• Senior Industrial Designer

    Stryker (Portage, MI)


    As a Senior Industrial Designer, you will collaborate with a talented team of designers, researchers, engineers, and marketers to deliver innovative, human-centered solutions for the healthcare industry. You will help drive the vision for the future of Stryker products, applying user-centered design principles to identify insights and translate them into actionable design opportunities. This role emphasizes defining the user experience and product attributes, while advocating for the end user throughout the product development process.

     

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    You must live within commuting distance of our Portage, MI office. This is a hybrid role, on-site Monday through Wednesday, with remote flexibility Thursday and Friday.

    What you will do

    + Support concept exploration to create impactful product and service solutions aligned with key market and business priorities.

    + Plan and facilitate user research activities to drive collaboration and uncover actionable insights.

    + Support cross-functional brainstorming and co-creation activities to inform product concept development.

    + Create mock-ups, visual storytelling assets, and physical prototypes for testing and user feedback.

    + Translate user needs into design inputs and independently produce system-level design solutions.

    + Define aesthetic strategy using advanced tools and methods, aligning design with brand and marketing goals.

    + Execute customer-facing activities such as voice of customer research and customer-centric design sessions.

    + Identify and lead process improvements related to design practices, systems, and product development.

     

    What you need

    Required Qualifications:

    + Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design or a related discipline

    + 2+ years of relevant industrial design experience

    Preferred Qualifications:

    + Proficiency in design tools such as Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite, and engineering CAD software

    + Strong sketching, visualization, and prototyping skills

    + Knowledge of materials, manufacturing methods, and design for production

    + Experience designing within a regulated product development environment

    + Familiarity with design and engineering principles, including human factors integration

    + Strong verbal and written communication skills

    + Experience working in medical device, healthcare, or other regulated industries

     

    Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

     

    Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.