Edwards Lifesciences · 2 weeks ago
Director, Innovation (Digital Early Incubation, Product Design, UX/UI)
USA - California – Irvine
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$170K/yr - $241K/yr
8+ years expEdwards Lifesciences is a leader in the medical technology field, and they are seeking a Director of Innovation to drive a new digital innovation portfolio. This role involves understanding clinical needs, leading UX/UI design, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop impactful digital products for patient care.
BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalMedical Device
Responsibilities
Deeply understand clinical management paradigms, anatomy, and pathophysiology to define clinical unmet needs for various patient segments along the care pathway
Actively contribute to generation of new digital product concepts, prioritization/screening of concepts, and de-risking through data-driven methods
Robustly characterize minimum viable product, define strategies for demonstrating clinical proof-of-concept for software prototypes, and understand market adoption criteria
Develop, plan and prioritize impactful projects and activities based on value proposition, clinical needs driven innovation, and feasibility of new digital products, with accountability for successful completion of all project deliverables
Partner with internal technology and business leaders to identify, develop and execute new whitespace product opportunities
Oversee the end-to-end user experience for digital products in the AI&T incubator, building a strong design culture within the organization
Lead generative UX research studies to complement voice-of-customer (VOC) market research in collaboration with the product manager
Lead UX design for developing and implementing intuitive high-fidelity user interface (UI) prototypes and iterations, to be ultimately used in the clinic/hospital setting
Collaborate with product manager (PM), technical program manager (TPM), and software engineers (SWE) on requirements, roadmaps, and execution of project deliverables
Understand and define clinical workflow and user (clinician and/or patient) interaction with the digital product, rapidly creating wireframes to outline the experience
Optimize user workflows for scalability and adaptability
Lead and execute rapid user/usability testing, synthesizing feedback into actionable design improvements for digital prototypes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent in Engineering, Science or Business Administration with 12 years of relevant experience -OR- Master's Degree or equivalent with 10 years of relevant experience -OR- Ph.D. or equivalent with 8 years of relevant experience (Degree in Industrial Design or Computer Science strongly preferred)
Strong track record of UX/UI design for new early-stage software/digital product development initiatives in the medtech domain, working in a cross-functional team environment
Experience in design strategy and design thinking
Experience designing for digital products/services spanning multiple hardware platforms (e.g. desktop, tablet, phone)
Strong interaction and visual design skills, experience using common prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, etc.)
Experience in structuring, conducting, and synthesizing UX research (qualitative and quantitative methods)
Familiarity with implantable medical devices
Experience in roles requiring knowledge of a domain of human anatomy and physiology (ideally cardiovascular)
Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
Strong presentation skills, adaptable to various audiences ranging from design reviews to executive-level forums
Preferred
Experience working with remote software engineering teams (i.e. international)
Ability to quickly evaluate solution viability, courage to fail fast and learn from mistakes
Experience with MedTech/healthcare workflows, EHR integration, clinical environments, or FDA/IEC usability standards strongly preferred
Basic understanding of front-end development (HTML/CSS) for effective collaboration
Strong and inspirational presentation skills, adaptable to various audiences ranging from design reviews to executive-level forums
Experience with data visualization
Experience with product use cases involving medical imaging (e.g. CT, MRI, echo/ultrasound) or image processing
Practical knowledge of clinical and biostatistics
Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
Data-driven but ability to make decisions based on imperfect information
Understanding of business strategy, competitive landscape, regulatory environment, and clinical data
Familiar with regulatory, compliance, and related requirements for medical device development (or SaMD)
Demonstrated ability to develop relationships to drive alignment of objectives
Proven successful organizational and project management skills
Strict attention to detail
Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Ability to represent leadership on projects within multiple areas, interfacing with project managers, team and middle to senior management
Ability to consult in a project setting within multiple areas, interfacing with low to middle management
Adhere to all EHS rules and requirements and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
Benefits
Competitive salaries
Performance-based incentives
A wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families
Company
Edwards Lifesciences
Edwards Lifesciences is a provider of science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Bernard J. Zovighian
Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Greene
Vice President, Strategy
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