Concept Research Manager

Stryker; Fort Lauderdale (FL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in medical technology is seeking a Concept Research Manager in Fort Lauderdale. This hybrid role focuses on early-stage opportunity development, combining design strategy with marketing to innovate new products in healthcare. Candidates should possess strong design-thinking abilities and a Bachelor's degree, alongside a wealth of experience in product development.

Benefits

Health benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Personalized healthcare support

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in product development/design required.
• Strong skills in visual storytelling and design thinking.
• Experience in upstream marketing and translating research to strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead opportunity development by combining design and marketing strategies.
• Conduct design-thinking workshops for unmet user needs.
• Collaborate across stakeholders to ensure alignment in product development.

Skills

Design thinking

User-centered design

Visual storytelling

Marketing strategy

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Graphic Design, or related field

Job description

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Stryker’s Digital, Robotics and Enabling Technologies organization is looking for a hybrid thinker—part designer, part marketer—who 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 won’t 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 what’s next—before 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:

• Bachelor's 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.
  
  

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing, Industrial Machinery Manufacturing, and Medical Equipment Manufacturing

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