Product Quality Senior Designer

Zimmer Biomet; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Wellness incentives

Performance recognition

Job summary

Zimmer Biomet is seeking a Product Quality Senior Designer to refine documentation and ensure regulatory alignment for new and existing medical devices. The role focuses on agile project management, system design, testing, and robust documentation across cross-functional teams to maintain DHF and risk management files.

You will translate user needs into engineering requirements, lead design discussions, and ensure compliance with ISO 14971 and related standards while working in a collaborative

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or science related field; biomedical engineering preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in product design/quality or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Lead and promote agile practices across scrum teams.
• Define design approach aligning with product objectives and user needs.
• Translate user needs into verifiable engineering requirements.
• Lead design discussions and technical reviews.
• Ensure usability, risk mitigation, feasibility and long-term product sustainability.
• Develop and review V&V test protocols and cases, perform/manual/automated testing.
• Collaborate with QA, Service, Compliance, and Regulatory to meet documentation requirements and maintain DHF.
• Maintain compliance with international standards and regulations.

Skills

Agile

Scrum master experience

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or science

Tools

Windchill

Codebeamer

Jira

Job description

At Zimmer Biomet, we believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation and driving our mission forward. As a global medical technology leader for nearly 100 years, a patient’s mobility is enhanced by a Zimmer Biomet product or technology every 8 seconds.

As a Zimmer Biomet team member, you will share in our commitment to providing mobility and renewed life to people around the world. To support our talent team, we focus on development opportunities, robust employee resource groups (ERGs), a flexible working environment, location specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives and a culture of recognition and performance awards. We are committed to creating an environment where every team member feels included, respected, empowered and recognised.

What You Can Expect

As a Product Quality Sr Designer you will play a key role in refining existing documentation and ensuring continued regulatory alignment to support new and existing products.

How You'll Create Impact

Project Management:

• Lead and promote agile practices across scrum teams.
• Support project planning and execution.
• Maintain roadmaps, backlogs and project tracking boards.

System Design

• Define the design approach, ensuring alignment with product objectives, user needs, clinical workflows, and system performance.
• Translate user needs into engineering level requirements that are objectively verifiable.
• Lead design discussions and technical reviews, evaluating alternatives and trade-offs.
• Ensure design decisions address usability, risk mitigation, technical feasibility, and long-term product sustainability.

System Testing

• Implement and review product verification and validation (V&V) testing, including developing test protocols and test cases.
• Perform manual and automated testing and document results accurately.

Product Documentation

• Collaborate with QA, Service, Compliance, and Regulatory teams to meet documentation requirements and ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Create, review, and maintain risk management files, including cybersecurity risks.
• Ensure all product requirements are documented and maintained.
• Ensure compliance with international standards and regulations.
• Maintain the Design History File (DHF) to be complete, accurate, and regulatory-compliant, addressing gaps proactively.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experienced with agile methodology, preferably holds a previous role as a scrum master.
• Strong analytical skills and accurate judgment-making skills.
• Ability to deal effectively with internal and external collaborators.
• Excellent communications skills; written and verbal.

Your Background

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science related field; biomedical engineering preferred.
• 5+ years of experience.

Ideally You Have a Solid Background In Medical Device Design Controls And Product Development, With Direct Experience In Regulatory Compliance And Documentation.

This Comes With The Following:

• Experience with Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
• Experience in design controls in a multi-disciplinary organization.
• Experience drafting and maintaining DHF (design history file) content, including user needs, design inputs, design outputs, traceability matrices, and risk documentation.
• Ability to support risk analysis (e.g. uFMEA, etc.) and contribute to usability planning and design mitigations.
• Familiarity with ISO 14971 is required, and IEC 62366 preferred.
• Ability to define testable requirements, support V&V protocol development, and ensure traceability in collaboration with the Product Development team.
• Experience in a regulatory environment with strict compliance.
• Experience with Windchill, Codebeamer, Jira, or similar.