Senior Manager, R&D - Solutions & Innovation; Endoscopy Sustaining

Senior Manager, R&D
- Solutions & Innovation (Endoscopy Sustaining)

Onsite Location(s):
Marlborough, MA, US, 01752

Additional Location(s): US-MA-Marlborough

Diversity
- Innovation
- Caring
- Global Collaboration
- Winning Spirit
- High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role:

The Senior Manager, R&D – Solutions & Innovation (Endoscopy Sustaining) role leads a highly experienced team focused on solving the most complex technical challenges across the Endoscopy portfolio and transforming technical insights into meaningful product improvements, design enhancements, and portfolio value creation.

Over the past 3 years, Sustaining R&D execution has transitioned to a global capability across Marlborough, Costa Rica, Ireland and India creating a strong global delivery model. This Marlborough-based team is designed to complement that model, serving as a high-leverage group focused on advanced problem solving, cross-portfolio technical leadership, and the development of product enhancements that deliver new clinical and commercial value.

In the near term, this team will engage the most critical and complex issues impacting performance across the portfolio. Through that work, they will enable the longer-term objective of building a robust pipeline of iterative innovations, design improvements, and market-facing product enhancements.

This leader will direct a team of senior, principal, and fellow-level engineers to operate across manufacturing sites, driving both immediate impact and sustained innovation capability.

Key responsibilities will include:

Enterprise Problem Solving & Technical Leadership

• Lead resolution of the most complex, high-impact technical challenges across the portfolio, using these engagements to deepen system-level understanding and drive broader organizational learning
• Establish and embed best-in-class, data-driven problem-solving approaches that can scale across the global Sustaining organization
• Partner with global teams to address critical issues while strengthening long-term technical robustness and design performance

Innovation & Product Enhancement

• Translate insights from system performance, field experience, and technical challenges into actionable product improvements
• Identify and drive iterative design changes and enhancements that can be commercialized
• Partner with Marketing and upstream R&D to ensure alignment on value creation opportunities
• Build and mature a pipeline of product and design improvements that support long-term portfolio growth

Technical Leadership & Talent Leverage

• Lead a highly experienced team (Principal/Fellow-level + emerging SMEs), maximizing impact over scale
• Create an environment where senior technical experts can operate at full effectiveness across multiple programs
• Develop next-generation technical leaders through exposure to complex, high-visibility challenges
• Ensure strong technical rigor, mentorship, and knowledge sharing

Cross-Functional & Global Influence

• Operate as a central integrator across R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams
• Influence decision making at senior levels by translating technical issues into clear business impact
• Drive alignment on priorities, resources, and trade-offs across sites and functions

Systems, Tools, and Ways of Working

• Define and deploy best practices for problem solving, decision making, and prioritization
• Improve organizational response to emerging risks through better visibility and structured execution
• Contribute to the evolution of Sustaining R&D operating models and toolsets

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Biomedical, or related); advanced degree preferred
• 10+ years of experience in medical device or regulated industry
• 5+ years of direct people leadership, including senior technical staff
• Demonstrated success…