Senior Manager Industrial Design - ION

Senior Manager Industrial Design - ION

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.

Joining Intuitive means joining a team dedicated to using technology to improve patient care efficacy and decreasing invasiveness of medical procedures, with patient safety as our highest priority. We work in a high-energy, focused, small-team environment, and believe in applying first principle thinking, insight and data-driven decision making, continuous learning, and systematic planning to deliver results and achieve our goals.

Description of Position:

Intuitive's da Vinci and Ion systems push the frontier of human-machine interaction by fusing many technologies into a core product experience – technologies such as immersive 3D vision, real-time haptic interfaces and robotic instruments and accessories. Industrial Design is a key function at Intuitive that works across multiple technical disciplines to envision possibilities and synthesize needs & requirements into beautifully designed, high-performance solutions.

The Senior Manager, Industrial Design is a strategic design leader responsible for defining and driving the industrial design vision across a portfolio of products and experiences. This role leads teams of industrial designers and collaborates with adjacent design disciplines, engineering, clinical, and business partners to deliver cohesive, scalable, and high-impact product solutions.

This leader operates with a holistic, systems-level mindset, translating business strategy and user needs into a clear multi-year design vision and roadmap, while ensuring execution excellence from concept through launch. They are accountable not only for design quality, but also for the contribution of design to usability, product success, and overall business impact.

Role and Responsibilities

• Nurtures relationships with partners and stakeholders within the businesses
• Leads the design of physical products, product ecosystems, and design strategies from concept to implementation.
• Identifies, frames, and acts on opportunities to drive product design and user experience consistency, and envisions compelling new product possibilities for the business.
• Creates compelling presentations and regularly presents to business leaders and stakeholders.
• Owns and drives the industrial design strategy across a defined product portfolio, ensuring consistency and cohesion across product ecosystems.
• Defines and drives a multi-year industrial design vision aligned with business objectives and product strategy.
• Identifies and leads breakthrough innovation opportunities that shape the future of human-machine interaction.
• Translates user insights, clinical needs, and business priorities into a forward-looking design roadmap.

Business & Cross-Functional Impact

• Accountable for design contributions to product success, including usability, adoption, and customer experience outcomes.
• Partners with product, engineering, and business leadership to balance user experience, technical feasibility, and business goals.
• Drives informed trade-offs across cost, manufacturability, performance, and user experience.
• Represents industrial design in executive-level reviews and contributes to product and portfolio strategy discussions.

Design Systems & Platform Ownership

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