Senior Interaction Designer (IxD)

Stryker is seeking a Senior Interaction Designer to support the Endoscopy Systems R&D team in developing innovative surgical visualization and operating room integration products. This role is responsible for creating intuitive user experiences and digital interfaces through user-centered design, customer research, and collaboration with healthcare professionals to deliver safe, effective, and clinically meaningful solutions. While this role carries a Senior Interaction Designer title, it is intended for early-career designers seeking to grow their expertise in product development, user-centered design, and medical technology within a collaborative in-house environment.

Portfolio Required: Demonstrated experience applying UX/UI design methodologies through a portfolio that highlights end-to-end product development, from concept generation to commercial launch.

Workplace Flexibility & Location requirements: This is a hybrid role requiring the candidate to be within commuting distance to San Jose, CA. The work schedule is structured to support flexibility, with in-office presence required 3 days/week and remote work available the rest of the week. To qualify, candidates must be able to commute to the facility as needed.

What you will do

• Engage with customers to better understand their needs, the needs of patients and the clinical environment.

• Develop concepts and prototypes for the purposes of better understanding the product needs, testing hypotheses and the establishment of product requirements.

• Create a cohesive & elegant user experience across both physical and digital touchpoints.

• Translate high-level design concepts into design descriptions and guidelines which can be used to brief the implementation R&D teams.

• Partner and communicate with technical engineers throughout development to launch.

• 5-10% travel to clinical sites will be required from time-to-time to interview end-users, demonstrate prototypes, and observe clinical procedures.

• Balance creating the ideal user experience with other constraints such as business goals and time to market.

• Lead design reviews, communicate design concepts to key stakeholders, contribute to roadmap planning, and sprint planning.

• Be the primary designer on a number of projects and guide junior designers where required.

• Manage multiple priorities and timelines at once.

What You Need

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Product Design in one of the following areas: interaction, visual communication, graphic, product, industrial, human computer interaction or related discipline

• Minimum of 2+ years of professional product design experience (physical and/or digital products), with a demonstrated track record of delivering products from concept through implementation.

• Advanced proficiency in Figma for UX/UI design, prototyping, and interaction design.

• Experience collaborating within software development and product development environments for embedded systems, including products that integrate both software and hardware components.

Preferred:

• Experience in a healthcare, medical product development environment or experience in a regulated environment.

• Experience in designing for a range of unique physical environments, such as industry, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer.

• Familiarity with iterative processes like Agile Scrum and the tools and strategies that make those processes successful.

• Demonstrated experience of Human Factors studies, Ergonomics analysis and user research.

$101,000.00 - $168,400.00 USD