Director of Engineering

1 DexCom Inc; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CGM tech impact

Dexcom Warriors community

Comprehensive benefits

Global growth opportunities

Career development programs

Job summary

Dexcom is seeking a San Diego-based front-end innovation leader to shape the company’s innovation portfolio and translate opportunities into clear, differentiated product concepts across sensing platforms and care settings. You will collaborate with product, design, clinical, and technology teams to ensure clinically meaningful, strategically aligned concepts ready for development.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, external partnerships, and venture-related initiatives,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree plus 5–10+ years in medical devices or digital health.
• Experience shaping front-end innovation using need-driven principles.
• Experience translating opportunities into product concepts and market-ready plans.
• Involvement with corporate venture capital or venture-related initiatives is a plus.
• Strong communication and collaboration across stakeholders in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Explore future growth opportunities across new analytes and care settings.
• Interface with cross-functional teams in product strategy, design, and feasibility.
• Define well-structured product concepts with target users and value.
• Evaluate feasibility across architecture, sensor tech, and algorithms.
• Communicate strategy, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Stay aware of external tech, care models, and market shifts.
• Develop external partnerships and corporate-VC opportunities.

Skills

Front-end innovation

Strategy & operations

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Regulated environments

Venture/VC understanding

Ambiguity navigation

Sensor technology

Prototyping & feasibility

Market differentiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or Advanced degree (PhD, MBA, MS, MD)

Job description

The Company Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health. We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Role Summary

This San Diego based individual contributor role is responsible for shaping the company’s front-end innovation function, including identifying high-value growth opportunities and translating them into clear, differentiated, and actionable product concepts and demonstrate technical and market feasibility. The role contributes to the operating model, decision framework and feasibility of innovation efforts focused on expanding the company’s sensing platform into new care settings, adjacent markets, new analytes, and disease states. This position will also play a role in Dexcom’s corporate venture capital effort. Operating at the intersection of strategy, clinical insight, product definition, design, and technology, this role helps to ensure that the organization is pursuing the right opportunities and developing high-quality concepts that are clinically meaningful, strategically aligned, technically plausible, and ready for transition into formal development.

Responsibilities

• Explore and develop future opportunities for growth, including expansion beyond current core indications, new analytes, adjacent disease states, care settings, and new product concepts.
• Interface with cross-functional teams across the organization in product, market strategy, clinical and medical strategy, product concept leadership, product design, prototyping and technical feasibility.
• Ensure prioritized opportunities are translated into well-defined product concepts with clear target users, use cases, clinical and customer value, differentiated positioning, and concept-level requirements.
• Integrate subject matter expertise across system architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, system integration, sensor technology, and algorithm technology to evaluate feasibility, resolve key technical uncertainties, and inform concept selection.
• Communicate innovation strategy, portfolio health, key risks, and major recommendations to key stakeholders in support of build / buy / partner optionality and decision-making.
• Maintain awareness of relevant external developments, including emerging technologies, evolving care models, competitor activity, clinical trends, and market shifts.
• Identify, evaluate, and help shape external innovation opportunities that are strategically aligned with Dexcom’s long-term growth priorities, technology roadmap, and platform expansion objectives, including the targeting of suitable corporate venture capital investment opportunities.
• Network, research and establish relationships with entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, and key opinion leaders to identify promising technology companies.
• Manage communication, action items, follow up, and meeting planning with companies and investors.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree or Advanced degree (highly preferred) PHD, MBA, MS, MD in bioengineering, engineering, life sciences, business, or a related field plus 5-10+ years of experience in medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, or related healthcare technology industries.
• Demonstrated experience shaping front-end innovation efforts using need-driven innovation principles, preferably including formal training or experience with Stanford Biodesign or similar methodologies.
• Combination of strategy and operational product leadership experience, including advancing new medical device or healthcare technology concepts from opportunity identification through product development and market introduction.
• Experience in innovation leadership, product strategy, front-end product development, new market development, platform expansion strategy, and evaluation of external innovation opportunities, partnerships, or venture-related initiatives.
• Experience in corporate venture capital or venture capital in assessing external technologies, startups, venture opportunities, strategic partnerships, or adjacent innovation ecosystems to inform corporate strategy and long-term growth decisions.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams in regulated environments and working with complex products that combine clinical value, technology, user experience, and market strategy.
• Strong communication, presentation, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence key stakeholders and lead through ambiguity.
• Additional Experience: Familiarity with continuous sensing platforms, wearables, chronic disease management, or adjacent monitoring technologies.
• Experience with advanced technology, feasibility, or early prototyping teams that bridge research, systems engineering, sensor technology, algorithms, and downstream product development.
• Proven ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and create clarity from uncertainty.
• Strong business and market acumen, including the ability to assess strategic fit, commercial potential, and competitive differentiation.

Benefits

• A front row seat to life changing CGM technology.
• Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community.
• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
• An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.

Travel Required: 15-25%

Education and Experience: Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of industry experience 9+ years of successful management experience in relevant industry

Salary: $190,100.00 - $316,800.00 #DexcomUS

The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Dexcom’s AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at [e-mail]. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at [e-mail].

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Dexcom Talent Acquisition at [e-mail].