Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist
EBR Systems, Inc.
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Job summary
EBR Systems, Inc. seeks a Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist to lead regulatory activities for advanced cardiac devices. You will guide global regulatory strategy, oversee submissions, and ensure compliance across US and international markets, enabling timely approvals and ongoing product support.
Grow with a fast-moving startup culture that values collaboration, rigorous documentation, and proactive regulatory thinking to drive patient care and market access.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering, or technical discipline required.
- Minimum 4 years of directly relevant Regulatory Affairs experience in Class III medical devices.
- Strong critical thinking and communication skills to convey regulatory guidance.
- Experience assessing post-market product or process changes.
Responsibilities
- Represents RA department in project meetings and provides regulatory guidance.
- Evaluates pathways to marketing authorization with project teams and partners.
- Develops regulatory assessments for global markets for product and manufacturing changes.
- Reviews and approves document changes, labeling, tests, risk management, and more.
- Interacts with US and international regulators to keep projects on track.
- Prepares high-quality regulatory submissions and manages timelines.
- Supports audits and drives regulatory process improvements.
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Job description
At EBR Systems, we're not imagining the future of cardiac care. We're building it. We are the team behind the world's first FDA-approved leadless left ventricular endocardial pacing device for heart failure. It's a breakthrough that's redefining what's possible, and it's just the beginning.
At EBR Systems, we're not imagining the future of cardiac care. We're building it. We are the team behind the world's first FDA-approved leadless left ventricular endocardial pacing device for heart failure. It's a breakthrough that's redefining what's possible, and it's just the beginning.
Based in Silicon Valley, we're advancing the WiSE System, a first-of-its-kind device in cardiac rhythm management. Your work here has a direct line to patients whose lives depend on what we build. We hire people who want to solve hard problems and who care about getting it right.
We invest in our people as much as our technology. Expect a collaborative, transparent culture, real career growth in a fast-moving startup, competitive compensation, equity, comprehensive benefits, and generous PTO.
If you want your work to matter, EBR is where you belong.
The Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist represents the Regulatory Affairs department in assigned project teams and provides regulatory input in accordance with established timelines to meet corporate objectives. Develops and executes sound regulatory strategies to support business goals. Oversees and ensures compliance with state, federal, and international medical device regulations and overall regulatory departmental objectives for new and existing products.
- Represents RA department in assigned project meetings and provides regulatory guidance to ensure adherence with global regulatory requirements as appropriate.
- In conjunction with project teams and international partners, evaluates possible pathways to marketing authorization and recommends pathway that appropriately weighs the probability of success with potential risks to the business. Develops and executes sound regulatory strategies to support business goals.
- Independently assesses product and manufacturing changes and develops well-justified regulatory assessments for each global market.
- Reviews and approves document change orders, advertising and promotional material, technical documents, test protocols and reports, risk management documents, labeling documents, and other documents as a key member of assigned project teams and ongoing sustaining support.
- Under management supervision, interacts with regulatory bodies in the US and/or international regions in a respectful, professional manner to ensure projects remain on track and issues are identified and resolved as expediently as possible.
- Develops, prepares, and submits high quality technical documentation/submissions for regulatory approval in the US and other international regions. Develops timelines, manages sub-team meetings relevant to the regulatory processes, and ensures timely execution.
- Prepares reports for management and develops metrics and proposals for regulatory process improvements.
- Represents the Regulatory Affairs function in internal and external audits. Serves as regulatory subject matter expert for areas related to project responsibilities. Provides support for external audit activities as needed.
- Proactively maintains up-to-date knowledge on applicable domestic and international regulatory requirements and effectively communicates requirements to project teams and management.
- Updates departmental procedures as required.
Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering, or technical discipline is required.
- Minimum 4 years of directly relevant Regulatory Affairs experience within the Class III medical device industry.
- Strong critical thinking and communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey regulatory guidance to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience assessing post-market product or process changes.
- Strong knowledge of US and international medical device regulations. Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and provide actionable guidance to cross-functional team members.
- Experience with successful submissions and strategic planning.
- Effectively uses all mediums of communication as appropriate, presents well to groups, actively listens, and continuously identifies opportunities to build communication skills.
- Actively works together with formal and informal team members to build relationships and achieve team goals.
- Effectively manages multiple assignments and prioritizes work to ensure timely completion of work within scope.
- Continuously builds functional and technical expertise and proactively applies that technical expertise in progressively broader scope.
- Focuses on results, takes initiative without direction, takes ownership for all work within scope, builds relationships and works across departments, functions, or areas of responsibility.
- Seeks to understand perspectives and interpersonal needs and expectations of others at all levels, builds self-awareness, flexes personal style appropriately, and works through conflicts constructively and appropriately.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to work in collaborative and independent work situations and environments with minimal supervision.
- Willingness and able to travel approximately 10% of the time for on-site/local work arrangement. Travel may include weekends and overnight stay.
- Required to stand, walk and sit; talk or hear; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects or controls; reach with hands and arms. Required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift up to 20 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.
- Subject to extended periods of sitting and/or standing, vision to monitor, and moderate noise levels.
$115,500 - $156,400*
- Base pay is one part of your total compensation. The salary offered will depend on several factors, including, but not limited to your experience, knowledge, skills, location, internal equity, and market alignment. Addition compensation may include bonuses and equity, along with a comprehensive benefits package.
EBR Systems, Inc. does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. Please refrain from solicitations at this time.
What if your work doesn't just support innovation—what if it changes lives?
At EBR Systems, Inc., we are not imagining that future—we are building it. We are the team behind the world's first FDA approved, leadless left ventricular endocardial pacing device for heart failure. It's a breakthrough redefining what's possible in heart care, and it's just the beginning!
We don't just create game-changing medical devices—we grow people. Patients come first in everything we do. You will be empowered to solve real problems and to do meaningful work that truly makes a difference.
If you are driven by purpose, excited by challenge, and ready to shape the future of cardiac technology, we want to hear from you.
Visit us at https://www.ebrsystemsinc.com/ to learn more—and join us in our work Empowering Physicians, Powering Hearts.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance provided at no cost for employee-only coverage
- 401(k) matching plan
- Paid Time Off – starting at 3 weeks per year
- Competitive salary with opportunities for career growth
- Employee stock options
- Life & AD&D and long term disability insurance
- Education assistance
- Voluntary commuter benefits and pet insurance
- Meaningful work and much more!
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
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