Clinical Development Engineering, Operations Lead

Intuitive • Sunnyvale, CA

3d

About The Position

The Clinical Development Engineering (CDE) Operations Lead position reports to the Sr. Manager/Director of Clinical Development Engineering on the Ion Endoluminal platform. This role collaborates with Engineering, Comparative Medicine, clinical technicians, and external suppliers to support the CDE team from ideation through delivery of new product solutions. The primary focus is to deliver business results through effective management of pre-clinical lab operations, driving efficiency through program planning, inventory management, communications, and team training. The CDE Ops Lead is expected to contribute across the full range of the CDE program, including daily operations and long-range planning, educational offerings, and recruiting/training of staff.

Requirements

• Ability to understand complex products
• Ability to work on pre-clinical models
• Experience in project coordination and managing multiple high priority projects
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and proven ability to cultivate collaboration across multiple disciplines to ensure project success
• Strong interpersonal skills: able to use tact and diplomacy to maintain effective working relationships, able to raise problems or challenges in a productive manner
• Proven success recognizing critical issues with the ability to react quickly under pressure, and drive issues to closure by providing coordinated direction.
• Creative in succeeding and applying simple solutions.
• Strong project management, planning, decision making, negotiating and change management skills
• Self-starter needing minimal supervision
• Self-assured and able to react quickly under pressure
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills required including presentation of technical content
• Minimum B.S. in technical or medical fields with project management as a bonus
• Minimum of 6 years of industry experience with 2 years of relevant experience in people or program management

Responsibilities

• Own integrated planning across staffing, lab capacity, specimen demand and forecasting for the CDE program
• Leverage expertise to define, track, and drive key lab utilization metrics and dashboards
• Develop and monitor lab forecasts to inform program budgeting and identify potential operational constraints
• Build and scale training and onboarding programs for lab technicians and CDE team members, including tools and competency tracking
• Manage capital equipment, lab inventory, service contracts, and third-party vendors to ensure operational readiness and cost efficiency
• Ensure compliance with IACUC and all applicable regulatory and institutional lab standards
• Develop and implement SOPs and workflows to improve efficiency, quality, and scalability of lab operations
• Lead cross-functional planning and execution across Comparative Medicine, CDE, and Test Engineering teams
• Oversee end-to-end logistics for pre-clinical studies, physician engagements, and CDE events
• Develop evaluation frameworks and metrics to assess program performance and drive continuous improvement
• Identify operational risks and implement mitigation and contingency strategies
• Support and operationalize pre-clinical model development activities

Benefits

• health_insurance
• dental_insurance
• vision_insurance
• 401k
• equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level