Work Flexibility: Hybrid
As a Senior Industrial Designer you will collaborate with a talented team of designers researchers engineers and marketers to deliver innovative human-centered solutions for the healthcare industry. You will help drive the vision for the future of Stryker products applying user-centered design principles to identify insights and translate them into actionable design opportunities. This role emphasizes defining the user experience and product attributes while advocating for the end user throughout the product development process.
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You must live within commuting distance of our Portage MI office. This is a hybrid role on-site Monday through Wednesday with remote flexibility Thursday and Friday.
What you will do
- Support concept exploration to create impactful product and service solutions aligned with key market and business priorities.
- Plan and facilitate user research activities to drive collaboration and uncover actionable insights.
- Support cross-functional brainstorming and co-creation activities to inform product concept development.
- Create mock-ups visual storytelling assets and physical prototypes for testing and user feedback.
- Translate user needs into design inputs and independently produce system-level design solutions.
- Define aesthetic strategy using advanced tools and methods aligning design with brand and marketing goals.
- Execute customer-facing activities such as voice of customer research and customer-centric design sessions.
- Identify and lead process improvements related to design practices systems and product development.
What you need
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Industrial Design or a related discipline
- 2 years of relevant industrial design experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficiency in design tools such as Rhino Adobe Creative Suite and engineering CAD software
- Strong sketching visualization and prototyping skills
- Knowledge of materials manufacturing methods and design for production
- Experience designing within a regulated product development environment
- Familiarity with design and engineering principles including human factors integration
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working in medical device healthcare or other regulated industries
Travel Percentage: 20%
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race ethnicity color religion sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin disability or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer M/F/Veteran/Disability.
Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by the employer or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information.
Required Experience:
Senior IC