Senior Interaction Designer (IxD)

Stryker Corporation; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Corporation is seeking a Senior Interaction Designer to join the Endoscopy Systems R&D team in California. You will craft intuitive UX for surgical visualization and OR integration, bridging physical and digital interfaces, and collaborating with healthcare professionals.

Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s in Product Design and 2+ years of product design experience, with strong Figma skills and a background in healthcare or regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Product Design or related field.
• 2+ years of professional product design experience.
• Proficiency in Figma for UX/UI design and prototyping.
• Experience in healthcare or regulated environments is preferred.
• Experience designing for physical and digital environments.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum.
• Demonstrated experience in Human Factors studies, ergonomics, and user research.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand needs.
• Develop concepts and prototypes to test hypotheses and establish requirements.
• Create cohesive user experiences across physical and digital touchpoints.
• Translate design concepts into guidelines for R&D teams.
• Collaborate with engineers throughout development to launch.
• Travel 5-10% to clinical sites to interview end-users and observe procedures.
• Balance user experience with business goals and time to market.
• Lead design reviews and contribute to roadmap and sprint planning.
• Be the primary designer on multiple projects and mentor juniors.
• Manage multiple priorities and timelines.

Skills

UX/UI design

User research

Cross-functional collaboration

Healthcare UX

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Product Design or related field

Tools

Figma

Embedded systems tools

Job description

Work Flexibility

Hybrid or Onsite 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. Ideal for a designer looking to transition from a design agency into an in-house product development 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.

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.
• Preferred Experience in designing for a range of unique physical environments, such as industry, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer.
• Preferred Familiarity with iterative processes like Agile Scrum and the tools and strategies that make those processes successful.
• Preferred Demonstrated experience of Human Factors studies, Ergonomics analysis and user research.

$101,000.00 - $168,400.00 USD Travel Percentage: 10%

Equal Opportunity Statement

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

About Stryker

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com

Work Flexibility Definitions

• Remote - Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.
• Field-based - You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field-based.
• Onsite - Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.
• Hybrid - You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co-located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.