R&D Director, WATCHMAN Imaging & Therapy Optimization

Additional Location(s): US-MN-Maple Grove; Canada-QC-Montreal; India-Maharashtra, Pune; US-MA-Waltham

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.           

About the Role:  

 

This is an exciting opportunity to join our WATCHMAN Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) business within our Cardiology group, as R&D Director responsible for leading the Imaging and Therapy Optimization teams. In our WATCHMAN business, we’re committed to advancing stroke prevention therapy through a one-time, minimally invasive procedure that permanently reduces stroke risk for people with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.  

 

This leader will be accountable for the evolution of safe and efficient procedural techniques, both for stand-alone WATCHMAN procedures and for the FARAWATCH™ concomitant procedure. They will also lead the team responsible for supporting the field during the limited market release of next-generation implants and delivery systems, as well as focused field response programs. 

 

Additionally, this leader will define and drive the strategic vision for advanced imaging, AI-enabled imaging solutions, and workflow optimization, ensuring these innovations deliver superior outcomes and simplify procedures as our therapies are scaled globally in a variety of procedural settings. 

 

This role collaborates closely with key functions across the development process, including Marketing, Sales, Medical Education, Program Management, Capital Equipment, and Software Development. We seek a leader who is a procedural workflow expert and can set strategy for a team focused on training clinical efficiency and delivering insights, evidence, and knowledge to drive positive patient outcomes in the cardiology lab while leveraging that expertise to shape and advance imaging solutions.  

 

The ideal candidate demonstrates a passion for innovation and collaboration, while leading a global organization in pioneering optimal procedural workflows, and advancing imaging and AI solutions. This role requires significant travel to support U.S. and international field response programs and to collaborate with development teams based in the U.S. and India. 

 

Work mode: 

 

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in one of our local offices (Maple Grove, MN, Waltham, MA, Pune, India or Montreal, Canada) at least three days per week.  

 

Relocation: 

 

Relocation assistance is available for this position at this time. 

 

Sponsorship: 

 

Boston Scientific will offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.  

  

Your responsibilities will include: 

 

• Set and communicate a strategic vision for Therapy Optimization and Imaging teams, aligning global efforts and advancing clinical workflows through innovation and efficiency.
• Lead the development and integration of advanced imaging and AI-enabled software and hardware, simplifying procedural imaging across multiple modalities (CT, fluoroscopy, ICE, TEE, and electro-anatomical mapping).
• Collaborate cross-functionally to guide Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) development and its alignment with capital equipment platforms.
• Oversee the successful development, deployment, and clinical integration of imaging capital equipment solutions.
• Drive product launches for next-generation implants, delivery systems, and workflows in partnership with Sales and Medical Education teams.
• Partner