business functions.

• Demonstrated ability to lead engineers, influence cross-functional teams, resolve complex problems, and drive projects toward completion.

• Experience working within a regulated product-development environment and familiarity with medical device design controls.

• Experience leading development of complex products incorporating software, electronics, and other multidisciplinary technologies.

• Demonstrated success coaching and developing engineers at multiple experience levels.

• Experience withengineering resource planning, project budgeting, and prioritization across multiple programs.

• Experience working in fast-paced product-development environments where teams must balance schedule, cost, quality, and regulatory requirements.

• $118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual

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