Director, Hardware & Software Product Development

Expected Travel: Up to 50%

Requisition ID: 10311

 

About Teleflex Incorporated

Teleflex is a global provider of clinically effective medical technologies designed to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. We apply purpose driven innovation – a relentless pursuit of identifying unmet clinical needs – to benefit patients and healthcare providers. Our portfolio is diverse, with solutions in the fields of vascular and interventional access, interventional cardiology, surgical, anesthesia, cardiac care, interventional urology, urology, emergency medicine and respiratory care. Teleflex employees worldwide are united in the understanding that what we do every day makes a difference. For more information, please visit teleflex.com.

 

Vascular Access – Built on a history of innovation, our Arrow® brand of technically advanced vascular access devices are renowned throughout the world. Many of our vascular access products have antimicrobial and antithrombogenic protection designed to reduce vascular-related complications and include long and short dwell central venous catheters (CVC), sheath introducers, arterial lines, peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC), as well as specialty devices and an advanced vascular positioning system to facilitate precise placement of a PICC or CVC near the heart. Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

Position Summary

This leadership position is responsible for leading both new product development and sustaining project efforts for the Hardware/Software program in alignment with the Vascular Marketing team and in conjunction with Vascular Access product lines. Responsibilities include team development and leadership, technical creation, and execution management of a pipeline of new products, aligned to the strategic plan for the overall business. This role also supports the lifecycle management of current navigation technology systems. This role includes the training and development of personnel (internal and external) and activities associated with requirements planning and product development of medical devices, electronics, hardware, software, and systems (SaMD and SiMD), in accordance with medical device including regulatory and international standards. This position is responsible to ensure compliance with all quality system requirements, as well as the company’s Design Control and Product Development processes.

Principal Responsibilities

•    Lead a multi-site team of Mechanical, Electrical, and Software R&D engineers that support the development of the Vascular navigation system. 
•    At a senior leadership level, this role partners with Global Strategic Marketing on Hardware & Software strategic roadmap development and owns the execution of aligned objectives to support the business objectives. 
•    Oversee all aspects of new product development from concept through commercialization, including the use of appropriate tools, standard operating procedures, and testing approaches to build and maintain highly reliable and effective navigation systems including developing a global strategy of next generation products and services for navigation devices. Demonstrate strong technical expertise and ability to mentor others in both hardware and software development of connected devices in the healthcare environment (including cybersecurity concerns).
•    Develop intuitive product design that allows users easier and earlier adoption and use of Human Factors Engineering principles.
•    Demonstrate strong clinical understanding in the utilization of ECG technology for navigation of medical devices in the human circulatory system.
•    Project planning, system design, prototyping, hazards/risk/DFMEA/PFMEA, verification, validation, and design transfer.
•    Utilize resource team to execute system development, including 3rd party resources, with current state of the art development approaches, to efficiently prototype and refine development alternatives.
•    Ability to effectively balance new product development and current portfolio lifecycle management through assessment of risks and priority.
•    Partner with Design assurance to effectively manage requirements through testing for complex products.
•    Contribute to and make recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner.
•    Support and nurture strategic vendor relationships; recommend ways to influence vendors that align to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives.
•    Provide subject matter expertise to the business to continue to refine business processes to meet demands.
•    Partner with Program Management, Marketing, Design Assurance, Regulatory, outside resources and Global Supply Ch