Global Design Leader, Polyphonic AI Lab

Johnson & Johnson•Cincinnati, CA

7d•Remote

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Polyphonic team is shaping the future of digital surgery—building software products for hospitals, clinicians, researchers, and patients that deliver a connected peri-operative experience. The Polyphonic team is recruiting for a Global Design Leader to define and design a next-generation surgical data & AI platform – Polyphonic AI Lab . This platform will manage the end-to-end lifecycle of multimodal surgical data and enable teams to develop, deploy, and scale ML/AI models in regulated healthcare environments. This is a remote role available in all cities/ states within North America. While specific cities are listed in the Locations section for reference, please note that they are examples only and do not limit your application. We invite candidates from any location to apply. In this role, you will champion human-centered design and lead the user experience and interface design of Polyphonic AI Lab. You will partner with product management to define the platform’s long-term product vision and roadmap. And you will partner with engineers, data scientists, clinicians, and external technology providers to drive the delivery and expansion of a scalable product and service ecosystem.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (required) or Master’s degree (preferred) in Design or Design-related field.
10+ years of experience in product design and design management delivering platform solutions—ideally in healthcare, digital health, and/or AI-enabled product environments.
High design craft and do-muscle with proven leadership of design teams delivering enterprise-scale digital products and platforms.
Demonstrated teamwork and strong cross-functional leadership and ability to influence across technical, clinical, business, and executive teams.
Experience operating in regulated environments, with knowledge of quality, privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance expectations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate strategy into clear, actionable plans.
Ability to travel up to 25% (U.S. and international).
Above all else Friendly, thoughtful and perpetually curious
Humble to your core with a sharp emotional intelligence
Able to build trust, even when communicating a dissenting point of view

Responsibilities

Lead user and market research to uncover user needs, validate opportunities, and translate insights into new product ideas
Build a cohesive and scalable user experience vision and roadmap for AI Lab in close collaboration with AI Lab’s product management and engineering teams
Lead a team of strategists and product designers from research to ideation, prototyping, and production-ready designs across releases
Define design principles and interaction patterns for emerging multimodal UX paradigms, including AI-assisted workflows
Integrate with and contribute to our design system — components, patterns, and guidelines that are tailored to AI/ML tooling and can scale across AI Lab
Build strong networks with subject matter experts and cross-functional teams to align on design priorities and accelerate learning and change management
Ensure solutions are developed with a strong focus on quality, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI.
Stay current on trends across AI, multimodal data platforms, computer vision, digital surgery, and sensor-enabled intelligence, and incorporate insights into the product design

Benefits

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
Caregiver Leave – 10 days
Volunteer Leave – 4 days
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours