- Robot type
- Surgical and Medical
- Location
- SunnyvaleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 17, 2026
Full-time
Senior Manager Industrial Design - ION
Job description
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.
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.
Job responsibilities
- 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.
Job requirements
- 12+ years of experience in industrial design or product development, including leadership of multidisciplinary teams and delivery of complex products to market.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, in Industrial Design.
- Experience leading industrial designers, including mentoring staff, negotiation of project scopes with stakeholders, and general project management ability.
- Proven record of design excellence and shepherding of highly usable and beautiful products to market that contain sophisticated user interactions.
- Excellent teamwork skills with natural inclination to collaborate across multiple disciplines.
- Brings holistic view. High-level of confidence and articulation of design approach and POV. Strong aesthetic and storytelling skills. Passionate for delivering the best possible experience.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.