Senior Industrial Designer

Company Description It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do  a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.

Job Description

Job Description Intuitive's Single Port platform is redefining the future of minimally invasive surgery by bringing together advanced robotics, instruments & accessories, and intelligent workflow solutions into a unified surgical ecosystem.

As a Senior Industrial Designer at Intuitive, you will help shape the next generation of robotic surgery systems while evolving and refining existing product lines. You are hands-on in every phase of the design process, transforming real user insights into meaningful design opportunities and exceptional user experiences.
As a natural collaborator and leader, you will partner closely with engineering, clinical development, human factors, user research, product management, and fellow designers to frame, define, and execute future product opportunities. Leveraging a deep understanding of user needs, ergonomics, form, proportion, color, materials, and manufacturing processes, you will translate complex technical challenges into elegant, intuitive, and manufacturable solutions.
You thrive in exploring, prototyping, and testing a wide range of ideas, using evidence and insight to identify opportunities, build alignment, and drive teams toward the right path forward. As a skilled storyteller, you create compelling narratives and presentations that clearly communicate user needs, design vision, and the value of new opportunities, helping inspire confidence and enthusiasm across stakeholders and leadership.

Essential

Job Duties Employs a user-centered design process to help teams frame problems and define opportunities

Individually leads projects, or partners with other industrial design team members on projects

Works with design leads and design managers on project planning

Distills technical and ergonomic requirements and develops a range of solutions that synthesize usability, utility, manufacturability, and desirability

Works with product development and engineering groups early in the product development lifecycle to provide user-centered thought leadership and generate conceptual product designs and opportunities

Collaborates with other UX Team members to create compelling integrated user experiences

Participates in user research, usability testing, and clinical research labs Actively participates in cross-functional team meetings and other forums and proactively drives efforts forward

Utilizes a range of 2D and 3D tools and techniques to develop and communicate design opportunities

Combines Industrial Design objectives with the objectives of our process partners

Translates and captures brand attributes in compelling physical forms

Generates functional and appearance prototypes to conceptually explore and validate design choices

Delivers manufacturable design proposals to engineering for…