Staff Industrial Designer - ION

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Position Description

As a Staff Industrial Designer for Ion you will be responsible for defining and contributing to the design of next-generation Ion Systems and improving existing product lines.  

At Intuitive, Industrial Designers are very hands on, helping to translate real user insight into actionable design opportunities and high-performance user experiences. As a natural collaborator and leader, you will work closely with process partners (Engineering, Design, Human Factors, Clinical, User Research, and Product Management) and lead other industrial design team members on framing, defining, exploring, and executing future product opportunities.  Focusing on the physical aspects of the product experience, you’ll employ an understanding of user needs, ergonomics, form, proportion, manufacturing processes, materials, and color to transform complex requirements into elegant solutions that are highly usable, beautiful, and manufacturable. In your role you’ll craft compelling stories and presentations that illustrate new user benefits and opportunities, and prove new opportunities though employing qualitative and quantitative methods to build consensus on the right path forward.

Job Responsibilities

• Employ a user centered design process to help teams frame problems and define & explore opportunities

• Often plan and lead the work of other industrial design team members on projects in a fast-paced environment

• Help guide partners through making complex design decisions, tradeoffs, and compromises, often leveraging qualitative and quantitative data

• Participate in user and customer research, clinical labs, and usability testing, and grounds design proposals to user-centered needs and insights

• Distill technical and ergonomic requirements and develop a range of solutions that synthesize usability, utility, manufacturability, and desirability

• Collaborate with other User Experience Team members and partners to create compelling integrated user experiences

• Combine user experience objectives with the objectives of cross-functional partners to achieve mutual success

• Develop and execute manufacturable and cost-effective design solutions in collaboration with Engineering partners

• Actively participate in cross-functional team meetings and other forums and drives efforts forward with purpose

• Utilize a range of 2D and 3D tools and techniques to explore and develop designs and effectively communicate proposals

• Plan and generate functional prototypes to conceptually explore ideas, facilitate learning, and to validate design solutions

• Capture and translate brand attributes into compelling physical forms with a focus on product semantics, ergonomics, and performance in demanding use cases & environments

• Work with design managers on resource planning, scheduling, and user-centered design advocacy

The Ideal Candidate

• Employs a user-centered approach driven by a curiosity about user behaviors and an eagerness to learn in the field and in a lab environment

• Has a strong project management skillset and team leadership experience, and thrives working in a fast-paced environment

• Has an effective skills