Senior Industrial Designer

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 production