Concept Research Manager
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Job Description
Strykers Digital Robotics and Enabling Technologies organization is looking for a hybrid thinkerpart designer part marketerwho thrives in the early front-end of innovation. This role bridges design strategy and upstream marketing focused on identifying white space opportunities and advancing them through the discovery and early validation process. You wont be taking ideas all the way through commercialization but rather setting the strategic vision and ensuring strong handoff to our New Product Development (NPD) teams. Join us to help shape whats nextbefore the market even knows it needs it.
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This role is hybrid with the expectation to be on-site in Weston FL 3 days a week.
What you will do:
- Lead early-stage opportunity development by combining user-centered design and marketing strategy to identify define and prioritize new innovation opportunities.
- Conduct design-thinking workshops to explore and ideate around unmet user needs.
- Create compelling visual assets including journey maps storyboards renderings and animations to communicate ideas and strategies.
- Drive initiatives through the DRE Discovery Process ensuring alignment with cross-functional partners and stakeholders.
- Build strong business cases based on desirability feasibility and viability assessments.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders - Market Insights R&D and Business Unit Leaders - to translate research findings into actionable strategies and present recommendations to executive leadership.
- Collaborate with stakeholders in Marketing R&D and the Business Unit to ensure a smooth transition from concept generation to new product development.
- Works on both hardware and digital design concepts and creates wireframes renderings prototypes and other design artifacts to communicate concepts and associated value propositions to project teams leadership and customers.
What you need:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Industrial Design Graphic Design Interaction Design UX Design Engineering or related.
- 8 years experience
- 4 years product development/design experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability to lead and facilitate design-thinking and ideation sessions.
- Strong skills in visual storytelling tools such as journey mapping storyboarding or rapid concept rendering.
- Experience working in upstream marketing or front-end innovation with cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with translating qualitative and quantitative research into actionable opportunity areas.
- Ability to craft strategic business cases for early-stage concepts.
- Clear understanding of the handoff process from discovery to new product development including stakeholder management and alignment.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
