Platform Director, Medical Device R&D & Execution

Organ Recovery Systems; Itasca (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Organ Recovery Systems in Itasca, IL, seeks a Platform Director to lead a medical device product platform within the R&D organization. You will own platform strategy, execution, and lifecycle management, coordinating internal and external resources to ensure compliant, timely development and sustaining activities.

In this role, you’ll partner with Quality, Regulatory, Operations, PM, and external partners to drive decisions, plan resource needs, and deliver high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Requires strong leadership of multi-disciplinary teams across engineering, quality, regulatory, and operations.
• Experience guiding product development in FDA-regulated environments.
• Proven ability to manage complex platform roadmaps and lifecycle activities.
• Familiarity with design controls, risk management, verification/validation, and quality systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead R&D strategy, priorities, and execution for the assigned platform.
• Serve as primary technical and organizational leader for the platform.
• Collaborate with PM to establish platform plans, schedules, and resources.
• Drive critical technical decisions balancing performance, risk, cost, and time.
• Oversee platform-related design changes, remediation, and line extensions.
• Ensure compliance with quality system requirements and design control processes.
• Coordinate internal and external engineering efforts to meet objectives.
• Develop relationships with shared engineering leaders to ensure support and quality.
• Support design reviews, risk management, and regulatory submissions.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision making

Project management

Effective communication

Strategic planning

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Job description

Organ Recovery Systems in Itasca, IL, seeks a Platform Director to lead a medical device product platform within the R&D organization. You will own platform strategy, execution, and lifecycle management, coordinating internal and external resources to ensure compliant, timely development and sustaining activities.

In this role, you’ll partner with Quality, Regulatory, Operations, PM, and external partners to drive decisions, plan resource needs, and deliver high-quality outcomes.