Job Description Summary

As a Staff Engineer within BD’s Urology & Critical Care (UCC) team, you will play a pivotal role in identifying unmet customer and user needs across urological and critical care spaces. Using the Stanford Biodesign methodology, you will collaborate with clinicians, engineers, and business leaders to translate insights into high-impact innovation opportunities. Your work will directly influence the development of next-generation solutions that improve patient outcomes in areas such as incontinence management and infection prevention across care settings.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

Key Responsibilities:

Identify focus areas for critical innovation projects

• Conduct clinical observations and stakeholder interviews to understand the problem space. Identify, draft and refine needs statements accordingly.

• Scope, quantify and prioritize needs to identify high-value opportunities across diverse patient populations (leveraging structured rubrics to evaluate needs, quantitative surveys, and /or health economic value calculation).

• Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-regional teams to incorporate global perspectives and develop strong knowledge of our global customer base.

• Contribute to development and evolution of strategic innovation roadmaps.

Support insight generation:

• Analyze research data and facilitate cross-functional interpretations to support insight generation.

• Set up the context from triangulated insights for early-stage concept development and filtering based on feasibility, differentiation, and market fit

• Contributing to establishing an insight hub (clinical, commercial, user, etc.) for continuous design considerations.

• Conduct field visits and attend conferences to establish a deep understanding of customers, and bring insights back to the UCC business.

Change management and communication

• Provide regular updates to key stakeholders to bring awareness and build engagement in innovation practices and progress.

• Host innovation training events to empower UCC’s innovation engine.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering
• Minimum of 3 years of extensive training in innovation methods (Biodesign, Design Thinking, Jobs to be Done, Design for Six Sigma)
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in healthcare innovation, preferably in urology, critical care, or infection prevention
• 3 years of prior experience in formal innovation and new product development processes
• Ability to travel 20% domestically and internationally

Preffered Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Science or Engineering
• Commercial or clinical experience
• Specific experience in urology, critical care, or infection prevention fields
• Demonstrated ability to develop deep, rigorous analytical analysis for growth opportunity identification
• Proven track record of independently identifying, prioritizing, and advocating for growth opportunities
• Excellent communication skills across technical and clinical stakeholders
• Strategic thinking with ability to anticipate future trends and develop long-term plans
• Patient-centric mindset in decision-making
• Initiative-taking with a test-and-learn approach
• Curiosity, empathy, and collaborative mindset

At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance. Remote or field-based positions will have different workplace arrangements which will be indicated in the job posting.

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